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Volume 15, Number 5--6, May, 1989J. Irvine and B. R. Martin International comparisons of scientific performance revisited . . . . . . . . . 369--392
H.-J. Czerwon Scientometric indicators for a specialty in theoretical high-energy physics: Monte Carlo methods in lattice field theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--20 E. Bruckner and W. Ebeling and A. Scharnhorst The application of evolution models in scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--41 Hildrun Kretschmer and Renate Müller A contribution to the dispute on the Ortega Hypothesis: Connection between publication rate and stratification of scientists, tested by various methods 43--56 M. Bonitz Journal ranking by different parameter. Part I. Collectivity and selective collectivity: Two ranking parameters reflecting the structure of a journal network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--73 M. Bonitz Journal ranking by different parameters. Part II. Individual or collective: Which parameters are best suited for journal ranking? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93 Hildrun Kretschmer Pinski's citation based measures of research interactivity and the application of a complex structure measure to journal systems . . . . . . . 95--122 M. Peschel and W. Mende and K. F. Albrecht The evolon growth model: Possible scientometrical evaluations . . . . . . 123--136 W. Meske and M. C. Fernández De Alaiza Structure and development of the scientific and technological potential in the Republic of Cuba . . . . . . . . 137--155 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 157--168 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--172
A. Schubert and W. Glänzel and T. Braun Scientometric datafiles supplementary indicators on 96 countries 1981--1985 173--177 M. Kunz Can the lognormal distribution be rehabilitated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--191 L. O. Nordstrom ``Bradford's law'' and the relationship between ecology and biogeography . . . . 193--203 F. Spagnolo Brazilian scientists' publications and mainstream science: Some policy implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--218 H. Grupp The concept of entropy in scientometrics and innovation research . . . . . . . . 219--239 J. F. A. Spangenberg and W. Buijink and W. Alfenaar Some incentives and constraints of scientific performance in departments of economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--268 J. F. A. Spangenberg and B. Breemhaar and F. Nijhuis and W. Alfenaar Some incentives and contraints of scientific performance in economics . . 269--279 L. Leydesdorff Relations among science indicators or more generally among anything one might wish to count about texts . . . . . . . 281--307 Hiroaki Urata Information flows among academic disciplines in Japan . . . . . . . . . . 309--319 W. S. Lyon The dreams of reason. The computer and the rise of the science of complexity 321--322
Bluma C. Peritz A Bradford distribution for bibliometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--329 R. Over The scholarly impact of articles published by men and women in psychology journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340 B. M. Gupta and S. C. Sharma and N. N. Mehrotra Subject-based publication activity indicators for medicinal & aromatic plants research . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--361 M. M. S. Karki Environmental science research in India: An analysis of publications . . . . . . 363--373 A. Y. Mychko-Megrin Estimates of the annual total number of titles on medicine and its disciplines and scientific productivity of physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--388 J. F. A. Spangenberg and F. J. N. Nijhuis Human information processing in science 389--407 A. P. Trofimenko Scientometric analysis of the topical content of scientific research and its particularities . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--435 F. A. Ehikhamenor Productivity of physical scientists in Nigerian Universities in relation to communication variables . . . . . . . . 437--444 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 445--463
A. Schubert and T. Braun International collaboration in the sciences 1981--1985 . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 B. Klai\'c Scientometric analysis of the research activities of chemists from the ``Rugjer Boskovi\'c'' Institute (Yugoslavia), 1976--1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--24 C. Y. K. So Openness index and affinity index: Two new citation indicators . . . . . . . . 25--34 R. Todorov and M. Winterhager Mapping Australian geophysics: A co-heading analysis . . . . . . . . . . 35--56 A. Uzun A quantitative analysis of Turkish publication output in physics between 1938--1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--73 Miao Qihao and Zhang Zuozhi Anatomy of JETRO's overseas technology monitoring: Bibliometrical and content analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--90 L. L. Hargens and J. R. Herting Neglected considerations in the analysis of agreement among journal referees . . 91--106 G. Stevens The flow of information between languages: An application of Price's method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126 J.-P. Courtial and B. Michelet A mathematical model of development in a research field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--141 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--149
Alexandra Shaw Comments on Bertram C. Brookes, recipient of the 1989 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155 R. Todorov Comments on Jan Vlachy, recipient of the 1989 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . 157--158 T. Braun and W. Glänzel A topographical approach to world publication output and performance in the sciences, 1981--1985 . . . . . . . . 159--165 Terttu Luukkonen Publication structures and accumulative advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--184 R. Plomp The significance of the number of highly cited papers as an indicator of scientific prolificacy . . . . . . . . . 185--197 Bluma C. Peritz The citation impact of funded and unfunded research in economics . . . . . 199--206 T. J. Hogan A measure of accounting faculties and doctoral programs . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221 Liwen Qiu and Jean Tague Complete or incomplete data sets. The Groos droop investigated . . . . . . . . 223--237 F. W. Lancaster and Sun-Yoon Kim Lee and Catalina Diluvio Does place of publication influence citation behavior? . . . . . . . . . . . 239--244 N. Konrad and D. Wahl Science, technology and development indicators for third world countries --- Possibilities for analysis and grouping 245--270 L. Leydesdorff Relations among science indicators or more generally among anything one might wish to count about texts . . . . . . . 271--296 L. Leydesdorff The prediction of science indicators using information theory . . . . . . . . 297--324 R. Rousseau Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
H.-D. Daniel and R. Fisch Introduction: Quantitative science and technology indicators studies in the Federal Republic of Germany . . . . . . 327--329 D. Fichtner Competition in the university system of the Federal Republic of Germany . . . . 331--335 K. Alewell Criteria for performance profiles of departments and universities . . . . . . 337--347 H.-D. Daniel and R. Fisch Research performance evaluation in the German university sector . . . . . . . . 349--361 E. Giese Rankings of universities in the FRG . . 363--375 E. Rau and T. Hummel Rankings of economics departments in the Federal Republic of Germany . . . . . . 377--384 U. Backes-Gellner and D. Sadowski Organizational implementation of bibliometric indicators . . . . . . . . 385--395 J. Baumert and J. Naumann and P. M. Roeder Reputation --- A hard-currency medium of interchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--408 T. Finkenstaedt Measuring research performance in the humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--417 I. Hartmann and F. Neidhardt Peer review at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft . . . . . . . . . 419--425 H.-J. Block and W. Krull What are the consequences? Reflections on the impact of evaluations conducted by a science policy advisory body . . . 427--437 F. Schlie-Roosen Quantitative indicators for federal government research and technology policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--445 H. Grupp On the supplementary functions of science and technology indicators . . . 447--472 K. Faust Early identification of technological advances on the basis of patent data . . 473--480 P. Weingart and R. Sehringer and M. Winterhager Which reality do we measure? . . . . . . 481--493 F. R. Pfetsch The measurement of a country's scientific and technological potential 495--504 H.-R. Spiegel Initiatives for the promotion of science of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--512 T. Braun and W. Glänzel United Germany: The new scientific superpower? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--521 Wolfgang Glänzel Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--524
T. Braun Foreword to the Michael Moravcsik memorial issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7 T. Braun and A. Schubert The landscape of national performances in the sciences, 1981--1985 . . . . . . 9--17 E. Garfield and H. Small Michael J. Moravcsik: Multidimensional scholar and hero of third world science 19--23 W. E. Snizek and K. Oehler and N. C. Mullins Textual and nontextual characteristics of scientific papers: Neglected science indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--35 M. T. Beck and V. Gáspár Scientometric evaluation of the scientific performance at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary . . . . . 37--54 Szarina Bt. Abdullah and F. W. Lancaster The contribution of scientists to the popular literature, their role as expert witnesses, and their influence on their peers: A case study in the field of acid rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 V. V. Nalimov Meeting the XXIth century . . . . . . . 65--69 Virginia Trimble Long-term careers of astronomers with doctoral degrees from prestigious vs. non-prestigious universities . . . . . . 71--77 M. M. Qurashi Publication-rate and size of two prolific research groups in Departments of Inorganic Chemistry at Dacca University (1944--1965) and Zoology at Karachi University (1966--84) . . . . . 79--92 L. Egghe The exact place of Zipf's and Pareto's Law amongst the classical informetric laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--106 M. Bonitz The impact of behavioral principles on the design of the system of scientific communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--111 A. J. Meadows Quantitative study of factors affecting the selection and presentation of scientific material to the general public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119 Bluma C. Peritz The citation impact of letters to the editor; The case of Lancet . . . . . . . 121--129 Nevenka Pravdic and Vesna Oluic-Vukovic Distribution of scientific productivity: Ambiguities in the assignment of author rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144 P. Vinkler Possible causes of differences in information impact of journals from different subfields . . . . . . . . . . 145--161 R. Todorov and M. Winterhager An overview of Mike Moravcsik's publication activity in physics . . . . 163--172 G. Archibald and M. B. Line The size and growth of serial literature 1950--1987, in terms of the number of articles per serial . . . . . . . . . . 173--196 U. N. Singh and S. Arunachalam Publication and citation patterns in the literature of liquid crystals with special reference to the contribution of India, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--220 D. Lindsey The relationship between performance indicators for academic research and funding: Developing a measure of return on investment in science . . . . . . . . 221--234 H. P. F. Peters and A. F. J. Van Raan Structuring scientific activities by co-author analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 235--255 Miranda Lee Pao On the relationship of funding and research publications . . . . . . . . . 257--281 H. Eto Science revolution and Ortega Hypothesis in developing countries . . . . . . . . 283--295 I. N. Sengupta and Lalita Kumari Bibliometric analysis of AIDS literature 297--315 A. Schubert and W. Glänzel Publication dynamics: Models and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--331
B. R. Martin The bibliometric assessment of UK scientific performance: a reply to Braun, Glänzel and Schubert . . . . . . . 333--357 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert The bibliometric assessment of UK scientific performance --- some comments on Martin's ``reply'' . . . . . . . . . 359--362 L. Leydesdorff On the ``scientometric decline'' of British science. One additional graph in reply to Ben Martin . . . . . . . . . . 363--367 T. Kealey Government-funded academic science is a consumer good, not a producer good: A comparative reassessment of Britain's scientific and technological achievements since 1794 and a comment on the bibliometry of B. Martin and J. Irvine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--394
J. E. Cohen Size, age and productivity of scientific and technical research groups . . . . . 395--416 Elisabeth L. Logan and W. M. Shaw, Jr. A bibliometric analysis of collaboration in a medical specialty . . . . . . . . . 417--426 J. M. Richards, Jr. Years cited: An alternative measure of scientific accomplishment . . . . . . . 427--438 A. F. J. van Raan Fractal geometry of information space as represented by co-citation clustering 439--449 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science: a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 451--457
M. Yitzhaki and D. Ben-Tamar Number of references in biochemistry and other fields; A case study of the \booktitleJournal of Biological Chemistry throughout 1910--1985 . . . . 3--22 A. Pouris Identifying areas of strength in South African technology . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35 M. Bridgstock The quality of single and multiple authored papers; An unresolved problem 37--48 J.-L. Sikorav The utility of scientific papers . . . . 49--68 M. Le Marc and J.-P. Courtial and E. Drozda Senkovska and J.-P. Petard and Y. Py The dynamics of research in the psychology of work from 1973 to 1987: From the study of companies to the study of professions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--86 J. Budd and C. D. Hurt Superstring theory: Information transfer in an emerging field . . . . . . . . . . 87--98 Valentina A. Markusova and B. C. Griffith Highly cited Soviet journals in the physical and life sciences: A study of the function of journals . . . . . . . . 99--113 S. Cesaratto and S. Mangano and G. Sirilli The innovative behaviour of Italian firms: A survey on technological innovation and R&D . . . . . . . . . . . 115--141 P. Vinkler Magic triangle for three relative impact indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
