SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS

[Williams Nwagwu]

Dear Leo,
Will you publish empirical studies that drew data from
specific countries' scientific activties?

Willie

--- Leo Egghe <leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE> wrote:
>
> 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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