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A. I. Yablonsky On fundamental regularities of the distribution of scientific productivity 3--34 J. E. Cohen Publication rate as a function of laboratory size in a biomedical research institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52 M. P. Carpenter and F. Narin The subject composition of the world's scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 53--63 S. D. Haitun Scientometric investigations in the USSR 65--84 J. Farkas and J. Balázs News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 D. Chubin and E. Garfield Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool? . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--94
K. D. Knorr and R. Mittermeir Publication productivity and professional position: Cross-national evidence on the role of organizations 95--120 V. A. Pokrovsky Some problems of measuring the impact of R&D upon the efficiency of social production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--132 J. D. Frame Measuring scientific activity in lesser developed countries . . . . . . . . . . 133--145 J. C. Sheldon A cybernetic theory of physical science professions: The causes of periodic normal and revolutionary science between 1000 and 1870AD . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--167 J. Farkas and Judith Balázs News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
C. Le Pair Switching between academic disciplines in universities in the Netherlands . . . 177--191 M. D. Gordon A critical reassessment of inferred relations between multiple authorship, scientific collaboration, the production of papers and their acceptance for publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201 M. Bonitz Evidence for the invalidity of the Bradford Law for the single scientist 203--214 W. S. Lyon Organization, attendance, speakers, and sessions: A study of four scientific conference series . . . . . . . . . . . 215--226 Julia Lawson and Barbara Kostrewski and C. Oppenheim A bibliometric study on a new subject field: Energy analysis . . . . . . . . . 227--237 M. J. Moravcsik and W. S. Lyon Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--242 J. Farkas and Judith Balázs News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--249
D. K. Simonton Techno-scientific activity and war: A yearly time-series analysis, 1500--1903 A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--255 G. Pinski Citation based measures of research interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--263 T. W. Dewitt and R. S. Nicholson and M. K. Wilson Science citation index and chemistry . . 265--275 H. Small and E. Greenlee Citation context analysis of a co-citation cluster: Recombinant--DNA 277--301 A. A. Manten Publication of scientific information is not identical with communication . . . . 303--308 D. Sullivan and D. Koester and D. H. White and R. Kern Understanding rapid theoretical change in particle physics: A month-by-month co-citation analysis . . . . . . . . . . 309--319 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--323
Harriet Zuckerman and Roberta Balstad Miller Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--330 H. Brooks Science indicators and science policy 331--337 H. Averch Science indicators and policy analysis 339--345 Harriet Zuckerman and Roberta Balstad Miller Indicators of science: Notes and queries 347--353 Rachel McCulloch International indicators of science and technology: How does the U.S. compare? 355--367 E. Mansfield Comments on ``International indicators of science and technology'' . . . . . . 369--373 R. B. Freeman Indicators of the impact of R&D on the economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--385 Nathan Rosenberg Comments on ``Indicators of the impact of R&D on the economy'' . . . . . . . . . 387--393 Charlotte V. Kuh Indicators of scientific manpower . . . 395--403 S. Cole Comments on ``Indicators of scientific manpower'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--409 J. Ben-David ``U.S. Science in international perspective'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421 D. de Solla Price Comments on ``U.S. science in an international perspective'' . . . . . . 423--428 R. Bowers Indicators of basic research in the physical sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 429--433 H. W. Riecken Vital signs for basic research in the behavioral and social sciences . . . . . 435--437 T. R. La Porte and D. Chisholm Indicators of public attitudes toward science and technology . . . . . . . . . 439--448 M. J. Moravcsik Science and science policy in the Arab world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--450 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--461
Anonymous Call for bibliographies . . . . . . . . 3--4 A. G. Heffner Funded research, multiple authorship, and subauthorship collaboration in four disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--12 Irina V. Marshakova Citation networks in information science 13--25 L. Leydesdorff and H. van Erkelens Some social-psychological aspects of becoming a physicist . . . . . . . . . . 27--45 D. de Solla Price The analysis of scientometric matrices for policy implications . . . . . . . . 47--53 D. de Solla Price The analysis of square matrices of scientometric transactions . . . . . . . 55--63 P. R. McAllister Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
M. Oromaner Cognitive consensus in recent mainstream American sociology: An empirical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84 G. Bindon Output measures of cooperative research: The case of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada . . . . . . . . . . 85--106 E. J. Malecki A note on the geographical concentration of scientific personnel in the USA . . . 107--114 Irene Hanson Frieze and J. M. Knoble and I. I. Mitroff American university students' beliefs about success in science: A case study 115--126 V. B. Chernogorenko and S. V. Muchnik Scientometric estimation of present-day study on phosphides . . . . . . . . . . 127--134 G. Folly and B. Hajtman and J. I. Nagy and I. Ruff Some methodological problems in ranking scientists by citation analysis . . . . 135--147 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154
Anonymous Call for bibliographies . . . . . . . . 157--158 J. D. Frame and D. R. Prokrym Counts of U.S. and Soviet science and technology journals . . . . . . . . . . 159--175 C. F. Turner and Sara B. Kiesler The impact of basic research in the social sciences: The case of education 177--190 J. J. Hubert A rank-frequency model for scientific productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--202 E. Nadel Citation and co-citation indicators of a phased impact of the BCS theory in the physics of superconductivity . . . . . . 203--221 V. I. Yanovsky Citation analysis significance of scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 223--233 W. M. Shaw, Jr. Information theory and scientific communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249 Belver C. Griffith Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252 L. Stern News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
Anonymous Call for bibliographies . . . . . . . . 263--264 M. Kochen and A. Blaivas A model for the growth of mathematical specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--273 J. P. Rushton and S. Meltzer Research productivity, university revenue, and scholarly impact (citations) of 169 British, Canadian and United States universities (1977) . . . 275--303 A. Van Heeringen Dutch research groups: Output and collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--315 I. Adamson The size of science in the old Nigerian Universities --- A preliminary analysis 317--324 T. F. Gieryn The aging of a science and its exploitation of innovation: Lessons from X-ray and radio astronomy . . . . . . . 325--334 John T. Bruer Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--343