K. C. Garg and Praveen Sharma Solar power research: A scientometric study of world literature . . . . . . . 147--157 H. Englisch Monotonous structure measures for social groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169 Jialong Zhu and A. J. Meadows and G. Mason Citations and departmental research ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179 Q. L. Burrell The Bradford distribution and the Gini index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194 G. Zachos Research output evaluation of two University Departments in Greece with the use of bibliometric indicators . . . 195--221 G. Lewison and P. Cunningham Bibliometric studies for the evaluation of trans-national research . . . . . . . 223--244 Susan Bonzi and H. W. Snyder Motivations for citation: A comparison of self citation and citation to others 245--254
L. Massimo The use of indicators in the R&D evaluation activity of the European communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262 B. Bobe Trends in the use of R&D output indicators in EC programme evaluation 263--282 P. M. D. Collins and M. J. Ringe Europeanization of the market for contract research . . . . . . . . . . . 283--289 H. F. Moed and R. E. De Bruin and A. J. Nederhof and R. J. W. Tijssen International scientific co-operation and awareness within the European community: Problems and perspectives . . 291--311 F. Narin and K. Stevens and Edith S. Whitlow Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--323 M. Dahl and S. Lahlou Measurement of network effects from the EC SCIENCE/STIMULATION programmes . . . 325--342 U. Teichler Evaluation of the EC training fellowship programme based on a fellows' questionnaire survey . . . . . . . . . . 343--365 T. Higgins Indicators of European scientific cohesion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--381 G. Lewison The scientific output of the EC's less favoured regions . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--402 L. J. Tsipouri Effects of EC R&D policy on Greece: Some thoughts in view of the Stride Programme 403--416 H. Grupp and U. Schmoch and U. Kuntze Patents as potential indicators of the utility of EC research programmes . . . 417--445 J. P. Courtial and M. Callon Indicators for the identification of strategic themes within a research programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--457 H. Parthey and W. Schuetze Distribution of publications as an indicator for the evaluation of scientific programs . . . . . . . . . . 459--464 R. Barré Indicators of the emerging European S & T space: Results of the 1st International Conference on European S & T Indicators 465--469
W. A. Turner An introduction to scientometrics in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8 E. Davoust and L. D. Schmadel A study of the publishing activity of astronomers since 1969 . . . . . . . . . 9--39 Sylvaine le Minor and Paulette Dostatni A bibliometric study of the publications of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) . . 41--63 M. Jagodzinski-Sigogneau and S. Bauin and J. P. Courtial and H. Feillet Scientific innovation in bibliographical databases: A comparative study of the Science Citation Index and the Pascal database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--82 H. Dou and L. Quoniam and Parina Hassanaly The scientific dynamics of a city: A study of chemistry in Marseille from 1981 to the present . . . . . . . . . . 83--93 R. Barré Clustering research fields for macro-strategic analysis: A comparative specialization approach . . . . . . . . 95--112 S. Bauin and B. Michelet and M. G. Schweighoffer and P. Vermeulin Using bibliometrics in strategic analysis: ``understanding chemical reactions'' at the CNRS . . . . . . . . 113--137 W. A. Turner and F. Rojouan Evaluating input/output relationships in a regional research network using co-word analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--154 M. Callon and J. P. Courtial and F. Laville Co-word analysis as a tool for describing the network of interactions between basic and technological research: The case of polymer chemistry 155--205 P. Mauguin Using a contracts database for evaluating the dynamics of a technological program: The case of the European `non-nuclear energy' program 207--228 M. Zitt A simple method for dynamic scientometrics using lexical analysis 229--252
R. Gillett Pitfalls in assessing research performance by grant income . . . . . . 253--263 C. Jaschek The size of the astronomical community 265--282 I. N. Sengupta and R. G. Henzler Citedness and uncitedness of cancer articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--296 V. Cano and N. C. Lind Citation life cycles of ten citation classics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--312 D. Lindsey Precision in the manuscript review process: Hargens and Herting revisited 313--325
J. Frame Modelling national technological capacity with patent indicators . . . . 327--339 M. Pianta and Daniele Archibugi Specialization and size of scientific activities: A bibliometric analysis of advanced countries . . . . . . . . . . . 341--358 S. Yamazaki Academic origin of the first professors in American medical schools before the civil war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--368 B. Balmer and B. R. Martin Who's doing what in human genome research? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--377
A. Schubert and T. Braun Three scientometric études on developing countries as a tribute to Michael Moravcsik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19 R. Meneghini Brazilian production in biochemistry. The question of international versus domestic publication . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 B. K. Sen and K. Shailendra Evaluation of recent scientific research output by a bibliometric method . . . . 31--46 Judith Licea de Arenas Partial assessment of Mexican health sciences research 1982--1986 . . . . . . 47--55 J. Gaillard Use of publication lists to study scientific production and strategies of scientists in developing countries . . . 57--73 H. Delgado and Jane M. Russell Impact of studies published in the international literature by scientists at the National University of Mexico . . 75--90 J. E. Rabinovich Publications of scientists of developing countries in international journals: Are they channels to the international circuit for colleagues that only publish in national journals? . . . . . . . . . 91--103 M. Krauskopf Scientometric indicators as a means to assess the performance of state supported universities in developing countries: The Chilean case . . . . . . 105--121 C. A. Macías-Chapula Patterns of scientific communication among Latin American countries, in the field of medical education . . . . . . . 123--135 M. T. Fernández and A. Agis and A. Martín and A. Cabrero and I. Gómez Cooperative research projects between the Spanish National Research Council and Latin--American institutions . . . . 137--148 Sandra M. Thomas The evaluation of plant biomass research: A case study of the problems inherent in bibliometric indicators . . 149--167 J. Roseboom and P. G. Pardey Measuring the development of national agricultural research systems . . . . . 169--190 I. Adamson Access and retrieval of information as coordinates of scientific development and achievement in Nigeria . . . . . . . 191--199 Gretchen Whitney Access to third world science in international scientific and technical bibliographic databases . . . . . . . . 201--219 Rosa Sancho Misjudgments and shortcomings in the measurement of scientific activities in less developed countries . . . . . . . . 221--233 Y. Chatelin and R. Arvanitis Representing scientific activity by structural indicators: The case of Côte d'Ivoire 1884--1968 . . . . . . . . . . 235--247 J. El Alami and J. C. Dore and J. F. Miquel International scientific collaboration in Arab countries . . . . . . . . . . . 249--263
Tibor Braun Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265 M. Roche and Y. Freites Rise and twilight of the Venezuelan scientific community . . . . . . . . . . 267--289 B. K. Sen and V. V. Lakshmi Indian periodicals in the science citation index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--318 R. Todorov Displaying content of scientific journals: A co-heading analysis . . . . 319--334 S. D. Haitun The problem of indicator-latent relationship in metric models. Part 1 335--351 R. Barré Clustering research fields for macro-strategic analysis: A comparitive specialization approach . . . . . . . . 353--353
C. S. L. Keay Physics, psychology and respectability 355--359 Yu. V. Granovsky and T. N. Luibimova and T. I. Murashova and V. D. Myatlev Information-based evaluation of the quality of doctoral theses . . . . . . . 361--376 C. Jaschek The ``visibility'' of West European astronomical research . . . . . . . . . 377--393 Ashok Jain and K. C. Garg Laser research in India: Scientometric study and model projections . . . . . . 395--415 J. Law and J. Whittaker Mapping acidification research: A test of the co-word method . . . . . . . . . 417--461
A. Villagrá Rubio Scientific production of Spanish universities in the fields of Social Sciences and Language . . . . . . . . . 3--19 Concepción Ortega and L. M. Plaza and M. J. Martin and M. C. Urdin Spanish scientific and technical journals. State of the art . . . . . . . 21--42 F. Cano and S. Julián Some indicators in Spanish scientific production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59 Aida Méndez and P. Salvador The application of scientometric indicators to the Spanish Scientific Research Council . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78 P. González Blasco Socio-economic indicators on research and development in Spain . . . . . . . . 79--93 Angel Pestaña Spanish performance in life sciences. A comparative appraisal of the scientific production of Spain and five other European countries in 1989 . . . . . . . 95--114 Rosa Sancho and A. Pastor and E. Criado Bibliometric approach to research performance in the field of refractory materials used in iron and steelmaking processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--136 Aida Méndez and Isabel Gómez Collaborative research in Spain in the field of pharmacy and pharmacology . . . 137--147 L. Ferreiro and S. Ugena Citation mechanics in Journals covered by the journal citation reports . . . . 149--162 M. Bordons and F. García-Jover and S. Barrigon Bibliometric analysis of publications of Spanish pharmacologists in the SCI (1984--89) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--177 Miranda Lee Pao On the relationship of funding and research publications . . . . . . . . . 179--179
T. Braun and I. Gómez and A. Méndez and A. Schubert International co-authorship patterns in physics and its subfields, 1981--1985 181--200 R. Rousseau and Qiaoqiao Zhang Zipf's data on the frequency of Chinese words revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--220 S. D. Haitun The problem of indicator-latent relationship in metric models. Part 2 221--235 D. H. Hall The science-industry interface: Correlation of time series of indicators and their spectra, and growth models in the nuclear fuels industry . . . . . . . 237--280 W. Lemoine Productivity patterns of men and women scientists in Venezuela . . . . . . . . 281--295 Terttu Luukkonen Is scientists' publishing behaviour reward seeking? . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--319 L. Leydesdorff Irreversibilites in science and technology networks: An empirical and analytical approach . . . . . . . . . . 321--357 H. H. Garrison and S. S. Herman and J. A. Lipton Measuring characteristics of scientific research: A comparison of bibliographic and survey data . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--370 Ben R. Martin `Big history' for big science? Critical review of history of CERN . . . . . . . 371--371
N. Narvaez-Berthelemot and L. P. Frigoletto and J. F. Miquel International scientific collaboration in Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--392 A. J. Nederhof and E. C. M. Noyons Assessment of the international standing of university departments' research: A comparison of bibliometric methods . . . 393--404 Katharine S. Thomas The development of eponymy; A case study of the Southern blot . . . . . . . . . . 405--417 F. W. Lancaster and R. H. Burger and B. M. Rauchfuss Use of literature by East European scientists: What influences place of publication of sources cited? . . . . . 419--439 H. A. Abt Publication practices in various sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--447 W. Lemoine The frequency distribution of research papers and patents according to sex. The case of CSIR. India . . . . . . . . . . 449--469 C. D. Hurt and J. M. Budd Modeling the literature of superstring theory: A case of fast literature . . . 471--480
L. Egghe and I. K. Ravichandra Rao Classification of growth models based on growth rates and its applications . . . 5--46 Marie-Jeanne Leemans and Marleen Maes and R. Rousseau and Christel Ruts The negative binomial distribution as a trend distribution for circulation data in Flemish public libraries . . . . . . 47--57 P. Reyniers Facts and figures on interlibrary lending in Dutch-speaking Belgium in 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--76 R. Rousseau Category theory and informetrics: Information production processes . . . . 77--87 J. van Borm From interlibrary lending statistics to clearinghouse: The use of ILL statistics in Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100 E. de Smet Information behaviour in a scientific-technical environment: A survey with innovation engineers . . . . 101--113 J. C. J. Dierick Determining the Lotka parameters by sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--148 M. Dorban and A. F. Vandevenne Bibliometric analysis of bibliographic behaviours in economic sciences . . . . 149--165 L. Egghe Generalized transfer principles in econometrics and informetrics . . . . . 167--191 R. Philips Pseudo-metrics on bibliographic entities 193--199 F. Provost and P. Nieuwenhuysen Measuring overlap of data bases in water supply and sanitation using sampling and the binomial probability distribution 201--209
