Journal of Informetrics Wins 2008 ALPSP Award for Best New Journal

[Eliezer Geisler]

Dear Leo:

Hearty congratulations on this great achievement! 

With warm regards,

Elie

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Elie Geisler
Distinguished Professor
Director, CMMT
Stuart School of Business
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 W. Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Tel:(312) 906-6532



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From: Leo Egghe <leo.egghe at UHASSELT.BE>
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Date:          Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:20:12 +0200

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>Amsterdam, September 17th, 2008 – Elsevier is delighted to announce that the
>Journal of Informetrics (JOI) is the winner of the 2008 Association of
>Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for Best New
>Journal. The distinguished ALPSP award is open to journals launched within
>the past 3 years and considers a range of attributes including high quality
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>Edited by Leo Egghe, JOI is in its second year of publication and has
>published a wide range of high quality articles from leading authors across
>all fields of information science, several of which have policy implications
>for research evaluation. JOI has been accepted by ISI/Thomson for inclusion
>in the Social Science Citation Index and will receive its first Impact
>Factor in 2009. 
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>Over 3,700 institutions worldwide have online access to the full text of the
>journal and it is included within the UN HINARI, AGORA and OARE initiatives,
>providing free and low cost access to the journal in developing countries.
>JOI is also currently experimenting with new e-tools including links to the
>2Collab social network (http://www.2collab.com/), the ability to publish
>supplementary data sets and models, and engaging with ontologies for the
>advancement of understanding in the fields the journal serves.
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>According to Eugene Garfield, Chairman Emeritus ISI, President The Scientist
>LLC, Past President ASIS&T, “By lowering the barriers between these fields,
>expanding the boundaries of bibliometric research, and contributing to the
>increased degree of ‘exactness’ of informetrics, this journal will make a
>valuable contribution to the research community.”
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>Diane Cogan, Elsevier Publishing Director, remarked, “Given the increased
>focus on measurement, the creation of the H and G indices, and sustained
>growth in articles, JOI represents an invaluable home for leading research
>in this field.”
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>Commenting on the honor, Tony Roche, Elsevier Publisher of JOI noted, "This
>award is especially pleasing as Elsevier has worked hard to develop a
>journal which meets a real need within the research community.”
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>About Journal of Informetrics 
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>The mission of JOI is to focus upon fundamental quantitative aspects of
>information science, ‘hardening’ the field and lowering barriers between
>neighboring disciplines. To date, the journal has published a stream of high
>quality articles, several of which may have policy implications for research
>evaluation.  The journal, although limited to metrics aspects, has a broad
>scope: in principle, all quantitative analysis of original problems in
>information science are within the scope of JOI
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>tion#description> .  For more information visit: www.elsevier.com/locate/joi
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>About Elsevier
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>Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
>information products and services. Working in partnership with the global
>science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70
>offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per
>year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products,
>such as   ScienceDirect,   MD Consult,   Scopus, bibliographic databases,
>and online reference works. 
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>Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of   Reed Elsevier Group plc, a
>world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science
>and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed
>Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users,
>with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed
>Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock
>Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
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>Press release:
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>Date Sept 19th 2008
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>Contact Tony Roche, Publisher
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>Phone +44 1865 84 3471
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>E-mail t.roche at elsevier.com
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