[Asis-l] 13th ISSI 2011 Conference Announcement, Durban, South Africa, July 4-8.

[Judit Bar-Ilan]

[Apologies for cross posting]

 

13th ISSI 2011 Conference Announcement, 

Durban, South Africa, July 4-8. 

 

The Conference Organizing Committee would like to invite participants to
attend the 13th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics
Conference 2011 in Durban, South Africa (http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/). 

 

Scope 

Although the generic term informetrics has become increasingly popular,
scientometrics, bibliometrics and webometrics are all closely related or
interlinked sub-disciplines. They belong to the general field of Information
Science and are all employed for the quantitative analysis or measurement of
all forms of recorded information by studying their distribution,
circulation and use pattern largely within or among individuals,
disciplines, organisations or countries. The informetric disciplines thus
contribute to evidence-based and informed knowledge about scientific
research and provide input to research and innovation policy making
worldwide. 

Evidently, a conference of this magnitude always encourages the growth of
research and increased national and international collaboration. We are
convinced that by organising the conference on African soil, we will be able
to popularise research in the areas of informetrics, scientometrics and
webometrics within the country and on the continent.

The ISSI 2011 Conference will provide an international open forum for
scientists, research managers and authorities, information and communication
related professionals to debate the current status and advancements of
informetric and scientometric theory and applications, with emphasis on the
progress of scientometrics and science in developing countries. The
conference is organized under the auspices of ISSI - the International
Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (http://www.issi-society.info/).
The conference language is English. 

 

Location

The choice of Durban to be the conference city is significant. Durban

(http://www.world66.com/africa/southafrica/durban/lib/gallery) is considered
to be Africa's leading conference destination; is a vibrant city with a
harmonious blend of African, Asian and European culture, and is located in
the historical Kingdom of the Zulu nation in the KwaZulu-Natal province that
is a gateway to African culture in South Africa. Durban is also South
Africa's only destination of tropical summers, with 320 sunny days a year.
Durban University of Technology, the conference venue that is located close
to the city Central Business District (CBD), is one of the 23 public
universities in South Africa that focuses on technology oriented vocational
and professional higher education with 23,000 students enrolment. The
University has allocated its conference facility for the ISSI conference.

 

Invitation to submit contributions to ISSI 2011

We invite researchers worldwide to submit original full research papers,
research-in-progress papers or posters within the broad area of
informetrics. Major conference themes are listed below. For the different
forms of submissions, see information on the conference website:
http://www.issi2011.uzulu.ac.za/. A Doctoral Forum and dedicated tutorials
will be held the day prior to the start of the main conference.

 

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

*	Theory 
*	Methods and techniques 
*	Citation and co-citation analysis 
*	Indicators 
*	Webometrics 
*	Mapping & visualization 
*	Research policy  
*	Productivity & publications 
*	Journals, databases and electronic publications 
*	Collaboration 
*	Country level studies 
*	Patent analysis 

 

Important Dates:

Full Papers, Research-in-Progress and 

Workshop/Tutorial paper submission deadline
15-01-2011           

Paper/Workshop/Tutorial notification of acceptance/rejection     15-02-2011

Poster submission deadline
18-02-2011

Doctoral Forum submission deadline
01-03-2011

Poster notification of acceptance/rejection
14-03-2011

Paper in camera ready form sent to system
(at least one author must register)
17-03-2011

Doctoral Forum result announcement
01-04-2011

Early Bird registration
15-04-2011

 

 

Organizing Committee

The I3th ISSI conference in South Africa is organised by the ISSI 2011
Conference Local Organising Committee with the participation of six
Universities and Research Centres: Durban University of Technology (the
conference venue -http://www.dut.ac.za/site/default.asp), University of Cape
Town (http://www.uct.ac.za), University of KwaZulu Natal
(http://www.ukzn.ac.za), National Research Foundation (http://www.nrf.ac.za
<http://www.nrf.ac.za/> ), University of South Africa
(http://www.unisa.ac.za <http://www.unisa.ac.za/> ), University of Pretoria
(http://www.up.ac.za <http://www.up.ac.za/> ) and University of Zululand

(http://www.uz.ac.za <http://www.uz.ac.za/> ).  

 

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