Anonymous Call for bibliographies . . . . . . . . 347--348 D. H. Hall The earth and planetary sciences in science during the twentieth century . . 349--362 Clare E. Burke and D. de S. Price The distribution of citations from nation to nation on a field by field basis --- A computer calculation of the parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--377 A. Schubert and T. Braun Some scientometric measures of publishing performance for 85 Hungarian research institutes . . . . . . . . . . 379--388 T. Hastings A note on the utility of international publication data . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--396 J. Marton Changes in the time distribution of biochemical article references from 1962 to 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--400 H. Inhaber Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--402 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--410
Anonymous Call for bibliographies . . . . . . . . 413--414 P. M. Morse The underlying characteristics of the Bradford distribution . . . . . . . . . 415--436 G. G. Brunk and G. J. Jason The impact of warfare on the rate of invention: A time series analysis of United States patent activity . . . . . 437--455 C. D. Hurt A test of differences in the literature history of four historical accounts of the quantum mechanics problem . . . . . 457--466 J. E. Cohen Publication rate as a function of laboratory size in three biomedical research institutions . . . . . . . . . 467--487 Edith A. Moravcsik and Joshua Menkes Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--492 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--498
Anonymous Editorial and Advisory Board . . . . . . 3--3 S. D. Haitun Stationary scientometric distributions 5--25 G. M. Dobrov and I. V. Dziekovskaya Methods and results of studying the flow of information in the field of thin-film superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 27--44 M. Kochen and R. Crickman and A. Blaivas Distribution of scientific experts as recognized by peer consensus . . . . . . 45--56 S. Zsindely and A. Schubert and T. Braun Editorial gatekeeping patterns in international science journals. A new science indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68 S. Zsindely and A. Schubert and T. Braun Citation patterns of editorial gatekeepers in international chemistry journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76 S. D. Haitun and J. Davidson Frame and Belver C. Griffith Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--81 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--86
S. D. Haitun Stationary scientometric distributions 89--104 I. D. Chapman and C. Farina Concentration of resources: The National Research Council's (Canada) grants in aid of research: 1964--1974 . . . . . . 105--117 M. Jagodzinski-Sigogneau and J.-P. Courtial and B. Latour How to measure the degree of independence of a research system? . . . 119--133 J. Blickenstaff and M. J. Moravcsik Scientific output in the Third World . . 135--169 H. Inhaber and A. Schubert Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
S. D. Haitun Stationary scientometric distributions 181--194 M. J. Haigh Citation analysis of foreign sources in Japanese geographical serials . . . . . 195--203 E. Noma The simultaneous scaling of cited and citing articles in a common space . . . 205--231 Michael J. Moravcsik The social process of scientific investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--239 R. Hjerppe Supplement to a ``Bibliography of bibliometrics and citation indexing & analysis'' (Trita-lib-2013) . . . . . . 241--273
M. Bonitz and P. Schmidt Transition from the macrolevel to the microlevel of information at rank distribution investigations of the report literature of an international information system . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295 E. Noma An improved method for analyzing square scientometric transaction matrices . . . 297--316 P. B. Shelishch A quantitative study of biologists in the 18th and 19th centuries . . . . . . 317--329 B. Stefaniak Individual and Multiple Authorship of Papers in Chemistry and Physics . . . . 331--337 J. Blickenstaff Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--345
J. C. Smart and C. F. Elton Consumption factor scores of psychology journals: Scientometric properties and qualitative implications . . . . . . . . 349--360 M. E. D. Koenig Determinants of expert judgement of research performance . . . . . . . . . . 361--378 J. S. Long and R. McGinnis On adjusting productivity measures for multiple authorship . . . . . . . . . . 379--387 D. Lindsey Further evidence for adjusting for multiple authorship . . . . . . . . . . 389--395 J. S. Long and R. Mcginnis Further evidence for adjusting for multiple authorship . . . . . . . . . . 397--398 M. J. Moravcsik and E. Phillips and P. R. McAllister and G. Grupp Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--403 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410
C. A. Campbell and M. B. M. Campbell The validity of the Roy approximation for citation analysis . . . . . . . . . 411--416 W. E. Snizek and C. J. Dudley and J. E. Hughes The second process of peer review: Some correlates of comments published in the ASR (1947--1979) . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430 W. F. Yankevich Analysis of publication and invention productivity in some Soviet academic institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--437 T. Braun and J. I. Nagy A comparative evaluation of some Hungarian and other national biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--455 Anonymous World directory of research projects, studies and courses in science and technology policy . . . . . . . . . . . 457--462 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--467
Hildrun Kretschmer Representation of a complex structure measure for social groups and its application to the structure of citations in a journal . . . . . . . . . 5--30 L. G. Soete and Sally M. E. Wyatt The use of foreign patenting as an internationally comparable science and technology output indicator . . . . . . 31--54 P. B. Slater Hierarchical clustering of mathematical journals based upon citation matrices 55--58 A. Schubert and W. Glänzel Statistical reliability of comparisons based on the citation impact of scientific publications . . . . . . . . 59--73 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83 Hildrun Kretschmer The reflection of Lotka's Law in the structure of citations of a journal . . 85--92 J. P. Rushton and H. G. Murray and S. V. Paunonen Personality, research creativity, and teaching effectiveness in university professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--116 Rustum Roy and N. R. Roy and G. G. Johnson, Jr. Approximating total citation counts from first author counts and from total papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--124 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 125--133 András Schubert and Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137 Judit Balázs News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--142
J. Blickenstaff and M. J. Moravcsik The profile of an International Meeting 143--154 W. E. Snizek and M. Hughes An empirical assessment of the validity of Mullins' theory group classifications 155--162 C. H. Davis Institutional sectors of `mainstream' science production in Subsaharan Africa, 1970--1979: A quantitative analysis . . 163--175 A. Schubert and S. Zsindely and T. Braun Scientometric analysis of attendance at International Scientific Meetings . . . 177--187 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 189--194 Yakov M. Rabkin and J. Davidson Frame and S. D. Haitun and A. V. Pilipenko and Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--203 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--209