T. Braun and Hajnalka Maczelka and A. Schubert Scientometric indicators datafiles. Summary statistics and trendlines of major geopolitical regions, 1980--1989 211--217 W. Glänzel and M. Winterhager International collaboration of three east European countries with Germany in the sciences, 1980--1989 . . . . . . . . 219--227 H. Chu Communication between Chinese and non-Chinese scientists in the discovery of high-Tc superconductor: I. The formal perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--252 H. Chu Communication between Chinese and non-Chinese scientists in the discovery of high-T$_c$ superconductors: II. The informal perspective . . . . . . . . . . 253--277 Ch. Huot and L. Quoniam and H. Dou A new method for analysing downloaded data for strategic decision . . . . . . 279--294 L. Leydesdorff A validation study of ``Leximappe'' . . 295--312 J.-P. Courtial Comments on Leydesdorff's'a validation study of Leximappe' . . . . . . . . . . 313--316 L. Leydesdorff A reply to Courtial's comments . . . . . 317--319 Y. Okubo and J. F. Miquel and L. Frigoletto and J. C. Doré Structure of international collaboration in science: Typology of countries through multivariate techniques using a link indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--351 Geraint Johnes and Jill Johnes Apples and oranges: The aggregation problem in publications analysis . . . . 353--365 Hajnalka Maczelka and S. Zsindely All well if starts well? Citation infancy of recently launched chemistry journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--372
W. Glänzel and A. Schubert Some facts and figures on highly cited papers in the sciences, 1981--1985 . . . 373--380 G. Czapski and A. Frenkel and D. Kohn and A. Shoham Cooperation between Israeli and foreign researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--400 A. K. Formann Academic personnel selection: Description and prognosis of the decisions made by the committee for the selection of candidates for a full professorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--414 A. Pouris Economic sanctions and R&D . . . . . . . 415--424 Maria Bordons and S. Barrigón Bibliometric analysis of publications of Spanish pharmacologists in the SCI (1984--89). Part II . . . . . . . . . . 425--446 F. Anderson and R. Dalpé A profile of Canadian coal and petroleum research communities . . . . . . . . . . 447--463 Hildrun Kretschmer Call for papers Fourth International Conference on Bibliometrics, Informetrics, and Scientometrics . . . . 465--465
H. Small Macro-level changes in the structure of co-citation clusters: 1983--1989 . . . . 5--20 A. Schubert and T. Braun Reference standards for citation based assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35 M. Bonitz and E. Bruckner and Andrea Scharnhorst The Science Strategy Index . . . . . . . 37--50 H.-J. Czerwon and F. Havemann Influence of publication languages on the citation rate of scientific articles: A case study of East German journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63 R. E. De Bruin and H. F. Moed Delimitation of scientific subfields using cognitive words from corporate addresses in scientific publications . . 65--80 W. Glänzel and A. Schubert A characterization of scientometric distributions based on harmonic means 81--96 Hildrun Kretschmer Measurement of social stratification. A contribution to the dispute on the ORTEGA hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113 Th. N. Van Leeuwen and R. J. W. Tijssen Assessing multidisciplinary areas of science and technology: A synthetic bibliometric study of Dutch nuclear energy research . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--133 L. Leydesdorff and Susan E. Cozzens The delineation of specialties in terms of journals using the dynamic journal set of the SCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--156 Aida Méndez and Isabel Gómez and Maria Bordons Some indicators for assessing research performance without citations . . . . . 157--167 A. F. J. Van Raan and R. J. W. Tijssen The neural net of neural network research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--192 U. Schmoch Tracing the knowledge transfer from science to technology as reflected in patent indicators . . . . . . . . . . . 193--211 P. Vinkler Research contribution, authorship and team cooperativeness . . . . . . . . . . 213--230
J. P. Courtial and M. Callon and A. Sigogneau The use of patent titles for identifying the topics of invention and forecasting trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--242 H. Bonheim The reception of Polish philology abroad 243--253 S. S. M. Hussain and D. A. Nunez British otorhinolaryngological research. An analysis of publication trends . . . 255--262 L. Liming and L. Lihua Scientific publication activities of 32 countries --- Zipf--Pareto distribution 263--273 Gretchen Whitney Patterns of authorship in major bibliographic databases: The European region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--292 J. M. G. Caraça and C. Marciano da Silva and L. Massimo R&D indicators and socio-economic cohesion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--309
Anonymous Volume contents . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--361 Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--367 Anonymous Geographical & corporate index . . . . . 367--376 Anonymous Permuted keyword index . . . . . . . . . 376--484
S. Hemlin Scientific quality in the eyes of the scientist. A questionnaire study . . . . 3--18 M. M. Qurashi Dependence of publication-rate on size of some university groups and departments in U.K. and Greece in comparison with N.C.I., USA . . . . . . 19--38 A. J. Nederhof and H. F. Moed Modeling multinational publication: Development of an on-line fractionation approach to measure national scientific output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--52 B. L. Milman and Yu. A. Gavrilova Analysis of citation and co-citation in chemical engineering . . . . . . . . . . 53--74 S. R. Coleman Bradford distributions of social-science bibliographies varying in definitional homogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91 Martha A. Harsanyi and S. P. Harter Ecclesiastes effects . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 P. Vinkler Percentage Patent Representation (PPR) Bilateral Patent Balance (BPB) and Patent Dominancy (PD) indicators characterizing international patenting relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
F. Saavedra and Mary Rose Mackenzie and R. Pessot and M. Krauskopf Size and ageing of the scientific community in Chile . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117 A. Cambrosio and C. Limoges and J. P. Courtial and F. Laville Historical scientometrics? Mapping over 70 years of biological safety research with coword analysis . . . . . . . . . . 119--143 K. C. Garg and Praveen Sharma and Lalita Sharma Bradford's Law in relation to the evolution of a field. A case study of solar power research . . . . . . . . . . 145--156 A. J. Nederhof and R. F. Meijer and H. F. Moed and A. F. J. van Raan Research performance indicators for university departments: A study of an agricultural university . . . . . . . . 157--178 P. Pichappan Identification of mainstream journals of science speciality: A method using the discipline-contribution score . . . . . 179--193 L. Egghe On the influence of growth on obsolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--214 P. S. Nagpaul and Neeraj Pant Cross-national assessment of specialization patterns in chemistry . . 215--235
B. Martens and T. Saretzki Conferences and courses on biotechnology. Describing scientific communication by exploratory methods . . 237--260 C. L. Mulford and Lisa Waldner-Haugrud and Hemchandra Gajbhiye Variables associated with agricultural scientists' work alienation and publication productivity . . . . . . . . 261--282 J. J. Steinberg The state of biomedical radiation research as demonstrated by publications, funding and manpower activity: An analytical example of utilizing on-line medical informatics 283--294 C. Sylvain Canadian research activity in aquaculture: A bibliometric analysis . . 295--316 G. Lewison and A. Fawcett-Jones and C. Kessler Latin American scientific output 1986--91 and international co-authorship patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
R. Rousseau Measuring concentration: Sampling design issues, as illustrated by the case of perfectly stratified samples . . . . . . 3--14 Terttu Luukkonen and R. J. W. Tijssen and O. Persson and G. Sivertsen The measurement of international scientific collaboration . . . . . . . . 15--36 Y. Okubo Comments on some of the statements in the article: The measurement of international scientific collaboration by T. Luukkonen, R. J. W. Tijsen, O. Persson, G. Sivertsen . . . . . . . . . 37--39 Y. Yuthavong and K. Phornsadja and A. Chungcharoen and T. O. Eisemon and C. H. Davis Communication strategies in tissue culture and seed research in Thailand 41--60 L. A. Rogers and J. Anderson A new approach to defining a multidisciplinary field of science: The case of cardiovascular biology . . . . . 61--77 A. Uzun and A. Menard and M. E. Özel Citation status of Turkish physics publications in foreign journals: A global analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--87 E. J. Rinia and C. De Lange and H. F. Moed Measuring national output in physics: Delimitation problems . . . . . . . . . 89--110 R. J. W. Tijssen A scientometric cognitive study of neural network research: Expert mental maps versus bibliometric maps . . . . . 111--136
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert Scientometric indicators datafiles . . . 137--150 R. P. Norris Authorship patterns in CJNR: 1970--1991 151--158 G. S. Souza and E. R. Cruz and T. R. Quirino The measurement and assessment of quality in Agricultural Research Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--182 Ye-Sho Chen and P. Pete Chong and Yueguo Tong Theoretical foundation of the 80/20 rule 183--204 J. Willems and E. Woudstra The use by biologists and engineers of non-specialist information sources and its relation to their social involvement 205--216 G. Lewison The contribution of European community less favoured region research outputs to economic and social cohesion . . . . . . 217--229
Anonymous András Schubert wins the 1993 Derek John de Solla Price award . . . . . . . . . . 233--235 D. H. Hall The science-industry interface in the petroleum industry: Correlation of time series of indicators and their spectra, and growth modelling . . . . . . . . . . 237--286 D. K. Gupta Collaborative research trend in exploration geophysics . . . . . . . . . 287--296 Rosa Sancho and G. Bernal and L. Gálvez Approach to the Cuban scientific activity by using publication based quantitative indicators (1985--1989) . . 297--312 R. Senter, Jr. Factors in American State Government spending on research and development . . 313--327 J. Maclean and Carmela Janagap The publication productivity of international agricultural research centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348 F. H. Herbstein Measuring ``publications output'' and ``publications impact'' of faculty members of a university chemistry department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--373 Eleonora P. Giorgi Long term analysis of citation counts at the micro-level . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--386 Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin Age and the Nobel Prize revisited . . . 387--399 A. Pouris Economies of scale in science & technology agencies . . . . . . . . . . 401--406
M. Bonitz The multidimensional space of Scientometrics; The Derek John de Solla Price Awards 1984--1993 . . . . . . . . 3--14 R. Wagner-Döbler The frequency distribution of legal decision citations in the German jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26 B. R. Martin British science in the 1980s --- Has the relative decline continued? . . . . . . 27--56 H. Abt Report on the manuscript entitled ``British science in the 1980s --- Has the relative decline continued?'' . . . 57--58 S. R. Coleman Disciplinary variables that affect the shape of Bradford's bibliograph . . . . 59--81 H. Grupp and Sybille Hinze International orientation, efficiency of and regard for research in East and West Germany: A bibliometric investigation of aspects of technology genesis in the United Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--113 H. P. F. Peters and A. F. J. van Raan A bibliometric profile of top-scientists a case study in chemical engineering . . 115--136 S. Teitel Patents, R&D expenditures, country size, and per-capita income: An international comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--159 S. Kyvik and I. Marheim Larsen International contact and research performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 A. Schubert Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--177
Shigeaki Yamazaki Research activities in life sciences in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190 A. M. Nasir and H. Hassan and K. A. Hamid and S. S. Agha Bibliometric evaluation of agricultural literature published in Malaysia . . . . 191--217 J. Qin An investigation of research collaboration in the sciences through the philosophical transactions 1901--1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--238 J. de Haan and F. L. Leeuw and C. Remery Accumulation of advantage and disadvantage in research groups . . . . 239--251 Y.-K. Chung Bradford distribution and core authors in classification systems literature . . 253--269 J. F. Miquel and Y. Okubo Structure of international collaboration in science-part II: Comparisons of profiles in countries using a link indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--297
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and Hajnalka Maczelka and A. Schubert World science in the eighties. National performances in publication output and citation impact, 1985--1989 versus 1980--1984. Part I. All science fields combined, physics, and chemistry . . . . 299--334 S. Reguant and J. Casadell\`a English as lingua franca in geological scientific publications. A bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351 Sybille Hinze Bibliographical cartography of an emerging interdisciplinary discipline: The case of bioelectronics . . . . . . . 353--376 R. Plomp The highly cited papers of professors as an indicator of a research group's scientific performance . . . . . . . . . 377--393
