SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS

[Leo Egghe]

SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS

CALL FOR PAPERS

The journal Information Processing and Management (IPM) will publish, early
2005, a special issue on the general topic "informetrics". Issue guest
editor is Leo Egghe of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum in Belgium (see
coordinates below). There is no restriction on informetric topics, for
reasons explained in the second part of this call but one seeks papers of
high quality on either one or both of the following aspects:

*       professional data gathering
*       explanation of regularities found in the data (mathematical
modelling).

As such we expect informetric papers on the following possible topics:

*       bibliographies (authors, journals)
*       indexing and information retrieval
*       libraries and other information centres
*       citation analysis and performance indicators
*       growth and aging (obsolescence) of literature
*       scientific communication (incl. collaboration), social networks
among which the Internet, incl. webometrics
*       links (topical as well as methodological) with other -metrics fields
such as sociometrics, econometrics, biometrics, quantitative linguistics and
the study of complex, self-organising systems.

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2004.

The papers should be sent to

Prof. Dr. Leo Egghe
Issue guest editor IPM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3590 Diepenbeek
Belgium
tel.: +32 11 26.81.21
fax: +32 11 26.81.26
e-mail: leo.egghe at luc.ac.be

Papers should be sent, preferably, by e-mail. If sent by airmail we expect
that 3 copies are submitted.

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It is intended that this should be the first of a growing series of issues
on this theme that will become the core collection of work in this field.
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