B. C. Peritz Are methodological papers more cited than theoretical or empirical ones? The case of sociology . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218 H. Eto and K. Makino Stochastic model for innovation and resulting skew distribution for technological concentration with verification in Japanese industry . . . 219--243 R. B. Baldauf and B. H. Jernudd, Jr. Language use patterns in the fisheries periodical literature . . . . . . . . . 245--255 J. van Houten and H. G. van Vuren and C. Le Pair and G. Dijkhuis Migration of physicists to other academic disciplines: Situation in the Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267 Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--272 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--276
Katherine W. McCain The author cocitation structure of macroeconomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--289 R. Todorov Condensed matter physics journals . . . 291--301 Bluma C. Peritz A classification of citation roles for the social sciences and related fields 303--312 J. G. Gregory Citation study of a scientific revolution: Sudden infant death syndrome 313--327 Marcel Roche Sciences and cultures . . . . . . . . . 329--331 Manfred Kochen The cognitive paradigm . . . . . . . . . 331--333 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--342
Mrs A. R. Rajeswari A quantitative analysis of Indian science and technology manpower employment and economic development . . 343--359 N. Midorikawa Citation analysis of physics journals: Comparison of subfields of physics . . . 361--374 S. D. Haitun The ``rank distortion'' effect and non-Gaussian nature of scientific activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--395 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 397--403 Thomas Eisemon and Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous In memoriam: Derek de Solla Price . . . 3--3 B. C. Griffith Derek Price (1922--1983) and the social studies of science . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7 Zhao Hong-Zhou An intelligence constant of scientific work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--17 M. M. Qurashi Publication rate as a function of the laboratory/group size . . . . . . . . . 19--26 J. E. Cohen Statistical theory aids inference in scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--32 Frances L. Hopkins New causal theory and ethnomethodology: Cocitation patterns across a decade . . 33--53 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science. A current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 55--59 W. S. Lyon Winning the games scientists play . . . 61--62 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66 R. B. Baldauf, Jr. and B. H. Jernudd Language use patterns in the fisheries periodical literature . . . . . . . . . 67--69
M. J. Moravcsik Life in a multidimensional world . . . . 75--85 M. D. Gordon Methodological pluralism in a multidimensional world . . . . . . . . . 87--92 S. D. Haitun Life in a multidimensional world . . . . 93--96 J. D. Frame Multidimensionality is alive and well in applied statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101 V. V. Nalimov Life in a multidimensional world . . . . 103--104 H. Inhaber Life in a multidimensional world . . . . 105--107 I. N. Sengupta The place of phenomenological studies in scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113 C. D. Hurt An examination of the literature distributions of three scientific specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126 R. Todorov Determination of influence weights for scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146 Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
A. Schubert and W. Glänzel A dynamic look at a class of skew distributions. A model with scientometric applications . . . . . . . 149--167 D. K. Simonton Scientific eminence historical and contemporary: A measurement assessment 169--182 H. Eto Bradford Law in R&D expending of firms and R&D concentration . . . . . . . . . . 183--188 A. M. Diamond, Jr. An economic model of the life-cycle research productivity of scientists . . 189--196 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 197--202 W. B. Brown and V. V. Nalimov Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--205 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--213
W. E. Snizek Casting the first rock: Some observations on the bestowers and recipients of journal article comments in sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--222 J. D. Frame Quantitative management of technology 223--232 Karmeshu and N. C. Lind and V. Cano Rationales for Bradford's Law . . . . . 233--241 J. Lerner and R. Roy Numbers, origins, economic value and quality of technically trained immigrants into the United States . . . 243--259 Thomas F. Gieryn and Michael J. Moravscik and Frederick Suppe Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--266 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--278
L. Pyenson and M. Singh Physics on the periphery: A world survey, 1920--1929 . . . . . . . . . . . 279--306 J. G. Gregory Citation study of a scientific revolution: Sudden infant death syndrome 2. The superseded paradigm . . . . . . . 307--326 Kari Poikolainen Organization and funding of medical research in 10 European countries . . . 327--358 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science. A current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 359--367 Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--367 J. D. Holmfeld Politics and the restraint of science 369--370 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--379
A. Rip and J.-P. Courtial Co-word maps of biotechnology: An example of cognitive scientometrics . . 381--400 K. E. Studer and E. J. Barboni and K. B. Numan Structural analysis using the input-output model: With special reference to networks of science . . . . 401--423 J. M. Richards, Jr. Structure of specialization among American population scientists . . . . . 425--432 A. Schubert and S. Zsindely and A. Telcs and T. Braun Quantitative analysis of a visible tip of the peer review iceberg: Book reviews in chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--443 A. Schubert and Michael J. Moravcsik and Sal Restivo Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--448 Anonymous Indicators of measurement of impact of science and technology on socio-economic development objectives . . . . . . . . . 449--463
M. Oromaner The Ortega Hypothesis and influential articles in American sociology . . . . . 3--10 P. Bakker and H. Rigter Editors of medical journals: Who and from where . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22 A. J. Nederhof Evaluating research output through life work citation counts . . . . . . . . . . 23--28 R. A. Leary A framework for assessing and rewarding a scientist's research productivity . . 29--38 Hildrun Kretschmer Cooperation structure, group size and productivity in research groups . . . . 39--53 P. R. McAllister and T. Condon Econometric analysis of biomedical research publishing patterns . . . . . . 55--75 K. Pavitt Patent statistics as indicators of innovative activities: Possibilities and problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--99 Catherine Balog The distribution of reference citations in two agricultural journals . . . . . . 101--104 Catherine Balog Authorship of papers dealing with different subjects in an agricultural journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--109 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science. A current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 111--117 M. J. Moravcsik and Jack Medows Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