S. Arunachalam and R. Srinivasan and V. Raman International collaboration in science: Participation by the Asian giants . . . 7--22 Marie-Ang\`ele de Looze The application of scientometric tools to the analysis of a sector in plant biotechnologies: Nitrogen fixation . . . 23--34 L. Egghe Bridging the gaps: Conceptual discussions on informetrics . . . . . . 35--47 W. Glänzel and U. Schoepflin A stochastic model for the ageing of scientific literature . . . . . . . . . 49--64 G. Van Hooydonk and R. Gevaert and G. Milis-Proost and H. Van De Sompel and K. Debackere A bibliotheconomic analysis of the impact factors of scientific disciplines 65--81 P. Jeannin and J. Devillard Towards a demographic approach to scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 83--95 C. A. Macias-Chapula Non-SCI subject visibility of the Latin American scientific production in the health field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104 O. Makovetskaya and V. Bernadsky Scientometric indicators for identification of technology system life cycle phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--116 B. Martens and T. Saretzki Quantitative analysis of thematic structures in the field of biotechnology: A study on the basis of conference data . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128 E. Matricciani Shannon's entropy as a measure of the ``life'' of the literature of a discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145 F. Narin Patent bibliometrics . . . . . . . . . . 147--155 E. C. M. Noyons and A. F. J. van Raan Bibliometric cartography of scientific and technological developments of an R&D field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--173 Bluma C. Peritz On the heuristic value of scientific publications and their design; A citation analysis of some clinical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 Floor Rikken and R. Vos Searching for adverse drug reactions at the margin of scientific fields . . . . 187--199 Adelaida Román and Aida Méndez The Spanish transition to democracy seen through the Spanish database isoc . . . 201--211 R. Rousseau Double exponential models for first-citation processes . . . . . . . . 213--227 H. Small A SCI--Map case study: Building a map of AIDS research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--241 T. Söderqvist and A. M. Silverstein Studying leadership and subdisciplinary structure of scientific disciplines . . 243--258 Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Modelling and forecasting contact time as a measure of item informativeness . . 259--267 W. A. Turner and A. Lelu and A. Georgel Geode: Optimizing data flow representation techniques in a network information system . . . . . . . . . . . 269--281 P. Vinkler The origin and features of information referenced in pharmaceutical patents . . 283--302 R. Wagner-Döbler and J. Berg Regularity and irregularity in the development of scientific disciplines: The case of mathematical logic . . . . . 303--319 M. Yitzhaki Relation of title length of journal articles to number of authors . . . . . 321--332 M. Zitt and E. Bassecoulard Development of a method for detection and trend analysis of research fronts built by lexical or cocitation analysis 333--351 A. Bookstein Towards a multi-disciplinary Bradford Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--361 Hildrun Kretschmer Coauthorship networks of invisible colleges and institutionalized communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--369
Tibor Braun Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373 W. Glänzel and U. Schoepflin Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond? . . . 375--384 R. Rousseau Similarities between informetrics and econometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--387 L. Egghe Little science, big science \ldots and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--392 Aida Méndez Thinking about scientometrics . . . . . 393--395 A. Pouris Is scientometrics in a crisis? . . . . . 397--399 H. Dou In which business are we? . . . . . . . 401--406 Jane M. Russell Back to the future for informetrics . . 407--410 A. Schubert Little scientometrics, big scientometrics --- and beyond . . . . . 411--413 Bluma C. Peritz Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 415--418 R. Barre Do not look for scapegoats! Link bibliometrics to social sciences and address societal needs . . . . . . . . . 419--424 M. Krauskopff Epistemometria, a term contributing to express the meaning and potential methodologies of scientometrics in Spanish speaking countries . . . . . . . 425--428 H. Eto Quality assessment of science information research and service . . . . 429--432 L. Leydesdorff and P. Wouters Crisis or critique? . . . . . . . . . . 433--437 W. E. McGrath Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 439--442 J. F. Miquel Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 443--445 A. J. Meadows Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 447--449 M. Bonitz Promoting scientometrics by international schools . . . . . . . . . 451--453 A. Bookstein Scientometrics: New opportunities . . . 455--460 R. Todorov Facts or imposed names on facts? . . . . 461--464 I. K. Ravichandra Rao Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 465--469 W. A. Turner What's in an $R$: Info$r$ metrics or infometrics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--480 Terttu Luukkonen Are we longing for the golden era lost or for the one to come? . . . . . . . . 481--485 B. C. Griffith Little scientometrics, little scientometrics, little scientometrics, little scientometrics, \ldots and so on and so on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--493 P. Vinkler Words and indicators. As scientometrics stands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--504 Q. L. Burrell Scientostochastics? . . . . . . . . . . 505--509 V. S. Lazarev Notion of a document: A center of ``gravity attraction'' for getting metricians together . . . . . . . . . . 511--516 C. le Pair Puberty or mid-life crisis . . . . . . . 517--520 J. Vlachý Scientometrics --- What to do? . . . . . 521--527 A. F. J. van Raan Little scientometrics, big scientometrics \ldots and beyond . . . . 529--531 Hildrun Kretschmer Quantity and quality in `science of science' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--537 L. Leydesdorff Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--541
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and Hajnalka Maczelka and A. Schubert World science in the eighties. National performances in publication output and citation impact, 1985--1989 versus 1980--1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--30 J. S. Katz Geographical proximity and scientific collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43 B. L. Milman Individual co-citation clusters as nuclei of complete and dynamic informetric models of scientific and technological areas . . . . . . . . . . 45--57 L. Leydesdorff The generation of aggregated journal--journal citation maps on the basis of the CD--ROM version of the Science Citation Index . . . . . . . . . 59--84 W. Saurer and R. Weinberger Planetary Nebulae: Some statistics on a continuously growing field and its contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95 P. S. Nagpaul and Lalita Sharma Research output and transnational cooperation in physics subfields: A multidimensional analysis . . . . . . . 97--122 M. Bonitz Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 123--123
G. Lewison Publications from the European community's biotechnology action programme (BAP): Multinationality, acknowledgement of support, and citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--142 S. Kyvik Popular science publishing . . . . . . . 143--153 P. C. Van Der Kruit A comparison of astronomy in fifteen member countries of the organisation for economic co-operation and development 155--172 J. P. Courtial and T. Cahlik and M. Callon A model for social interaction between cognition and action through a key-word simulation of knowledge growth . . . . . 173--192 P. Wouters and L. Leydesdorff Has Price's dream come true: Is scientometrics a hard science? . . . . . 193--222
P. Vinkler Model of manifested communication through publications . . . . . . . . . . 223--239 Zhang Haiqi A bibliometric study on Medicine Chinese Traditional in Medline database . . . . 241--250 J. P. Courtial A coword analysis of scientometrics . . 251--260 M. Leclerc and J. Gagné International scientific cooperation: The continentalization of science . . . 261--292 Katarina Prpi\'c The socio-cognitive frameworks of scientific productivity . . . . . . . . 293--311
O. Exner and M. Kunz Citation histories of related papers in the field of chemical correlation analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 P. S. Nagpaul Contribution of Indian universities to the mainstream scientific literature: A bibliometric assessment . . . . . . . . 11--36 A. J. Nederhof and R. F. Meijer Development of bibliometric indicators for utility of research to users in society: Measurement of external knowledge transfer via publications in trade journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--48 A. M. Colman and Debra Dhillon and B. Coulthard A bibliometric evaluation of the research performance of British university politics departments: Publications in leading journals . . . . 49--66 L. B. Dizon and M. S. M. Sadorra Patterns of publication by the staff of an international fisheries research center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75 R. Simonetti and D. Archibugi and R. Evangelista Product and process innovations: How are they defined? How are they quantified? 77--89 M. T. Beck Guardians of science. Fairness and reliability of peer-review system . . . 91--92
C. Nicolini and S. Vakula and M. Italo Balla and E. Gandini Can the assignment of university chairs be automated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107 P. Vinkler Some aspects of the evaluation of scientific and related performances of individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--116 W. E. Snizek Some observations on the use of bibliometric indicators in the assignment of university chairs . . . . 117--120 A. T. Balaban Can the assignment of university chairs be automated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122 R. Wagner-Döbler Were has the cumulative advantage gone? Some observations about the frequency distribution of scientific productivity, of duration of scientific participation, and of speed of publication . . . . . . 123--132 B. Klai\'c Analysis of the scientific productivity of researchers from the Republic of Croatia for the period 1990--1992 . . . 133--152 Katherine W. McCain The structure of biotechnology R&D . . . 153--175 M. H. Heine The characterisation of text corpora using an input/output schema for citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194 K. Buchholz Criteria for the analysis of scientific quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--218 Zora J. Sampson Authorship counts . . . . . . . . . . . 219--226
A. I. Pudovkin and Elizabeth A. Fuseler Indices of journal citation relatedness and citation relationships among aquatic biology journals . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--236 Jinming Liu and Sizhu Shu Statistical analysis of astronomical papers of China during 1986--1990 . . . 237--245 Y. K. Duplenko and S. G. Burchinsky Computer-aided clustering of citation networks as a tool of mapping of research trends in biomedicine . . . . . 247--258 A. C. Michalos Prices and impact factors of interdisciplinary social science journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--261 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science in the eighties indexes to ``current bibliographies'' 1--17 . . . . . . . . . 263--367
B. Godin and R. S. Barker and M. Landry Besides academic publications: Which sectors compete, or are there competitors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12 P. Pichappan A dual refinement of journal self-citation measures . . . . . . . . . 13--21 J. M. Campanario Using neural networks to study networks of scientific journals . . . . . . . . . 23--40 M. G. Suraud and L. Quoniam and H. Rostaing and H. Dou On the significance of data bases keywords for a large scale bibliometric investigation in fundamental physics . . 41--63 Tuen-Yu Lau Chinese communication studies: A citation analysis of Chinese communication research in English-language journals . . . . . . . 65--91 R. J. W. Tijssen and Th. N. Van Leeuwen On generalising scientometric journal mapping beyond ISI's journal and citation databases . . . . . . . . . . . 93--116 H. Herbertz Does it pay to cooperate? A bibliometric case study in molecular biology . . . . 117--122 S. Yamazaki Refereeing system of 29 life science journals preferred by Japanese scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
T. Braun and M. Brocken and W. Glänzel and E. Rinia and A. Schubert ``Hyphenation'' of databases in building scientometric indicators . . . . . . . . 131--148 J. F. Miquel and T. Ojasoo and Y. Okubo and A. Paul and J. C. Doré World science in 18 disciplinary areas: Comparative evaluation of the publication patterns of 48 countries over the period 1981--1992 . . . . . . . 149--167 P. S. Nagpaul Quasi-quantitative measures of research performance: An assessment of construct validity and reliability . . . . . . . . 169--185 B. M. Gupta and Lalita Sharma and C. R. Karisiddappa Modelling the growth of papers in a scientific specialty . . . . . . . . . . 187--201 P. R. Thomas Size effects in the assessment of discipline-contribution scores: An example from the social sciences . . . . 203--220 A. K. Romanov and A. I. Terekhov The mathematical modelling of the scientific personnel movement taking into account the productivity factor . . 221--231 V. L. Kalyane and S. S. Munnolli Scientometric portrait of T. S. West . . 233--256 M. P. Burton The use of citations matrices to group journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--262
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and H. Grupp The scientometric weight of 50 nations in 27 science areas, 1989--1993. Part I. All fields combined, mathematics, engineering, chemistry and physics . . . 263--293 Dhruv Raina and B. M. Gupta and Rohit Kandhari Collaboration in Indian physics: A case study of the macro and micro parametrization of sub-disciplines (1800--1950) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--314 M. M. S. Karki and K. C. Garg Industrial research in India as viewed through Research & Industry . . . . . . . 315--328 Ming-Yueh Tsay The impact of the concept of post-industrial society and information society: A citation analysis study . . . 329--350 O. Persson and M. Beckmann Locating the network of interacting authors in scientific specialties . . . 351--366 F. Rikken and H. A. L. Kiers and R. Vos Mapping the dynamics of adverse drug reactions in subsequent time periods using INDSCAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380 H. F. Moed and R. E. De Bruin and Th. N. Van Leeuwen New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--422 J. M. Campanario Using neural networks to study networks of scientific journals . . . . . . . . . 423--423
M. Krauskopf and María Inés Vera and Vania Krauskopf and A. Welljams-Dorof A citationist perspective on science in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1981--1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25 L. A. Quesada-Allué and D. S. Gitlin Scientific output in Argentina 1966--1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35 N. Narvaez-Berthelemot An index to measure the international collaboration of developing countries based on the participation of national institutions: The case of Latin America 37--44 Jane M. Russell The increasing role of international cooperation in science and technology research in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61 C. A. Macias-Chapula Primary health care in Mexico: A ``non-ISI'' bibliometric analysis . . . 63--71 J.-B. Meyer and J. Charum and J. Granés and Y. Chatelin Is it opened or closed? Colombian science on the move . . . . . . . . . . 73--86 M. Krauskopf and María Inés Vera and R. Albertini Assessment of a university's scientific capabilities and profile: The case of the faculty of biological sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--100 J. A. Guimarães and Marta C. Humann Training of human resources in science and technology in Brazil: The importance of a vigorous post-graduate program and its impact on the development of the country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--119 V. Cano Characteristics of the publishing infrastructure of peripheral countries: A comparison of periodical publications from Latin America with periodicals from the US and the UK . . . . . . . . . . . 121--138 Hebe Vessuri Recent strategies for adding value to scientific journals in Latin America . . 139--161
