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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:18:46 +0100
From: Dr. Manfred Bonitz <M.Bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de>

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 The international journal SCIENTOMETRICS devoted a special issue (vol.52,
 No.2, 2001) to the memory of Vassily Vassilievich NALIMOV. Interested people
 are offered to order a copy of the issue free of charge directly from the
 Publishing Editor. First come first serve. Please, drop a signal to

 Kluwer Academic Publishers
 Drs. F. Robbert van Berckelaer M.Phil.
 Spuiboulevard 50
 P.O.Box 17
 3300 AA Dordrecht
 The Netherlands

 Phone: (+31) 78 639 21 87
 Fax: (+31) 78 639 23 88
 E-mail: fr.vanBerckelaer at wkap.nl


 From the guest editor's editorial:

    "Vassily Nalimov (VVN) is really beyond description. He is like a
wandering
 star  whose motion brought him for a short time in our constellation, giving
 us a special gift - the word Scientometrics; then he moved on to another
level
 of consciousness. One can only be astonished at his productivity, and his
 visionary books on the evolution of contemporary sciences and on the
necessity
 of cultural changes mankind must undertake in order to survive on the planet.
 Nalimov is truly an extra-terrestrial thinker.

    It was Tibor Braun's idea to dedicate a whole issue of this journal to the
 memory of VVN. The challenge was unusual. It could not be limited to the
 gathering of original papers from scientometicians. On the other hand,
 introducing the readership to the "whole" VVN would have meant that little
was
 left for papers on scientometrics. So I tried to create a structure that
 reflects, at least in part, the main features of VVN's personality, his life
 and work, his universal, probabilistic thinking."


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    C O N T E N T S


    E d i t o r i a l s


 Tibor Braun, editor-in-chief (HUNGARY)

 Manfred Bonitz, guest editor (GERMANY)


    A b o u t  N a l i m o v  (by historians, friends, co-workers)

 Lyubov G. Gurjeva, Paul Wouters  (RUSSIA, THE NETHERLANDS)
      Scientometrics in the context of probabilistic philosophy
 Yuriy V. Granovsky  (RUSSIA)
      Is it possible to measure science? V.V. Nalimov's research
      in scientometrics
 Elena V. Markova  (RUSSIA)
      He brought new meanings and new solutions
 Arkady I. Cherny, Ruggero S. Gilyarevsky  (RUSSIA)
      The impact of V.V. Nalimov on information science
 Eugene Garfield  (USA)
      Reminiscences of Vassily V. Nalimov
 Rustum Roy  (USA)
     Vassily Nalimov - modern Russian high priest


    T e x t s  b y  N a l i m o v  (reprinted and unpublished)


 Vassily V. Nalimov  (RUSSIA)
      Return from Exile. The Development of Mathematical Experimental
      Design
 Vassily V. Nalimov  (RUSSIA)
      Facing the mystery: A philosophical approach
 Vassily V. Nalimov  (RUSSIA)
      Philosophy of Number: How metrical hermeneutics is possible


    O r i g i n a l  p a p e r s


 Barbara Stefaniak  (POLAND)
      International co-operation in science and in social sciences as
      reflected in multinational papers indexed in SCI and SSCI
 Marta Skalska-Zlat  (POLAND)
      Nalimov and the Polish way towards science of science
 Anna Zbikowska-Migon  (POLAND)
      Karl Heinrich Froemmichen (1736-1783) and Adrian Balbi (1782-1848)
      - The Pioneers of Biblio- and Scientometrics
 Subbiah Arunachalam  (INDIA)
      Mathematics research in India today: What does the literature
      reveal?
 Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau  (BELGIUM)
      Symmetric and asymmetric theory of relative concentration and
      applications
 William W. Hood, Concepcion S. Wilson  (AUSTRALIA)
      The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics
 Nikita A. Zorin, Aleksander V. Nemtsov, Vladimir V. Kalinin  (RUSSIA)
      Formalised assessment of publication quality in Russian psychiatry
 Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich  (RUSSIA)
      Scientometric perspectives of the analysis of chemical terminology


    T h e  U n i v e r s e  o f  N a l i m o v

 Sam I. Shapiro  (USA)
      The Universe Grasper
 Vassily V. Nalimov, Jeanna Drogalina-Nalimov, Konstantin Zuyev  (RUSSIA)
      The Universe of Meanings

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 Dr. Manfred Bonitz
 Halbkreisstrasse 17
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 E-mail: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de
 Phone: (+49) 351 401 0760

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