Anonymous Instead of a preface . . . . . . . . . . 137--137 Anonymous Derek John de Solla Price memorial award 139--139 Anonymous Eugene Garfield wins the 1984 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . 141--141 M. J. Moravcsik Address at the presentation of the first Derek de Solla Price Award to Eugene Garfield on December 20, 1984 . . . . . 143--144 J. Marton Obsolescence or immediacy? Evidence supporting Price's hypothesis . . . . . 145--153 A. Schubert and S. Zsindely and T. Braun Scientometric indicators for evaluating medical research output of mid-size countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--163 M. J. Moravcsik Applied scientometrics: An assessment methodology for developing countries . . 165--176 Barbara Stefaniak Periodical literature of information science as reflected in \booktitleReferativnyj Zhurnal, section 59, informatika . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--194 R. Todorov Distribution of physics literature . . . 195--209 W. Glänzel and A. Schubert Price distribution. An exact formulation of Price's ``square root law'' . . . . . 211--219 D. E. Chubin Beyond invisible colleges: Inspirations and aspirations of post-1972 social studies of science . . . . . . . . . . . 221--254 J. S. Long and R. McGinnis The effects of the mentor on the academic career . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--280 J. Irvine and B. R. Martin Evaluating big science: CERN's past performance and future prospects . . . . 281--308 G. M. Dobrov and V. E. Tonkal Comparative analysis and estimation of competence of research units . . . . . . 309--325 M. Kochen and J. Lansing On maps for discovery: Did the periodic table guide elemental discovery? . . . . 327--339 C. Mombers and A. Van Heeringen and R. Van Venetië and C. Le Pair Displaying strengths and weaknesses in national R&D performance through document cocitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--355 N. C. Mullins Invisible colleges as science elites . . 357--368 F. Narin and E. Noma Is technology becoming science? . . . . 369--381 Elizabeth Smith Aversa Citation patterns of highly cited papers and their relationship to literature aging: A study of the working literature 383--389 H. Small and E. Sweeney Clustering the Science Citation Index$^\reg $ using co-citations . . . . 391--409 H. T. Christovão The aging of the literature of biomedical sciences in developed and developing countries . . . . . . . . . . 411--430 Susan E. Cozzens Using the archive: Derek Price's theory of differences among the sciences . . . 431--441 S. Cole and G. S. Meyer Little science, big science revisited 443--458 A. I. Yablonsky Stable non-Gaussian distributions in scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--470 M. Bonitz Journal ranking by selective impact. New method based on SDI results and journal impact factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--485 E. Garfield In tribute to Derek John de Solla Price: a citation analysis of little science, big sicence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--503 J. Vlachý Citation histories of scientific publications. The data sources . . . . . 505--528 T. Braun and S. Zsindely Growth of scientific literature and the Barnaby Rich effect . . . . . . . . . . 529--530
S. Arunachalam and S. Hiranaiah Has journal of astrophysics and astronomy a future? . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 A. T. Szabó Alphonse de Candolle's early scientometrics (1883, 1885) with references to recent trends in the field (1978--1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--33 W. Shrum Quality judgments of technical fields: Bias, marginality, and the role of the elite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--57 Zhao Hongzhou and Jiang Guohua Shifting of world's scientific center and scientists' social ages . . . . . . 59--80 Catherine Balog Agricultural research in New Zealand . . 81--89 J. M. Swales English language papers and authors' first language: Preliminary explorations 91--101 Barbara R. Davies and J. Martin Lazniarz A site selection model for high technology manufacturing firms in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116 S. Amir On the degree of interdisciplinarity of research programs: A quantitative assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--136 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science: a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 137--140 M. J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--143 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
H. F. Moed and W. J. M. Burger and J. G. Frankfort and A. F. J. Van Raan A comparative study of bibliometric past performance analysis and peer judgement 149--159 A. L. Porter and D. E. Chubin An indicator of cross-disciplinary research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--176 H. F. Moed and W. J. M. Burger and J. G. Frankfort and A. F. J. Van Raan The application of bibliometric indicators: Important field- and time-dependent factors to be considered 177--203 Lydia Lange Effects of disciplines and countries on citation habits. An analysis of empirical papers in behavioural sciences 205--215 A. N. Libkind One approach to study communication in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--231 Nevenka Pravdi\'c and R. Pekorari The citing practices of the authors to the national journals in mathematics, physics, and chemistry . . . . . . . . . 233--246 H. Rothman and G. Lester The use of bibliometric indicators in the study of insecticide research . . . 247--262 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--275
Michaela Aloni Patterns of information transfer among engineers and applied scientists in complex organizations . . . . . . . . . 279--300 S. Arunachalam and K. C. Garg A small country in a world of big science a preliminary bibliometric study of science in Singapore . . . . . . . . 301--313 A. M. Diamond, Jr. The money value of citations to single-authored and multiple-authored articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--320 H. Small and E. Sweeney and E. Greenlee Clustering the science citation index using co-citations. II. Mapping science 321--340 P. Doreian A measure of standing of journals in stratified networks . . . . . . . . . . 341--363 I. N. Sengupta The growth of biophysical literature . . 365--375 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--382
W. E. Snizek A re-examination of the Ortega Hypothesis: The Dutch case . . . . . . . 3--11 S. M. Lawani Some bibliometric correlates of quality in scientific research . . . . . . . . . 13--25 Zhao Hongzhou and Jiang Gouhua Life-span and precocity of scientists 27--36 A. Frijdal and J. P. De Greve Communication activities in scientific disciplines in Belgium . . . . . . . . . 37--49 Catherine Balog Information flow to genetics journals 51--57 J. Pontigo and F. W. Lancaster Qualitative aspects of the Bradford distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70 Léa Velho The ``meaning'' of citation in the context of a scientifically peripheral country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--89 V. V. Nalimov and Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
L. Leydesdorff The development of frames of references 103--125 D. K. Simonton Multiples, Poisson distributions, and chance: An analysis of the Brannigan--Wanner model . . . . . . . . 127--137 Yongyuth Yuthavong Bibliometric indicators of scientific activity in Thailand . . . . . . . . . . 139--143 L. L. Hargens Migration patterns of U.S. Ph.D.s among disciplines and specialties . . . . . . 145--164 G. A. Nesvetailov and I. G. Gurevich Analysis and Planning of a Series of Multisectional Scientific Conferences (Heat and Mass Transfer Case) . . . . . 165--176 R. Todorov and K. Atanassov Formal communication in science: A model based on generalized nets . . . . . . . 177--185 D. B. Herrmann Astronomy in the twentieth century . . . 187--191 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196