Anonymous Robert K. Merton and Anthony F. J. van Raan win the 1995 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I--II Manfred Bonitz Comments on Robert K. Merton, recipient of the 1995 Derek de Solla Price Award III--VI Cornelius Le Pair Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1995 Derek de Solla Price Award to prof. Dr. A. F. J. Van Raan at the ISSI Conference held at River Forest, Illinois, on June 10, 1995 VII--X R. N. Kostoff Federal research impact assessment: Axioms, approaches, applications . . . . 163--206 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and H. Grupp The scientometric weight of 50 nations in 27 science areas, 1989--1993. Part II. Life sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 207--237 Stéphane Baldi and L. L. Hargens Reassessing the $N$-rays reference network: The role of self citations and negative citations . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253 Sally Jo Cunningham and D. Bocock Obsolescence of computing literature . . 255--262 P. S. Nagpaul and Lalita Sharma Science in the eighties: A typology of countries based on inter-field priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--283 L. Egghe and I. K. Ravichandra Rao and R. Rousseau On the influence of production on utilization functions: Obsolescence or increased use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--315
I. Gabolde Opening address . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--320 Carlos Robles Piquer Mep Invited speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323 L. Bach and Núria Conde-Molist and M.-J. Ledoux and Mireille Matt and Véronique Schaeffer Evaluation of the economic effects of Brite--Euram programmes on the European industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--349 S. Cozzens U.S. Research assessment: Recent developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--362 K. M. Cunion UK Government Departments experience of RT&D programme evaluation and methodology 363--374 Kinji Gonda and Fumihiko Kakizaki Research, technology and development evaluation; developments in Japan . . . 375--389 Elisabeth Helander Evaluation activities in the Nordic countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--400 P. Hills Prest's experience of evaluation . . . . 401--414 R. Johnston Research impact quantification . . . . . 415--426 A. Kameoka Evaluating research projects at Toshiba. Designing a conceptual framework of evaluating research and technology development (RTD) programs . . . . . . . 427--439 W. Krull The Max Planck experience of evaluation 441--450 D. Kyriakou Macroeconomic aspects of S\slash T programme evaluation . . . . . . . . . . 451--459 S. Kuhlmann German Government Department's experience of RT & D programme evaluation and methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--471 P. Larédo Structural effects of EC RT&D programmes 473--487 F. Narin Patents as indicators for the evaluation of industrial research output . . . . . 489--496 Claire Nauwelaers and A. Reid Methodologies for the evaluation of regional innovation potential . . . . . 497--511 J. O'Herlihy RT & D, regional development and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--518 C. Rinaldini Experience on research evaluation at the joint research centre of the European commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--525 W. A. Smith Evaluating research, technology and development in Canadian industry: Meeting the challenges of industrial innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--539
Sally Hodges and B. Hodges and A. J. Meadows and Micheline Beaulieu and D. Law The use of an algorithmic approach for the assessment of research quality . . . 3--13 G. Melin The networking university . . . . . . . 15--31 Jacqueline Leta and L. De Meis A profile of science in Brazil . . . . . 33--44 G. Davis and Pamela Royle A comparison of Australian university output using journal impact factors . . 45--58 Ketty Rodríguez and J. A. Moreiro The growth and development of research in the field of ecology . . . . . . . . 59--70 D. Urban Quantitative measurement of public opinions on new technologies . . . . . . 71--92 Marie-Hél\`ene Magri and Aline Solari The SCI Journal Citation Reports: A potential tool for studying journals? 93--117 S. Schwartz and J. Lopez Hellin Measuring the impact of scientific publications. The case of the biomedical sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--132 J. S. Katz and D. M. Hicks A systemic view of British science . . . 133--154 A. Schubert \booktitleScientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1990 . . . . . . . . 155--163
W. Glänzel and S. Katz and H. Moed and U. Schoepflin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166 W. Glänzel The need for standards in bibliometric research and technology . . . . . . . . 167--176 H. F. Moed Differences in the construction of sci based bibliometric indicators among various producers: A first over view . . 177--191 J. S. Katz Bibliometric standards: Personal experience and lessons learned . . . . . 193--197 P. Bourke and Linda Butler Standards issues in a national bibliometric database: The Australian case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--207 M. Zitt and N. Teixeira Science macro-indicators: some aspects of Ost experience . . . . . . . . . . . 209--222 Isabel Gómez and Maria Bordons and M. T. Fernández and Aida Méndez Coping with the problem of subject classification diversity . . . . . . . . 223--235 P. Vinkler Some practical aspects of the standardization of scientometric indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--245 R. Arvanitis and J. M. Russell and A. Ma. Rosas Experiences with the national citation reports database for measuring national performance: The case of Mexico . . . . 247--255 W. E. McGrath The unit of analysis (objects of study) in bibliometrics and scientometrics . . 257--264 I. K. Ravichandra Rao Methodological and conceptual questions of bibliometric standards . . . . . . . 265--270 V. S. Lazarev On chaos in bibliometric terminology . . 271--277 I. F. Aguillo Increasing the between-year stability of the impact factor in the Science Citation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282 Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich The standard impact factor as an evaluation tool of science fields and scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
W. Glänzel A bibliometric approach to social sciences. National research performances in 6 selected social science areas, 1990--1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--307 P. Nieminen Type of empirical research reports as an explanatory factor in citation performance of psychiatric research . . 309--320 J. Berg and R. Wagner-Döbler A multidimensional analysis of scientific dynamics. Part I. Case studies of mathematical logic in the 20th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--346 L. H. Breimer and D. D. Breimer The CED-le DEC: Common European doctorate, or doctorate Européen commune or dissertations on the Internet . . . . 347--353 Per O. Seglen Quantification of scientific article contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366 R. Meneghini The key role of collaborative work in the growth of Brazilian science in the last ten years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--373 P. Vinkler Relationships between the rate of scientific development and citations. The chance for citedness model . . . . . 375--386 Berenika M. Winclawska Polish Sociology Citation Index (principles for creation and the first results) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--391 A. Schubert \booktitleScientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1991 . . . . . . . . 393--399
Liang Li-Ming and Zhao Hong-Zhou and Wang Yuan and Wu Yi-Shan Distribution of major scientific and technological achievements in terms of age group-Weibull distribution . . . . . 3--18 B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Author productivity patterns in theoretical population genetics (1900--1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--41 R. P. Dickenson The level of research in advanced composite materials in the countries of the former Soviet Union . . . . . . . . 43--57 B. Godin and M.-P. Ippersiel Scientific collaboration at the regional level: The case of a small country . . . 59--68 R. Kundra Investigation of collaborative research trends in Indian medical sciences: 1900--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80 E. Jiménez-Contreras and L. Ferreiro-Aláez Publishing abroad: Fair trade or short sell for non-English-speaking authors? A Spanish study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95 L. Egghe and R. Rousseau Average and global impact of a set of journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 A. R. Rajeswari Indian patent statistics --- an analysis 109--130 A. Schubert \booktitleScientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1992 . . . . . . . . 131--140 S. L. Sangam News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142 I. Gabolde Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
T. Braun and A. Schubert Indicators of research output in the sciences from 5 Central European countries, 1990--1994 . . . . . . . . . 145--165 Marie-Angele De Looze and R. Coronini and Monique Legentil and P. Jeannin and Marie-Hélene Magri Determining the core of journals of a research centre: The example of researchers from the Department of Rural Economy and Sociology of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183 Katarina Prpi\'c Characteristics and determinants of eminent scientists' productivity . . . . 185--206 E. Galante and C. Sala R&D evaluation at the Italian National Research Council: The agricultural sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--222 P. Vinkler Model for quantitative selection of relative scientometric impact indicators 223--236 Virginia Trimble Productivity and impact of large optical telescopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246 T. Braun and W. Glänzel International collaboration: Will it be keeping alive East European research? 247--254 L. H. Breimer Authorship on and usage of published papers in current Swedish biomedical theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258 A. Uzun A bibliometric analysis of physics publications from Middle Eastern countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--269 M. Bonitz The challenge of scientometrics: The development, measurement and self-organization of scientific communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272 A. Schubert \booktitleScientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1993 . . . . . . . . 273--280
R. N. Kostoff Performance measures for government-sponsored research: Overview and background . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292 F. Narin and Kimberly S. Hamilton Bibliometric performance measures . . . 293--310 A. Schubert and T. Braun Cross-field normalization of scientometric indicators . . . . . . . . 311--324 A. N. Link Economic performance measures for evaluating government-sponsored research 325--342 B. R. Martin The use of multiple indicators in the assessment of basic research . . . . . . 343--362 G. Melin and O. Persson Studying research collaboration using co-authorships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--377 E. Geisler Integrated figure of merit of public sector research evaluation . . . . . . . 379--395 A. F. J. van Raan Advanced bibliometric methods as quantitative core of peer review based evaluation and foresight exercises . . . 397--420 R. Miller and A. Manseau Bibliometric indicators and the competitive environment of R&D laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433 M. H. MacRoberts and Barbara R. MacRoberts Problems of citation analysis . . . . . 435--444 E. A. Brown Conforming the government R&D function with the requirements of the government performance and results act . . . . . . 445--470 Anonymous Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471
J. M. Campanario Using Citation Classics to study the incidence of serendipity in scientific discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24 J. Six and Martha Cecilia Bustamante Bibliometric analysis of publications in experimental particle physics on cosmic rays and with accelerators . . . . . . . 25--37 F. Hjortgaard Christensen and P. Ingwersen Online citation analysis . . . . . . . . 39--62 A. L. Rivas and D. Deshler and R. D. Colle and R. N. González and F. W. Quimby Indicators of disciplinary differentiation: Interdisciplinary linkages and adoption rate of biological innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--86 C. B. Chidambara Raj Publications, cost and a proposition . . 87--103 H. F. Moed and Th. N. Van Leeuwen and J. Reedijk A critical analysis of the journal impact factors of \booktitleAngewandte Chemie and the \booktitleJournal of the American Chemical Society inaccuracies in published impact factors based on overall citations only . . . . . . . . . 105--116 J. C. Korevaar H. F. Moed Validation of bibliometric indicators in the field of mathematics . . . . . . . . 117--130 L. M. Plaza and M. J. Martín and J. Rey Scientific relations between Spain and Central--Eastern European countries for the period 1982--1992 . . . . . . . . . 131--142 S. Papadopoulos Evaluation of industrial research . . . 143--151 O. Persson and G. Melin Equalization, growth and integration of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--157 A. Uzun and M. E. Özel Publication patterns of Turkish astronomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169 L. H. Breimer Age, sex and standards of current doctoral theses by Swedish medical graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--176 Zhang Haiqi Research performance in key medical universities in China observed from the scientific productivity . . . . . . . . 177--190
