Review of Proceedings of 7th ISSI in Mexico

[Mari Davis]

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From:     Mari Davis/Commerce/UNSW/AU @ UNSW
Date:     02/29/2000 12:52:06 PM
Subject:  Review of Proceedings of 7th ISSI in Mexico


There is a review of the Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI)in a recent
issue of the Journal of Documentation (vol.56, no.1, January 2000) by Jack
Meadows of Loughborough University, UK.  The Conference was held in July
1999 in Colima, Mexico.  The Proceedings volume publishes 51 full papers
and 18 poster session abstracts..

Conference participants came from 27 countries most notably France, Spain,
India, Australia, Germany and Mexico.  Meadows notes in his review  "...
the miniscule contribution from the UK" despite the increasing attention
being paid to evaluation of research by British institutions.  This same
comment could be made of the USA in relation to their participation. There
is a notable lack of contributions to this particular Conference from
informetric and scientometric scholars in the US.

The next ISSI conference, the 8th, will be held in Sydney, Australia in
July 2001.  Please visit the ISSI-2001 Web Site at

http://sistm.web.unsw.edu.au/conference/issi2001/index.html

The Web Site gives details of the history of these Scientometric
Conferences started in 1987 by Leo Egghe and others,
as well as information about the Society, the Derek de Solla Price Awards
and Price Medal.  Information relating to the 'Call for Papers' and the
deadlines for submission and review.