Yu. S. Lipatov and L. V. Denisenko On the behaviour of information flows in multicomponent polymer systems research 197--207 J. Jiménez and M. A. Navarro and M. W. Rees Scientific research areas in Mexico: Growth patterns in the late seventies 209--221 Vl. Simeon and B. Mom\vcilovi\'c and Z. Kralj and B. Grgas Multivariate statistical analysis of the bibliographic output from a research institution, in relation to the measures of scientific policy . . . . . . . . . . 223--230 A. Schubert and A. Telcs Publication potential --- an indicator of scientific strength for cross-national comparisons . . . . . . . 231--238 D. Crouch and J. Irvine and B. R. Martin Bibliometric analysis for science policy: An evaluation of the United Kingdom's research performance in ocean currents and protein crystallography . . 239--267 D. K. Simonton Multiple discovery: Some Monte Carlo simulations and Gedanken experiments . . 269--280 A. Schubert and T. Braun Relative indicators and relational charts for comparative assessment of publication output and citation impact 281--291 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 293--304 Robert P. Morgan Technology, finance and development: An analysis of the World Bank as a technological institution . . . . . . . 305--306 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--313
S. D. Haitun Problems of quantitative analysis of scientific activities: The non-additivity of data. Part I . . . . . 3--16 H. F. Moed and A. F. J. van Raan Observations and hypotheses on the phenomenon of multiple citation to a research group's oeuvre . . . . . . . . 17--33 L. O. Levine Prolific inventors --- a bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42 Subir K. Sen and Rameshi Kundra Bibliometrics of English language alcohol fuel literature. A new empirical equation of scatter . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 L. Egghe On the 80/20 rule . . . . . . . . . . . 55--68 O. Persson Online bibliometrics. A research tool for every man . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75 Y. Guay Emergence of basic research on the periphery: Organic chemistry in India, 1907--1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--94 H. Small and E. Greenlee Collagen research in the 1970s . . . . . 95--117 W. A. Blanpied and M. J. Moravcsik Modern science and human values . . . . 119--123 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--132
S. D. Haitun Problems of quantitative analysis of scientific activities: The non-additivity of data. Part II. Corollaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--155 P. Vinkler Evaluation of some methods for the relative assessment of scientific publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--177 M. J. Moravcsik The classification of science and the science of classification . . . . . . . 179--197 M. Krauskopf and R. Pessot and R. Vicuña Science in Latin America how much and along what lines? . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206 A. Méndez and I. Gómez The Spanish scientific productivity through eight international databases 207--219 Kathryn Riley and Robert P. Multhauf and A. Donovan Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--225 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234
I. N. Sengupta Three new parameters in bibliometric research and their application to rerank periodicals in the field of biochemistry 235--242 F. W. Lancaster and Maria A. Porta and Kathryn Plagenz and Krys Szymborski and Marjorie Krebs Factors influencing sources cited by scientists: A case study for Cuba . . . 243--257 Nevenka Pravdi\'c and Vesna Olui\'c-Vukovi\'c Dual approach to multiple authorship in the study of collaboration/scientific output relationship . . . . . . . . . . 259--280 Lydia Lange Interactions between disciplines and countries in methodical preferences for empirical research . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295 J. C. Smart and A. E. Bayer Author collaboration and impact: A note on citation rates of single and multiple authored articles . . . . . . . . . . . 297--305 R. Senter, Jr. A causal model of productivity in a research facility . . . . . . . . . . . 307--328 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--333
A. T. Balaban Aurel Avramescu (1903--1985) . . . . . . 3--5 Igor V. Blauberg and Andrey A. Ignatyev and Eduard M. Mirsky and Vadim N. Sadovsky and Alexander P. Uzdemir A. I. Yablonsky (1936--1986) . . . . . . 7--8 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert One more version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact of 107 countries 1978--1980 . . . . . . . . . . 9--15 W. D. Daniels Choosing input indicators for research managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25 H. Eto and P. M. Candelaria Applicability of the Bradford distribution to international science and technology indicators . . . . . . . 27--42 D. A. De Stefano Citation analysis and adaptive radiation 43--51 M. J. Moravcsik In the Beholder's eye: A possible reinterpretation of Velho's results on Brazilian agricultural research . . . . 53--57 Lea Velho The author and the beholder: How paradigm commitments can influence the interpretation of research results . . . 59--70 P. Doreian A revised measure of standing of journals in stratified networks . . . . 71--80 L. Egghe An exact calculation of Price's Law for the law of Lotka . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97 M. D. Puzikov and A. E. Kasjanov Quantitative estimation of ``big'' and ``little'' science interrelation . . . . 99--104 Melvin Kranzberg and David Eli Drew and Yongyuth Yuthavong and Marcel Roche Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--122
Anonymous Michael J. Moravcsik wins the 1985 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . 123--123 J. Davidson Frame Comments on Michael J. Moravcsik, recipient of the third Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert One more version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact in the life sciences and chemistry 1978--1980 . . . 127--140 S. Pruthi and P. S. Nagpaul and S. A. Nabi Indicators of research planning: A comparative study of research groups in six countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--161 M. Kunz Time spectra of patent information . . . 163--173 Yu. S. Lipatov and L. V. Denisenko Intormation flows in the subfields of multicomponent polymer systems and trends of their development . . . . . . 175--182 Ye-Sho Chen and F. F. Leimkuhler Bradford's Law: An index approach . . . 183--198 D. H. Hall The interface between geoscience and industry: A case study of the interaction between research and the discovery and mining of ores for nuclear fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--216 R. Rousseau The Gozinto Theorem: Using citations to determine influences on a scientific publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--229 A. P. Trofimenko Scientometric analysis of the development of nuclear physics during the last 50 years . . . . . . . . . . . 231--250 A. M. Diamond, Jr. An optimal control model of the life-cycle research productivity of scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--259
Anonymous Tibor Braun wins the 1986 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261 M. J. Moravscik Comments on Tibor Braun, recipient of the third Derek de Solla Price Award . . 263--264 A. Van Heeringen and P. A. Dijkwel The relationships between age, mobility and scientific productivity. Part I . . 267--280 A. Van Heeringen and P. A. Dijkwel The relationships between age, mobility and scientific productivity. Part II . . 281--293 L. Leydesdorff Various methods for the mapping of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--324 A. F. J. van Raan and D. Hartmann The comparative impact of scientific publications and journals: Methods of measurement and graphical display . . . 325--331 A. J. Nederhof and A. F. J. Van Raan Peer review and bibliometric indicators of scientific performance: A comparison of cum laude doctorates with ordinary doctorates in physics . . . . . . . . . 333--350 R. J. W. Tijseen and J. De Leeuw and A. F. J. Van Raan Quasi-correspondence analysis on scientometric transaction matrices . . . 351--366 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--369