A. F. J. Van Raan Introduction to the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators . . . 191--193 W. Glänzel and H. J. Czerwon A new methodological approach to bibliographic coupling and its application to the national, regional and institutional level . . . . . . . . 195--221 M. Zitt and E. Bassecoulard Reassessment of co-citation methods for science indicators: Effect of methods improving recall rates . . . . . . . . . 223--244 F. Niwa and H. Tomizawa A trial of general indicator of science and technology: Methodological study of overall estimation of national S&T activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--265 D. T. Tomov and H. G. Mutafov Comparative indicators of interdisciplinarity in modern science 267--278 Maria Bordons and Isabel Gómez and M. Teresa Fernández and M. Angeles Zulueta and Aida Méndez Local, Domestic and International Scientific Collaboration in Biomedical Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295 H. M. Artus Science indicators derived from databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--311 Sybille Hinze and H. Grupp Mapping of R&D structures in transdisciplinary areas: New biotechnology in food sciences . . . . . 313--335 Anne Sigogneau Between policy categories and research activities: Reviews and journals to describe ``environment'' networks . . . 337--348 Marie-Ang\`ele De Looze Scientometrics as a tool for analysis of the industrial relationships of two departments in a major French applied research institute, 1988--1992 . . . . . 349--360 Valentina A. Markusova and R. S. Gilyarevskii and A. I. Chernyi and Belver C. Griffith Information behavior of Russian scientists in the ``Perestroika'' period 361--380 Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382 Anonymous Authorship on and usage of published papers in current Swedish biomedical theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--383
Yang Lin Empirical studies of negative political advertising: A quantitative review using a method of combined citation and content analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--399 G. Lewison The frequencies of occurrence of scientific papers with authors of each initial letter and their variation with nationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--416 S. Hemlin and M. Gustafsson Research production in the arts and humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432 G. F. van Caulil and C. A. M. Mombers and F. C. H. D. van den Beemt Quantifying the utilization of research: The difficulties and two models to evaluate the utilization of research results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--444 Katarina Prpi\'c Scientific fields and eminent scientists' productivity patterns and factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--471 P. Bourke and Linda Butler Publication types, citation rates and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--494 A. T. Balaban How should citations to articles in high- and low-impact journals be evaluated, or what is a citation worth? 495--498
P. Wouters and L. Leydesdorff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5 A. Rip Qualitative conditions of scientometrics: The new challenges . . . 7--26 Terttu Luukkonen Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis . . 27--37 P. Wouters Citation cycles and peer review cycles 39--55 R. Barré The European perspective on S&T indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70 P. Cunningham The evaluation of European programmes and the future of scientometrics . . . . 71--85 B. J. R. Van der Meulen The use of S&T indicators in science policy: Dutch experiences and theoretical perspectives from policy analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--101 U. Schmoch Indicators and the relations between science and technology . . . . . . . . . 103--116 Gertrud Blauwhof Mapping the dynamics of telephone switching devices . . . . . . . . . . . 117--140 J. S. Katz and Diana Hicks Desktop scientometrics . . . . . . . . . 141--153 L. Leydesdorff and P. Van Den Besselaar Scientometrics and communication theory: Towards theoretically informed indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174 T. Braun and A. Schubert Dimensions of scientometric indicator datafiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--204 A. F. J. Van Raan Scientometrics: State-of-the-art . . . . 205--218
M. Yitzhaki Variation in informativity of titles of research papers in selected humanities journals: A comparative study . . . . . 219--229 H. P. Van Dalen Measuring giants and dwarfs: Assessing the quality of economists . . . . . . . 231--252 E. E. Vogel Impact factor and international collaboration in Chilean physics: 1987--1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--263 Donatella Ugolini and S. Parodi and L. Santi Analysis of publication quality in a Cancer Research Institute . . . . . . . 265--274 H. Small Update on science mapping: Creating large document spaces . . . . . . . . . 275--293 C. A. Macías-Chapula and I. P. Rodea-Castro Subject content of the Mexican production on health and the environment (1982--1993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308 Zhang Haiqi and Guo Hong Scientific research collaboration in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--319 T. Braun and A. Schubert and S. Zsindely Nanoscience and nanotecnology on the balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--325
A. K. Romanov and A. I. Terekhov The mathematical model of productivity- and age-structured scientific community evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 Sally Jo Cunningham and S. M. Dillon Authorship patterns in information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27 Judit Bar-Ilan The ``mad cow disease'', Usenet Newsgroups and bibliometric laws . . . . 29--55 A. I. Goldberg and Luydmilla Oigenblick and Ami-Hai E. Rubin Scientific articles and national medical cultures: A comparison of Russian and American medical journals . . . . . . . 57--75 M. A. Spasser Mapping the terrain of pharmacy: Co-classification analysis of the International Pharmaceutical Abstracts database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97 J. E. Bird Authorship patterns in marine mammal science, 1985--1993 . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 J. Schummer Scientometric studies on chemistry I: The exponential growth of chemical substances, 1800--1995 . . . . . . . . . 107--123 J. Schummer Scientometric studies on chemistry II: Aims and methods of producing new chemical substances . . . . . . . . . . 125--140 C. Oppenheim Patent citation analysis . . . . . . . . 141--141
Anonymous The Editorial Board and the publishers of our journal announce with deep sorrow the death of Professor Vassily Vassiliyevich Nalimov one of the editorial advisors of our journal . . . 143--145 E. V. Budilova and J. A. Drogalina and A. T. Teriokhin Principal trends in modern ecology and its mathematical tools: An analysis of publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--157 Lucia Fonseca and Sancia Velloso and Susana Wofchuk and L. de Meis The importance of human relationships in scientific productivity . . . . . . . . 159--171 N. K. Avkiran Scientific collaboration in finance does not lead to better quality research . . 173--184 Pawan Sikka Statistical profile of science and technology in India and Brazil . . . . . 185--195 J. De Haan Authorship patterns in Dutch sociology 197--208 O. Persson and G. Melin and R. Danell and A. Kaloudis Research collaboration at Nordic universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--223
R. N. Kostoff Citation analysis cross-field normalization: A new paradigm . . . . . 225--230 R. Wagner-Döbler Time dependencies of Bradford distributions: Structures of journal output in 20th-century logic and 19th-century mathematics . . . . . . . . 231--252 Farideh Osareh and Concepción S. Wilson Third World Countries (TWC) research publications by disciplines: A country-by-country citation analysis . . 253--266 Marie-Ang\`ele De Looze and Juliette Lemarié Corpus relevance through co-word analysis: An application to plant proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--280 B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Productivity of authors as reflected by duration of their scientific participation and speed of publication 281--291 B. M. Gupta and Suresh Kumar and C. R. Karisiddappa Collaboration profile of theoretical population genetics speciality . . . . . 293--314
E. Zumelzu Mainstream engineering publishing in Latin America: The Chilean experience 3--12 D. Todorovsky On the working time budget of the university teacher . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21 M. A. Anwar and A. B. Abu Bakar Current state of science and technology in the Muslim world . . . . . . . . . . 23--44 Sandra Rousseau and R. Rousseau Data envelopment analysis as a tool for constructing scientometric indicators 45--56 Sujit Bhattacharya and S. P. Singh and P. Sudhakar Tracking changes in research priorities in physics: A macro level analysis . . . 57--82 E. Rotto and R. P. Morgan An exploration of expert-based text analysis techniques for assessing industrial relevance in U.S. engineering dissertation abstracts . . . . . . . . . 83--102 R. N. Kostoff and H. J. Eberhart and D. R. Toothman and R. Pellenbarg Database tomography for technical intelligence: Comparative roadmaps of the research impact assessment literature and the journal of the American Chemical Society . . . . . . . 103--138 B. M. Gupta Analysis of distribution of the age of citations in theoretical population genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--162 P. Vinkler Relations of relative scientometric impact indicators. The relative publication strategy index . . . . . . . 163--169
R. J. Davidse and A. F. J. Van Raan Out of particles: Impact of CERN, DESY and SLAC research to fields other than physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--193 A. L. Rivas and D. J. Wilson and R. N. Gonzalez and H. O. Mohammed and F. W. Quimby and D. H. Lein and R. A. Milligan and R. D. Colle and J. D. Deshler and W. M. K. Trochim An interdisciplinary and systems-based evaluation of academic programs: Bovine mastitis-related veterinary research, education and outreach . . . . . . . . . 195--213 Wesley Shrum View from afar: `Visible' productivity of scientists in the developing world 215--235 A. J. Nederhof and E. Van Wijk Mapping the social and behavioral sciences world-wide: Use of maps in portfolio analysis of national research efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--276 Kazuaki Kishida and Sachiko Matsui International publication patterns in social sciences: A quantitative analysis of the IBSS file . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298 D. Urban and T. J. Hoban Cognitive determinants of risk perceptions associated with biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--331 J. P. Courtial and L. Gourdon A scientometric approach to autism based on translation sociology . . . . . . . . 333--355
Anonymous Belver C. Griffith and John Irvine and Ben R. Martin (as a team) win the 1997 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . 357--357 Henry Small Comments on Belver C. Griffith, recipient of the 1997 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362 Keith Pavitt Comments on John Irvine and Ben R. Martin, recipients of the 1997 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . 363--366 Bluma Peritz From the opening address of the conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--368 A. Bookstein and B. Wright Ambiguity in measurement . . . . . . . . 369--384 S. Bhattacharya Cross-national comparison of frontier areas of research in physics using bibliometric indicators . . . . . . . . 385--405 M. Bonitz and E. Bruckner and Andrea Scharnhorst Characteristics and impact of the Matthew Effect for countries . . . . . . 407--422 Maria Bordons and M. A. Zulueta Comparison of research team activity in two biomedical fields . . . . . . . . . 423--436 G. Czapski The use of deciles of the citation impact to evaluate different fields of research in Israel . . . . . . . . . . . 437--443 R. Danell and L. Engwall and O. Persson The first mover and the challenger: The relationship between two journals in organization research . . . . . . . . . 445--453 L. Egghe Fractal and informetric aspects of hypertext systems . . . . . . . . . . . 455--464 P. Faucompré and L. Quoniam and H. Dou An effective link between science and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--480 W. Glänzel On the possibility and reliability of predictions based on stochastic citation processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492 L. Grivel and X. Polanco and A. Kaplan A computer system for big scientometrics at the age of the World Wide Web . . . . 493--506 B. M. Gupta and Praveen Sharma and C. R. Karisiddappa Growth of research literature in scientific specialities. A modelling perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--528 F. Hjortgaard Christensen and P. Ingwersen and Irene Wormell Online determination of the journal impact factor and its international properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--540 J. S. Katz and Diana Hicks How much is a collaboration worth? A calibrated bibliometric model . . . . . 541--554 Terttu A. M. Kortelainen Applying concepts of diffusion research in an informetric study . . . . . . . . 555--568 M. Krauskopf and María Inés Vera Assessment of scientific profiles and capabilities of Ph.D. programs in Chile: A scientometric approach . . . . . . . . 569--577 Hildrun Kretschmer Patterns of behaviour in coauthorship networks of invisible colleges . . . . . 579--591 C. De Lange and W. Glänzel Modelling and measuring multilateral co-authorship in international scientific collaboration. Part I. Development of a new model using a series expansion approach . . . . . . . 593--604 W. Glänzel and C. De Lange Modelling and measuring multilateral co-authorship in international scientific collaboration. Part II. A comparative study on the extent and change of international scientific collaboration links . . . . . . . . . . 605--626
