Centennial 1906-2006

["Godin, Benoît"]

Dear colleagues,

 

2006 marks a centennial, that of the systematic collection of statistics on science, technology and innovation. By systematic I mean "the regular use, for analytical purpose and over a continuous period of time, of statistics". In 1906 James McKeen Cattell, editor of Science for fifty years (1895-1944), published the first edition of a directory of scientists entitled American Men of Science. Based on the directory, Cattell published regular statistical analyses for thirty years on the demography, geography and what he called the performance of scientists. Psychologists followed, systematically counting scientific papers in psychology at regular intervals from 1903 to the 1950s.

 

In order to celebrate the centennial, a series of events will also be organized in 2006, among then an international conference in Lugano (Switzerland), and a series of papers will be published on what has been accomplished so far in statistics on science, technology and innovation. Detail can be found at: http://www.csiic.ca/centennial.html.

 

Best regards.

 

Benoît Godin

professeur, INRS

(514) 499 4074

 

<mailto:ubenoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca> benoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca <mailto:benoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca> 

 

Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium

www.csiic.ca <http://www.csiic.ca/> 

 

Project on the history and sociology of S&T Statistics

www.csiic.ca/Pubs_histoire.html <http://www.csiic.ca/Pubs_histoire.html> 

 

 

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