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert One more version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact in physics and mathematics 1978--1980 . . . . . . . . . 3--16 C. G. Prabha and F. W. Lancaster Comparing the scatter of citing and cited literature . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31 D. K. Gupta Lotka's Law and productivity patterns of entomological research in Nigeria for the period, 1900--1973 . . . . . . . . . 33--46 P. Vinkler A quasi-quantitative citation model . . 47--72 Jane M. Russell and M. Mendoza and G. Martinez Patterns of literature citation by undergraduate students and researchers in the veterinary field . . . . . . . . 73--80 A. Méndez and I. Gómez and M. T. Fernández and G. López Aguado Six years of Spanish scientific activity in physics and engineering through INSPEC and COMPENDEX . . . . . . . . . . 81--100 J. G. Shaw Article-by-article citation analysis of medical journals . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110 G. G. Brunk and G. Demack Short-run trends in United States patent activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--133 J. Davidson Frame and F. Narin The growth of Chinese scientific research, 1973--84 . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--148
Barbara Stefaniak Use of bibliographic data bases for scientometric studies . . . . . . . . . 149--161 Lidia Bialoñ Research and development potential of Polish industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--177 A. Jakubowski and R. Kulikowski and D. Wagner Allocation of research funds in competitive environment. A computerized negotiation system . . . . . . . . . . . 179--196 S. M. Kot The stochastic model of evolution of scientific disciplines . . . . . . . . . 197--205 Anna Lewicka-Strzalecka Dynamics and structure of systems science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--219 W. Okrasa Differences in scientific productivity of research units: Measurement and analysis of output inequality . . . . . 221--239 Anna Sitarska Scientometrics and bibliometrics in the Warsaw University curriculum of library and information science: Place and field structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--257 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--265
A. Schubert and W. Glänzel and T. Braun Subject field characteristic citation scores and scales for assessing research performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--291 M. H. Macroberts and Barbara R. Macroberts Testing the Ortega Hypothesis: Facts and artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295 M. B. Line The shoulders of giants, or the backs of mice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298 M. J. Moravcsik We must ask questions before giving answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--301 V. V. Nalimov Scientists are not acrobats . . . . . . 303--304 L. Leydesdorff Towards a theory of citation? . . . . . 305--309 W. E. Snizek In search of influence: The testing of the Ortega Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 311--314 A. J. Meadows Ortega hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316 M. Oromaner Ortega, obliteration and policy consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--319 S. M. Lawani The Ortega Hypothesis, individual differences, and cumulative advantage 321--323 A. J. Nederhof and A. F. J. Van Raan Citation theory and the Ortega Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--328 Harriet Zuckerman Citation analysis and the complex problem of intellectual influence . . . 329--338 H. Small The significance of bibliographic references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341 F. Narin To believe or not to believe . . . . . . 343--344 S. Cole and J. R. Cole Testing the Ortega Hypothesis: Milestone or millstone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--353 Hildrun Kretschmer The adaptation of the cooperation structure to the research process and scientific performances in research groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372 R. N. Broadus Toward a definition of ``bibliometrics'' 373--379 L. O. Nordstrom Applied versus basic science in the literature of plant biology: A bibliometric perspective . . . . . . . . 381--393 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 395--412 V. Jaccerino Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--417 M. B. Line Letter to editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--419 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--424
T. Braun and A. Schubert Scientometric versus socio-economic indicators. Scatter plots for 51 countries. 1978--1980 . . . . . . . . . 3--9 I. I. Purica Creativity, intelligence and synergetic processes in the development of science 11--24 M. Kunz A case study against Haitun's conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33 S. D. Haitun On M. Kunz's article ``A case study against Haitun's conjectures'' . . . . . 35--44 P. Nieuwenhuysen and R. Rousseau A quick and easy method to estimate the random effect on citation measures . . . 45--52 Judith B. Wood The growth of scholarship: An online bibliometric comparison of dissertations in the sciences and humanities . . . . . 53--62 A. G. Flor The information wastage ratio: Towards a theory of rates of information generation and utilization . . . . . . . 63--69 Anonymous News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
F. Van Steijn and A. Rip The role of trade literature in the communication system . . . . . . . . . . 81--91 J. Swales Language and scientific communication: The case of the reprint request . . . . 93--101 A. L. Porter and D. E. Chubin and Xiao-Yin Jin Citations and scientific progress: Comparing bibliometric measures with scientist judgments . . . . . . . . . . 103--124 K. Kaneiwa and J. Adachi and M. Aoki and T. Masuda and A. Midorikawa and A. Tanimura and S. Yamazaki A comparison between the journals nature and science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133 D. B. Herrmann How old were the authors of significant research in twentieth century astronomy at the time of their greatest achievements? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--137 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science: a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 139--172 W. S. Lyon and R. Martin Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--179
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert The newest version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact of 100 countries 1981--1985 . . . . . . . . . . 181--188 Y. Guay Internationalization of industrial research: The pharmaceutical industry; 1965--1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--213 R. Over Does scholarly impact decline with age? 215--223 F. A. Ehikhamenor Perceived state of science in Nigerian universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--238 P. Vinkler An attempt of surveying and classifying bibliometric indicators for scientometric purposes . . . . . . . . . 239--259 K. C. Garg and M. K. D. Rao Bibliometric analysis of scientific productivity: A case study of an Indian physics laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269 H. Eto Rising tail in Bradford distribution: Its interpretation and application . . . 271--287 M. Kunz Lotka and Zipf: Paper dragons with fuzzy tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--297 C. Kruytbosch and M. J. Moravcsik Letter to editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300 D. A. Bromley Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--303 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--310