G. Lewison New bibliometric techniques for the evaluation of medical schools . . . . . 5--16 G. Lewison and G. Dawson The effect of funding on the outputs of biomedical research . . . . . . . . . . 17--27 M. Luwel and H. F. Moed Publication delays in the science field and their relationship to the ageing of scientific literature . . . . . . . . . 29--40 C. A. Macias-Chapula and Irma P. Rodea-Castro and Nora Narvaez-Berthelemot Bibliometric analysis of aids literature in Latin America and the Caribbean . . . 41--49 F. Narin and D. Olivastro Linkage between patents and papers: An interim EPO/US comparison . . . . . . . 51--59 E. C. M. Noyons and A. F. J. Van Raan Advanced mapping of science and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67 X. Polanco and Claire François and J.-P. Keim Artificial neural network technology for the classification and cartography of scientific and technical information . . 69--82 L. Quoniam and F. Balme and H. Rostaing and E. Giraud and J. M. Dou Bibliometric law used for information retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--91 I. K. Ravichandra Rao An analysis of Bradford multipliers and a model to explain law of scattering . . 93--100 J. Rey and M.-J. Martín and L. Plaza and J. J. Ibáñez and Isabel Méndez Changes on publishing behavior in response to research policy guidelines. The case of the Spanish Research Council in the field of agronomy . . . . . . . . 101--111 Jane M. Russell Publishing patterns of Mexican scientists: Differences between national and international papers . . . . . . . . 113--124 H. Small A general framework for creating large-scale maps of science in two or three dimensions: The SciViz system . . 125--133 S. K. Sen and S. K. Chatterjee Bibliographic scattering and time: An empirical study through temporal partitioning of bibliographies . . . . . 135--154 Barbara Stefaniak International cooperation of polish researchers with partners from abroad: A scientometric study . . . . . . . . . . 155--167 G. Van Hooydonk and Greta Milis-Proost Measuring impact by a full option method and the notion of bibliometric spectra 169--183 P. Vinkler General performance indexes calculated for research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences based on scientometric indicators . . . . . . . . 185--200 R. Wagner-Döbler Scientometric evidence for the existence of long economic growth cycles in Europe 1500--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--208 Concepción S. Wilson Defining subject collections for informetric analyses: The effect of varying the subject aboutness level . . 209--223 P. Wouters The signs of science . . . . . . . . . . 225--241 M. Yitzhaki The `language preference' in sociology: Measures of `language self-citation', `relative own-language preference indicator', and `mutual use of languages' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254 M. Zitt and E. Bassecoulard Internationalization of scientific journals: A measurement based on publication and citation scope . . . . . 255--271 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Y. Okubo and J. C. Dore and T. Ojasoo and J. F. Miquel A multivariate analysis of publication trends in the 1980s with special reference to South-East Asia . . . . . . 273--289 G. Patrick O'Neill Authorship patterns in theory based versus research based journals . . . . . 291--298 Lucia Fonseca and Sancia Velloso and Susana Wofchuk and L. De Meis The relationship between advisors and students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--312 Jacqueline Leta and Denise Lannes and L. De Meis Human resources and scientific productivity in Brazil . . . . . . . . . 313--324 C. Y. K. So Citation ranking versus expert judgment in evaluating communication scholars: Effects of research specialty size and individual prominence . . . . . . . . . 325--333 P. R. Thomas and D. S. Watkins Institutional research rankings via bibliometric analysis and direct peer review: A comparative case study with policy implications . . . . . . . . . . 335--355 Ashok Jain and K. C. Garg and Praveen Sharma and Suresh Kumar Impact of SERC's funding on research in chemical sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 357--370 A. Winkel Schwarz and S. Schwarz and R. J. W. Tijssen Research and research impact of a technical university --- a bibliometric study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--388 Katherine W. McCain Neural networks research in context: A longitudinal journal cocitation analysis of an emerging interdisciplinary field 389--410 J. Marton and H. Hulesch and I. Zallár Intensity breeds effectivity . . . . . . 411--415 A. E. Vinogradov Scientists of old vintage support a `winter-biased birthday' theory . . . . 417--420
B. Mély and M. Abd El Kader and G. Dudognon and Y. Okubo Scientific publications of China in 1994: Evolution or revolution? . . . . . 3--16 Dhruv Raina and B. M. Gupta Four aspects of the institutionalization of physics research in India (1990--1950): Substantiating the claims of histortical sociology through bibliometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--40 R. J. W. Tijssen and E. Van Wijk The global science base of information and communication technologiges: Bibliometric analysis of ICT research papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--60 J. A. Fernández The transition from an individual science to a collective one: The case of astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74 Sandra Rousseau and R. Rousseau The scientific wealth of European nations: Taking effectiveness into account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87 Wang Chongde and Wang Zhe Evaluation of the models for Bradford's Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
L. T. Falkingham and R. Reeves Context analysis --- a technique for analysing research in a field, applied to literature on the management of R&D at the section level . . . . . . . . . . . 97--120 A. V. Nemtsov and N. A. Zorin Mathematical methods in psychiatric papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128 J. E. De Oliveira Cabral Survey on technological innovative behavior in the Brazilian food industry 129--169 \Dbar. G. Kutla\vca Patent-related activities in Serbia from 1921 to 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--193 M. Meyer and O. Persson Nanotechnology-interdisciplinarity, patterns of collaboration and differences in application . . . . . . . 195--205 Judit Bar-Ilan On the overlap, the precision and estimated recall of search engines. A case study of the query ``Erd\Hos'' . . 207--228 F. De Moya Anegón and E. Jiménez Contreras and Mercedes De La Moneda Corrochano Research fronts in library and information science in Spain (1985--1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--246 Margarete Pereira Friedrich and P. Dos Santos Rodrigues Looking at science in Brazilian universities: The case of the instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho . . . . 247--258 Yi Su and Li-Feng Han A new literature growth model: Variable exponential growth law of literature . . 259--265 M. Beckmann and O. Persson The thirteen most cited journals in economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--271
S. Radosevic and Laudeline Auriol Measuring S&T activities in the Former Socialist Economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Conceptual and methodological issues in linking past with present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--297 P. W. Hart and J. T. Sommerfeld Relationship between growth in gross domestic product (GDP) and growth in the chemical engineering literature in five different countries . . . . . . . . . . 299--311 B. Godin Measuring knowledge flows between countries: The use of scientific meeting data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--323 B. M. Gupta and Suresh Kumar and R. Rousseau Applicability of selected probability distributions to the number of authors per article in theoretical population genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--334 B. M. Gupta Growth and obsolescence of literature in theoretical population genetics . . . . 335--347 B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Collaboration in theoretical population genetics speciality . . . . . . . . . . 349--376 A. L. Rivas and J. D. Deshler and F. W. Quimby and H. O. Mohammed and D. J. Wilson and R. N. Gonzalez and D. H. Lein and P. Bruso Interdisciplinary question generation: Synthesis and validity analysis of the 1993--1997 bovine mastitis-related literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--403 M. Abd el Kader and T. Ojasoo and J. F. Miquel and Y. Okubo and J. C. Doré Hierarchical author networks: An analysis of European molecular biology laboratory (EMBL) publications . . . . . 405--421 A. F. J. Van Raan The influence of international collaboration on the impact of research results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--428 Michel Leclerc Science et technologie --- Le mariage japonais. (French) [Science and technology --- the Japanese marriage] 429--434
Tibor Braun Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 L. Leydesdorff Theories of citation? . . . . . . . . . 5--25 R. N. Kostoff The use and misuse of citation analysis in research evaluation . . . . . . . . . 27--43 Blaise Cronin Metatheorizing citation . . . . . . . . 45--55 L. Egghe Mathematical theories of citation . . . 57--62 R. Rousseau Citation analysis as a theory of friction of polluted air? . . . . . . . 63--67 E. Garfield Random thoughts on citationology its theory and practice . . . . . . . . . . 69--76 Yuko Fujigaki The citation system: Citation networks as repeatedly focusing on difference, continuous re-evaluation, and as persistent knowledge accumulation . . . 77--85 Junichiro Makino Productivity of research groups-relation between citation analysis and reputation within research communities . . . . . . 87--93 Andrea Scharnhorst Citation-networks, science landscapes and evolutionary strategies . . . . . . 95--106 P. Vinkler Comparative investigation of frequency and strength of motives toward referencing. The reference threshold model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--127 A. F. J. van Raan In matters of quantitative studies of science the fault of theorists is offering too little and asking too much 129--139 S. Arunachalam Citation analysis: Do we need a theory? 141--142 H. Small Citations and consilience in science . . 143--148
A. E. Vinogradov Secular trend of academician aging . . . 149--160 Sally Jo Cunningham Applications for bibliometric research in the emerging digital libraries . . . 161--175 Julio C. R. Pereira and Maria Mercedes L. Escuder and Dirce Maria Trevisan Zanetta Brazilian sciences and government funding at the State of São Paulo . . . . 177--188 M. V. Guzman and E. Sanz and G. Sotolongo Bibliometric study on vaccines (1990--1995). Part I: Scientific production in Iberian--American countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--205 Branka Golub The Croatian scientific elite and its socio-professional roots . . . . . . . . 207--229 H. F. Moed and M. Luwel and J. A. Houben and E. Spruyt and H. Van Den Berghe The effects of changes in the funding structure of the Flemish universities on their research capacity, productivity and impact during the 1980's and early 1990's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--255 Judit Bar-Ilan The mathematician, Paul Erd\Hos (1913--1996) in the eyes of the Internet 257--267 Katarina Prpi\'c Science ethics: A study of eminent scientists' professional values . . . . 269--298 Luis M. Plaza The use of multiple databases in the assesment of research. An application in the field of plant science . . . . . . . 299--304
A. Ramesh Babu and Y. P. Singh Determinants of research productivity 309--329 Parthasarathi Banerjee Indicators of `innovation as a process' 331--357 Sujit Bhattacharya and Prajit K. Basu Mapping a research area at the micro level using co-word analysis . . . . . . 359--372 Anju Chawla and J. P. Singh Organizational environment and performance of research groups --- a typological analysis . . . . . . . . . . 373--391 Rakesh Chetal and Ashok Raj Sponsored R&D in India: The project sponsoring pattern and main outcome of projects sponsored by major central departments/agencies . . . . . . . . . . 393--421 S. M. Dhawan Comparative study of physics research in India and China based on INSPEC--Physics for 1990 and 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . 423--441 K. C. Garg and P. Padhi Scientometric study of laser patent literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446 Hildrun Kretschmer and B. M. Gupta Collaboration patterns in theoretical population genetics . . . . . . . . . . 455--462
B. M. Gupta and Praveen Sharma and Suresh Kumar Growth of world and Indian physics literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--16 V. K. Gupta Technological trends in the area of fullerenes using bibliometric analysis of patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31 S. L. Sangam Obsolescence of literature in the field of psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46 K. Satyanarayana and D. Srivastava and V. Sreenivas The relevance of short communication in scholarly journals: An empirical study 47--58 Geetha Seetharam and I. K. Ravichandra Rao Growth of food science and technology literature: A comparison of CFTRI, India and the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79 R. Srinivasan and Vidyalakshmi Raman and N. Meyyappan and P. Pichappan Assessment of the impact of the journal literature produced by Indian CSIR laboratories using subfield corrected impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--92 M. P. Tapaswi and B. S. Maheswarappa Ranking serials in oceanography: An analysis based on the Indian contributions and their citations . . . 93--127 B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Collaboration and author productivity: A study with a new variable in Lotka's Law 129--134
Nicole J. Saam and L. Reiter Lotka's Law reconsidered: The evolution of publication and citation distributions in scientific fields . . . 135--155 E. D. Nunes A review of research studies conducted on scientific production in collective health in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167 L. Leydesdorff and P. Wouters Between texts and contexts: Advances in theories of citation? (A rejoinder) . . 169--182 G. Lewison and R. Igic Yogoslav politics, ``ethnic cleansing'' and co-authorship in science . . . . . . 183--192 Diana Hicks The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--215 R. Ruiz-Baños and R. Bailón-Moreno and E. Jiménez-Contreras and J.-P. Courtial Structure and dynamics of scientific networks. Part I: Fundamentals of the quantitative model of translation . . . 217--234 R. Ruiz-Baños and R. Bailón-Moreno and E. Jiménez-Contreras and J.-P. Courtial Structure and dynamics of scientific networks. Part II: The new Zipf's Law, the clusters of co-citations and the model of the descriptor presence . . . . 235--265 A. Schubert Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography 1994--1996 . . . . . . . . 267--315
H. F. Moed Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321 E. Bassecoulard and M. Zitt Indicators in a research institute: A multi-level classification of scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--345 Aparna Basu Science publication indicators for India: Questions of interpretation . . . 347--360 M. Bonitz and E. Bruckner and Andrea Scharnhorst The Matthew index --- Concentration patterns and Matthew core journals . . . 361--378 K. Debackere and M. Luwel and Reinhilde Veugelers Can technology lead to a competitive advantage? A case study of Flanders using European patent data . . . . . . . 379--400 M.-A. De Looze and A. Roy and R. Coronini and M. Reinert and O. Jouve Two measures for identifying the perception of risk associated with the introduction of transgenic plants . . . 401--426 W. Glänzel and A. Schubert and H.-J. Czerwon An item-by-item subject classification of papers published in multidisciplinary and general journals using reference analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--439 Isabel Gómez and María Teresa Fernández and Jesús Sebastián Analysis of the structure of international scientific cooperation networks through bibliometric indicators 441--457 Lydia L. Lange and P. A. Frensch Gaining scientific recognition by position: Does editorship increase citation rates? . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--486 A. J. Nederhof and E. Van Wijk Profiling institutes: Identifying high research performance and social relevance in the social and behavioral sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--506 H. E. Roosendaal and P. A. Th. M. Geurts Scientific communication and its relevance to research policy . . . . . . 507--519 R. Rousseau Temporal differences in self-citation rates of scientific journals . . . . . . 521--531 I. Rowlands Patterns of author cocitation in information policy: Evidence of social, collaborative and cognitive structure 533--546 H. Schwechheimer and M. Winterhager Highly dynamic specialities in climate research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--560 P. Wouters Beyond the Holy Grail: From citation theory to indicator theories . . . . . . 561--580
J. Molas-Gallart Measuring defence R&D: A note on problems and shortcomings . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16 M. Lee and K. Om and J. Koh Blind review of research proposals in Korea: Its effectiveness and factors affecting applicant detection . . . . . 17--31 J. C. Huber Inventive productivity and the statistics of exceedances . . . . . . . 33--53 R. Coronini and V. Mangematin From individual scientific visibility to collective competencies: The example of an academic department in the social sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--80 T. Ojasoo and J. C. Doré Citation bias in medical journals . . . 81--94 Julio C. R. Pereira and Maria Mercedes L. Escuder The scenario of Brazilian health sciences in the period of 1981 to 1995 95--105 M. M. S. Karki and K. C. Garg Scientometrics of Indian organic chemistry research . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116 T. J. Phelan A compendium of issues for citation analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--136 J. Kozlowski and S. Radosevic and D. Ircha History matters: The inherited disciplinary structure of the post-Communist science in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and its restructuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--166
H. Eto The interest of scientific communities in sea-related research topics . . . . . 167--183 W. Glänzel and A. Schubert and H.-J. Czerwon A bibliometric analysis of international scientific cooperation of the European Union (1985--1995) . . . . . . . . . . . 185--202 J. Rey-Rocha and M. J. Martín-Sempere The role of domestic journals in geographically-oriented disciplines: The case of Spanish journals on earth sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216 L. Egghe and R. Rousseau and M. Yitzhaki The ``own-language preference'': Measures of relative language self-citation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--232 B. S. Kademani and V. L. Kalyane and Suresh Jange Scientometric portrait of Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin . . . . . . . . 233--250 K. C. Garg and P. Padhi Scientometrics of laser research literature as viewed through the Journal of Current Laser Abstracts . . . . . . . 251--268 B. M. Gupta and Suresh Kumar and B. S. Aggarwal A comparision of productivity of male and female scientists of CSIR . . . . . 269--289 L. Egghe An explanation of the relation between the fraction of multinational publications and the fractional score of a country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--310 H. Eto Relationship of mathematical programming with mathematics, economic/regional planning and other specialties . . . . . 311--324 Bihui Jin and Bing Wang Chinese science citation database: Its construction and application . . . . . . 325--332
E. Bundschuh Welcoming and opening remarks . . . . . 335--336 R. Escritt Welcoming and opening remarks: Science and the academic system in transition --- the role of evaluation . . . . . . . 337--337 U. Scapagnini Welcoming and opening remarks . . . . . 339--341 C. Einem Welcoming and opening remarks . . . . . 343--346 Viscount E. Davignon Evaluation in management and policy making at European level . . . . . . . . 347--354 R. F. Kneucker Evaluation in management and policy making at European level . . . . . . . . 355--357 E. Bundschuh Quality assessment and structural change in universities . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--365 O. V. Lindqvist Quality assessment and structural change in universities . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--370 T. Nybom Quality assessment and structural change in universities . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--377 A. Pompidou Quality assessment and structural change in universities . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--379 Verena Meyer The role of advisory bodies in evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--385 A. van Heeringen The role of advisory bodies in evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389 P. Papon The role of national agencies in evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--399 H. Seidel The role of national agencies in evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--403 P. M. Fasella Interdependencies and interactions between evaluation and decision making processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--408 H. Tuppy Interdependencies and interactions between evaluation and decision making processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--412 F. Meyer-Krahmer Quantitative approaches --- Strengths and weaknesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--415 A. van Raan Advanced bibliometric methods for the evaluation of universities . . . . . . . 417--423 T. Braun Bibliometric indicators for the evaluation of universities --- intelligence from the quantitation of the scientific literature . . . . . . . 425--432 H. Skoie Bibliometrics --- Some warnings from the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--437 G. Sirilli Innovation indicators in science and technology evaluation . . . . . . . . . 439--443 D. F. Westerheijden Innovation indicators in science and technology evaluation: Comments from a higher education point of view . . . . . 445--453 A. Airaghi Quantitative methods in industrial research and development . . . . . . . . 455--457 E. Vel Tkamp Quantitative methods in industrial R&D 459--462 Y. Farge Quantitative methods in industrial research and development . . . . . . . . 463--465 H. Curien Role of experts in political consultancy processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--471 N. Wilhjelm Role of experts in political consultancy processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474 A. Schmidt Role of experts in political consultancy processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--477 H. List Advisory functions at European level . . 479--484 J. Borgman Advisory functions at European level . . 485--486 M. Mannerkoski Advisory functions at European level . . 487--489 S. Strömholm Peer review- Experience at national and European level . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--495 J. M. Rojo Peer review --- Experiences at national and European level . . . . . . . . . . . 497--500 W. Krull Challenges to output measurement in science and technology programme evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--504 M. J. Ledoux Measuring the impact of the EU Framework Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506 G. Fayl Measuring the impact of EU Framework Programme at national level . . . . . . 507--507 Lena Tsipouri Evaluation at regional level-science and technology in structural funds . . . . . 509--515 Elisabeth Helander Evaluation of science and technology in the structural funds . . . . . . . . . . 517--521 L. Georghiou Meta-evaluation: Evaluation of evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--530 E. Praestgaard Meta-evaluation: Evaluation of evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--532 M. Horvat Meta-evaluation: Evaluation of evaluations some points for discussion 533--542 P. M. Fasella Universities --- Engines of Innovation in the Information Society . . . . . . . 543--545 J. Viana-Baptista Universities --- Engines of Innovation in the Information Society . . . . . . . 547--550 J. Bricall Universities --- Engines of Innovation in the Information Society . . . . . . . 551--556 M. Oborne Universities --- Engines of Innovation in the Information Society . . . . . . . 557--560 A. Kuklinski The European University in the global landscape of the 21$^{st}$ century . . . 561--564 P. Skalicky Universities --- Engines of Innovation in the Information Society . . . . . . . 565--566 E. Bundschuh Closing remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--567 J. Routti Closing remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570 C. Einem Closing session . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--572
Anonymous Wolfgang Glänzel and Henk F. Moed Win the 1999 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . 3--4 C. Le Pair Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1999 Derek de Solla Price Award to Drs. Wolfgang Glänzel and Henk Moed at the ISSI conference held at Colima, Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--9 A. Maxime Dahoun Black Africa in the science citation index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18 K. C. Garg and P. Padhi Scientometrics of institutional productivity of laser science and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--38 M. de Marchi and M. Rocchi Summing up approaches to the study of science and technology indicators . . . 39--49 D. B. Arkhipov Scientometric analysis of nature, the journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--72 Takayuki Hayashi and Yuko Fujigaki Differences in knowledge production between disciplines based on analysis of paper styles and citation patterns . . . 73--86 Heine Andersen Political attitudes and cognitive convictions among Danish social science researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--108 P. S. Nagpaul Transnational linkages of Indian science: A structural analysis . . . . . 109--140 Geraldo Da Silva E. Souza and Eliseu Alves and Antonio Flávio Dias Ávila Technical efficiency of production in agricultural research . . . . . . . . . 141--160 G. Melin Impact of national size on research collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--170 A. Schubert On science journals in science journals 1980--1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--212
R. Wagner-Döbler and J. Berg Physics 1800--1900: A quantitative outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--285 J. E. Bird and M. D. Bird Do peer-reviewed journal papers result from meeting abstracts of the Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297 F. De Moya-Anegón and V. Herrero-Solana Science in America latina: A comparison of bibliometric and scientific-technical indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--320 Ersin Yurtsever and Sami Gülgöz The increase in the rate of publications originating from Turkey . . . . . . . . 321--336 A. Bookstein and M. Yitzhaki Own-language preference: A new measure of ``relative language self-citation'' 337--348 A. Fernández-Cano and A. Bueno Synthesizing scientometric patterns in Spanish educational research . . . . . . 349--367
Judit Bar-Ilan and Bluma C. Peritz The life span of a specific topic on the web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382 M. Bordons and M. A. Zulueta and F. Romero and S. Barrigón Measuring interdisciplinary collaboration within a university: The effects of the multidisciplinary research programme . . . . . . . . . . . 383--398 M. Davis and C. S. Wilson and W. W. Hood Ophthalmology and optics: An informetric study of Australia's contribution to fields in the Vision Science domain, 1991--95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--416 L. Egghe A model for measuring the congestion in library shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430 W. Glänzel and A. Schubert and U. Schoepflin and H. J. Czerwon An item-by-item subject classification of papers published in journals covered by the SSCI database using reference analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--441 Isabel Gómez and Rosa Sancho and Luz Moreno and María Teresa Fernández Influence of Latin American journals coverage by international databases . . 443--456 Sybille Hinze Collaboration and cross-disciplinarity in autoimmune diseases . . . . . . . . . 457--471 W. W. Hood and Concepción S. Wilson The distribution of bibliographic records in databases using different counting methods for duplicate records 473--486 P. Ingwersen and Irene Wormell Publication behaviour and international impact: Scandinavian clinical and social medicine, 1988--96 . . . . . . . . . . . 487--499 Hildrun Kretschmer A new model of scientific collaboration. Part 1. Theoretical approach . . . . . . 501--518 Ramesh Kundra and Hildrun Kretschmer A new model of scientific collaboration. Part 2. Collaboration patterns in Indian medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--528 G. Lewison The definition and calibration of biomedical subfields . . . . . . . . . . 529--537 Judith Licea de Arenas and J. Valles and M. Arenas Profile of the Mexican health sciences elite: A bibliometric analysis of research performance . . . . . . . . . . 539--547 M. Luwel Is the science citation index US-biased? 549--562 C. A. Macias-Chapula and G. R. Sotolongo-Aguilar and B. Magde and J. Solorio-Lagunas Subject content analysis of aids literature, as produced in Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 563--574 H. F. Moed and Th. N. Van Leeuwen and J. Reedijk Towards appropriate indicators of journal impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--589 E. C. M. Noyons and H. F. Moed and A. F. J. Van Raan Integrating research performance analysis and science mapping . . . . . . 591--604 I. K. Ravichandra Rao and Ms. P. Suma A quantitative study of Indian engineering literature . . . . . . . . . 605--619 P. Vinkler Ratio of short term and long term impact factors and similarities of chemistry journals represented by references . . . 621--633 R. Wagner-Döbler William Goffman's ``\booktitleMathematical approach to the prediction of scientific discovery'' and its application to logic, revisited . . 635--645 Concepción S. Wilson Using online databases to form subject collections for informetric analyses . . 647--667 M. Zitt and E. Bassecoulard Internationalization of communication a view on the evolution of scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--685
Quentin L. Burrell Some remarks on a paper by Egghe . . . . 345--350
Lowell L. Hargens and Jerald R. Herting Analyzing the association between referees' recommendations and editors' decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26