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert The newest version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact in the life sciences and chemistry 1981--1985 . . . 3--15 J. Jiménez and P. Hunya and M. Bayona and A. Halász The S & T potential of Mexico and Hungary 17--41 R. Chakravarthy and A. Chawla and G. Mehta Women scientists at work --- an international comparative study of six countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--74 D. Lindsey Assessing precision in the manuscript review process: A little better than a dice roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82 S. Arunachalam and K. Manorama How do journals on the periphery compare with mainstream scientific journals? . . 83--95 B. S. Frey and W. W. Pommerehne The American domination among eminent economists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110 Nevenka Pravdi\'c and Alena Aganovi\'c-Boras and Dubravka Kritovac In search of a ``Non-citation index'' indicator for scientific activity assessment in less developed countries. Case study of Croatia/Yugoslavia . . . . 111--125 J. S. Kidd The popularization of science: Some basic measurements . . . . . . . . . . . 127--142 N. Onodera A frequency distribution function derived from a stochastic model considering human behaviors and its comparison with an empirical bibliometric distribution . . . . . . . 143--159 P. Vinkler Weighted impact of publications and relative contribution score. Two new indicators characterizing publication activity of countries . . . . . . . . . 161--163 H. Small Mapping the dynamics of science and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--168 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--175
P. Healey and J. Irvine and B. R. Martin Introduction: Quantitative science-policy studies in the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183 D. C. Phillips and J. Turney Bibliometrics and UK science policy . . 185--200 P. M. D. Collins Research performance and migration: Two SEPSU studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211 M. P. Carpenter and F. Gibb and M. Harris and J. Irvine and B. R. Martin and F. Narin Bibliometric profiles for British academic institutions: An experiment to develop research output indicators . . . 213--233 I. Crewe Reputation, research and reality: The publication records of UK Departments of Politics, 1978--1984 . . . . . . . . . . 235--250 J. Law and S. Bauin and J.-P. Courtial and J. Whittaker Policy and the mapping of scientific change: A co-word analysis of research into environmental acidification . . . . 251--264 W. L. Giusti and L. Georghiou The use of co-nomination analysis in real-time evaluation of an R&D programme 265--281 J. A. Mcginnety The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC): Recent experiences with quantitative science policy studies . . 283--293 J. King The use of bibliometric techniques for institutional research evaluation: A study of avian virology research . . . . 295--313 M. Porteous The role and development of quantitative indicators for research and technology policy making: Some experience from the Department of Trade and Industry . . . . 315--327 K. Pavitt The size and structure of British technology activities: What we do and do not know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--346 Michael J. Moravcsik Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--357
Anonymous Vasilij Vasilevich Nalimov and Henry Small win the 1987 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359 A. F. J. Van Raan Comments on Henry Small, recipient of the 1987 Derek de Solla Price Award . . 361--363 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert The newest version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact in physics, engineering and mathematics 1981--1985 365--382 P. S. Nagpaul and V. S. R. Krishnaiah Dimensions of research planning: Comparative study of research units in six countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--410 A. Hohenester and L. Mathelitsch and M. J. Moravcsik The usage of `theory' and `model' in scientific conceptualization . . . . . . 411--420 Isola Ajiferuke and Q. Burell and Jean Tague Collaborative coefficient: A single measure of the degree of collaboration in research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433 W. Nasierowski The essence and dilemmas of measurement in the sciences of organization . . . . 435--452 P. Vinkler Bibliometric features of some scientific subfields and the scientometric consequences therefrom . . . . . . . . . 453--474 A. J. Nederhof Changes in publication patterns of biotechnologists: An evaluation of the impact of government stimulation programs in six industrial nations . . . 475--485 L. N. Kryzhanovsky An application of bibliometrics to the history of electricity . . . . . . . . . 487--492 L. Egghe and R. Rousseau Reflections on a deflection: A note on different causes of the Groos droop . . 493--511 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science: a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 513--520 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--527
Anonymous Vasilij Vasilevich Nalimov whins the 1987 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . 5--5 Yu V. Granovsky Comments on V. V. Nalimov recipient of the 1987 Derek de Solla Price Award . . 7--12 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert The newest version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact. A collection of relational charts, 1981--1985 . . . . 13--20 G. Dobrov and A. Skofenko Fuzzy expertise and its application to R&D management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 Yu V. Granovsky Scientometrics, theory of experiment and optimization of research . . . . . . . . 33--43 S. D. Haitun Science studies and natural sciences: Which is primary, distribution or interdependence between variables? . . . 45--58 A. A. Korennoi Information co-modelling of a network of research institutions . . . . . . . . . 59--71 L. Malciené Scientometric analysis of a scientific school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--85 O. I. Mokhov About statistics of the extreme values and the rank form of scientometric distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96 V. M. Motylev The main problems of studying literature aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--109 S. V. Orlov and A. N. Vasiljev Possible treatment of the Bonitz--Gross effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--126 J. T. Sharabchiev Cluster analysis of bibliographic references as a scientometric method . . 127--137 S. I. Doroshenko and S. D. Haitun Quantitative studies of science: a bibliography of Soviet publications . . 139--154 V. Kostyuk and J. Schreider Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert Assessing assessments of British science. Some facts and figures to accept or decline . . . . . . . . . . . 165--170 D. K. Gupta Scientometric study of biochemical literature of Nigeria, 1970--1984: Application of Lotka's Law and the $ 80 $ /$ 20$-Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--179 I. I. Purica Creativity and the socio-cultural niche 181--187 D. Lindsey Using citation counts as a measure of quality in science measuring what's measurable rather than what's valid . . 189--203 S. Kyvik Productivity differences fields of learning, and Lotka's Law . . . . . . . 205--214 Ch. H. Davis and Th. O. Eisemon Mainstream and non mainstream scientific literature in four peripheral Asian scientific communities . . . . . . . . . 215--239 J. S. Kidd The popularization of science II: Patterns of topical coverage . . . . . . 241--255 R. E. Rice and Christine L. Borgman and Diane Bednarski and P. J. Hart Journal-to-journal citation data: Issues of validity and reliability . . . . . . 257--282 R. J. W. Tijssen and A. F. J. Van Raan Mapping co-word structures: A comparison of multidimensional scaling and leximappe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295 S. Yamazaki Referee systems of English-language scientific journals in Japan . . . . . . 297--303 R. Rousseau Merging data sets . . . . . . . . . . . 305--308 Haichao Han Linear increase law of optimum age of scientific creativity . . . . . . . . . 309--312 Dan H. Yaalon and Jean Tague Book reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--315 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323
T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert Some data on the distribution of journal publication types in the science citation index database . . . . . . . . 325--330 L. Leydesdorff The relations between qualitative theory and scientometric methods in science and technology studies . . . . . . . . . . . 333--347 Terttu Luukkonen Publish in a visible journal of perish? Assessing citation performance of Nordic cancer research . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--367 J. Irvine and B. R. Martin International comparisons of scientific performance revisited . . . . . . . . . 369--392 S. Arunachalam and K. Manorama Are citation-based quantitative techniques adequate for measuring science on the periphery? . . . . . . . 393--408 P. Groenewegen Influences of local and organizational factors on output indicators . . . . . . 409--422 A. J. Nederhof and R. A. Zwaan and R. E. De Bruin and P. J. Dekker Assessing the usefulness of bibliometric indicators for the humanities and the social and behavioural sciences: A comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435 Susan E. Cozzens What do citations count? the rhetoric-first model . . . . . . . . . . 437--447 Olga Amsterdamska and L. Leydesdorff Citations: Indicators of significance? 449--471 H. F. Moed Bibliometric measurement of research performance and Price's theory of differences among the sciences . . . . . 473--483 R. P. Hagendijk and J. W. Smeenk The analysis of national subfields: a case study of Dutch fresh-water ecology 485--508 W. Van Rossum Operationalizing developments in a problem field: The case of MBD . . . . . 509--526 J. P. Courtial Qualitative models, quantitative tools and network analysis . . . . . . . . . . 527--534 F. Bastide and J. P. Courtial and M. Callon The use of review articles in the analysis of a research area . . . . . . 535--562 E. Kranakis and L. Leydesdorff Teletraffic conferences: Studying a field of engineering science . . . . . . 563--591 R. Todorov Representing a scientific field: A bibliometric approach . . . . . . . . . 593--605 A. F. J. Van Raan and H. P. F. Peters Dynamics of a scientific field analysed by co-subfield structures . . . . . . . 607--620 Aida Méndez and Isabel Gómez A comparison of citation classics in three fields of science . . . . . . . . 621--631 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--638
A. Schubert and W. Glänzel and T. Braun Scientometric datafiles. A comprehensive set of indicators on 2649 journals and 96 countries in all major science fields and subfields 1981--1985 . . . . . . . . 3--478
Anonymous Francis Narin wins the 1988 Derek John de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 A. F. J. Van Raan Comments on Francis Narin, recipient of the 1988 Derek de Solla Price Award . . 5--7 A. Korennoi Gennady M. Dobrov 1929--1989 . . . . . . 9--10 T. Braun and W. Glänzel and A. Schubert National publication patterns and citation impact in the multidisciplinary journals \booktitleNature and \booktitleScience . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14 D. H. Hall Rate of growth of literature in geoscience from computerized databases 15--38 Blaise Cronin and Judith Licea de Arenas The geographic distribution of Mexican health sciences research . . . . . . . . 39--48 Ph. C. Self and Th. W. Filardo and F. W. Lancaster Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the epidemic growth of its literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--60 H. Dou and P. Hassanaly and L. Quoniam Infographic analytical tools for decision makers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70 R. Plomp Statistical reliability of citation frequency as an indicator of scientific impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81 L. P. Moral Elements for a diagnosis of applied research and development in Cuba using patent information: 1968--1983 . . . . . 83--96 Vesna Olui\'c-Vukovi\'c Impact of productivity increase on the distribution pattern of journals . . . . 97--109 L. Leydesdorff The science citation index and the measurement of national performance in terms of numbers of scientific publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120 R. Gillett Determining the best departments by their best publications: A strategy best avoided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125 Katherine W. McCain and Kathleen Turner Citation context analysis and aging patterns of journal articles in molecular genetics . . . . . . . . . . . 127--163 L. N. Kryzhanovsky Mapping the history of electricity . . . 165--170 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 171--180 Michael J. Moravcsik Evaluating applied research --- lessons from Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--190
T. Braun Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194 S. K. Sen Bibliographic scattering: A generalised source approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--204 S. K. Sen A note on theoretical correlation between Bradford's Law and recently proposed linear equation of the type $ R(r) = a.r - b $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210 S. Naranan ``Power law'' version of Bradford's Law: Statistical tests and methods of estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--226 A. R. Rajeswari Forecasting of science & technology expenditure of India by simulation method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--251 I. N. Sengupta The growth of knowledge and literature in neuroscience . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--288 I. N. Sengupta A weightage formula to rerank periodicals in the field of microbiology 289--300 P. S. Nagpaul and S. P. Gupta Effect of professional competence, managerial role and status of group leaders to R&D performance . . . . . . . 301--331 Prithpal Singh and V. S. R. Krishnaiah Analysis of work climate perceptions and performance of research and development units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--351 L. Kumari and I. N. Sengupta Growth of Lectin literature: 1954--1982 353--361 K. Satyanarayana and K. V. Ratnakar Authorship patterns in life sciences, preclinical basic and clinical research papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--371 A. Schubert Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 373--380 J. Farkas News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--385
Y. A. Shenhav and Y. Haberfeld and B. P. Cohen Contextual analysis of team productivity in the R&D industry . . . . . . . . . . . 387--400 A. Pouris A scientometric assessment of agricultural research in South Africa 401--413 W. P. Van Els and C. N. M. Jansz and C. Le Pair The citation gap between printed and instrumental output of technological research: The case of the electron microscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--425 A. J. Nederhof and A. F. J. Van Raan A validation study of bibliometric indicators: The comparative performance of cum laude doctorates in chemistry . . 427--435 Y. Chatelin and R. Arvanitis Between centers and peripheries . . . . 437--452
T. Kealey Government-funded academic science is a consumer good, not a producer good: A comparative reassessment of Britain's scientific and technological achievements since 1794 and a comment on the bibliometry of B. Martin and J. Irvine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--394