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L. L. Hargens and J. R. Herting Neglected considerations in the analysis of agreement among journal referees . . 91--106
D. Lindsey Precision in the manuscript review process: Hargens and Herting revisited 313--325
L. Egghe An explanation of the relation between the fraction of multinational publications and the fractional score of a country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--310
Ana M. Ramírez and Esther O. García and J. Antonio Del Río Renormalized Impact Factor . . . . . . . 3--9 L. Erik Clavería and Eliseo Guallar and Jordi Camí and José Conde and Roberto Pastor and José R. Ricoy and Eduardo Rodríguez-Farré and Fernando Ruiz-Palomo and Emilio Muñoz Does Peer Review Predict the Performance of Research Projects in Health Sciences? 11--23 Hajime Eto Authorship and Citation Patterns in Operational Research Journals in Relation to Competition and Reform . . . 25--42 Thijs Pollman Forgetting and the Ageing of Scientific Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 Ying Ding and Gobinda G. Chowdhury and Schubert Foo Journal as Markers of Intellectual Space: Journal Co-Citation Analysis of Information Retrieval Area, 1987--1997 55--73 Daisy Jacobs and Peter Ingwersen A Bibliometric Study of the Publication Patterns in the Sciences of South African Scholars 1981--96 . . . . . . . 75--93 Parthasarathi Banerjee and B. M. Gupta and K. C. Garg Patent Statistics as Indicators of Competition an Analysis of Patenting in Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--116 Masashi Shirabe and Yuko Fujigaki The Introduction of Economic Methods to Scientometrics: The Citing--Cited Table and the Autopoietic Systems of Citations 117--130 Sujit Bhattacharya and Chandra Pal and Jagdish Arora Inside the Frontier Areas of Research in Physics: A Micro Level Analysis . . . . 131--142 Yang Lin and Lynda L. Kaid Fragmentation of the Intellectual Structure of Political Communication Study: Some Empirical Evidence . . . . . 143--164 S. L. Sangam P. S. Nagpaul, K. C. Garg, B. M. Gupta, Editors Emerging Trends in Scientometrics: Essays in Honour of Dr. Ashok Jain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Peter van den Besselaar Communication between Science and Technology Studies Journals: A Case Study in Differentiation and Integration in Scientific Fields . . . . . . . . . . 169--193 Jan Bogaert and Ronald Rousseau and Piet Van Hecke Percolation as a Model for Informetric Distributions: Fragment Size Distribution Characterised by Bradford Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--206 Julien Van Borm and Jan Corthouts and Richard Philips Performance Measurement in the Belgian Document Ordering and Delivery System Impala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--225 Paul De Bra Using Hypertext Metrics to Measure Research Output Levels . . . . . . . . . 227--236 Leo Egghe The Distribution of $N$-Grams . . . . . 237--252 Margriet C. N. Jansz Some Thoughts on the Interaction between Scientometrics and Science and Technology Policy . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264 Loet Leydesdorff Is the European Union Becoming a Single Publication System? . . . . . . . . . . 265--280 Marc Luwel A Bibliometric Profile of Flemish Research in Natural, Life and Technical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--302 Stéphane Malo and Aldo Geuna Science-Technology Linkages in an Emerging Research Platform: The Case of Combinatorial Chemistry and Biology . . 303--321 Henk F. Moed Bibliometric Indicators Reflect Publication and Management Strategies 323--346 Anthony F. J. van Raan On Growth, Ageing, and Fractal Differentiation of Science . . . . . . . 347--362 Ed J. Rinia Scientometric Studies and Their Role in Research Policy of Two Research Councils in The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . 363--378 Ronald Rousseau and Mark Smeyers Output-Financing at LUC . . . . . . . . 379--387 R. J. W. Tussen and R. K. Buter and Th. N. van Leeuwen Technological Relevance of Science: An Assessment of Citation Linkages between Patents and Research Papers . . . . . . 389--412 Raúl G. Torricella-Morales and Guido Van Hooydonk and Juan Antonio Araujo-Ruiz Citation Analysis of Cuban Research. Part 1. A Case Study: The \booktitleCuban Journal of Agricultural Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--426 Bart Verspagen The Role of Large Multinationals in the Dutch Technology Infrastructure. A Patent Citation Analysis . . . . . . . . 427--448 Henk F. Moed Speech Delivered at the 7th International Conference on Scientometric and Informetrics in Colima (1999) in the Honour of Dr. Cornelius Le Pair on the Occasion of His Retirement 449--450
Yoshiko Okubo An Introduction to Scientometrics Research in France . . . . . . . . . . . 451--455 Rigas Arvanitis and Roland Waast and Jacques Gaillard Science in Africa: A Bibliometric Panorama Using PASCAL Database . . . . . 457--473 Jean-Christophe Doré and Christian Dutheuil and Jean-François Miquel Multidimensional Analysis of Trends in Patent Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--492 Regina Gusmão Developing and Using Indicators of Multilateral S&T Cooperation for Policy Making: The Experience from European Research Programmes . . . . . . . . . . 493--514 Philippe Larédo and Philippe Mustar Laboratory Activity Profiles: An Exploratory Approach . . . . . . . . . . 515--539 Stéphane Lemarié and Marie-Ang\`ele de Looze and Vincent Mangematin Strategies of European SMEs in Biotechnology: The Role of Size, Technology and Market . . . . . . . . . 541--560 Jean-Michel Salaün and Thierry Lafouge and Cherifa Boukacem Demand for Scientific Articles and Citations: An Example from the Institut de l'information scientifique et technique (France) . . . . . . . . . . . 561--588 Anne Sigogneau An Analysis of Document Types Published in Journals Related to Physics: Proceeding Papers Recorded in the Science Citation Index Database . . . . 589--604 Aline Solari and Marie-Helene Magri A New Approach to the SCI Journal Citation Reports, a System for Evaluating Scientific Journals . . . . . 605--625 Michel Zitt and Elise Bassecoulard and Yoshiko Okubo Shadows of the Past in International Cooperation: Collaboration Profiles of the Top Five Producers of Science . . . 627--657
Juan Carlos Anduckia and Julián Gómez and Yuri Jack Gómez Bibliometric Output from Colombian Researchers with Approved Projects by COLCIENCIAS between 1983 and 1994 . . . 3--25 Alka Prasad and Srinivasan Visalakshi Trends and Profile in Enzyme Engineering Research during 1971--98 . . . . . . . . 27--44 Santosh K. Nanda and Ariel L. Rivas and William M. Trochim and J. David Deshler Emphasis on Validation in Research: A Meta-Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--64 Helmut A. Abt Do Important Papers Produce High Citation Counts? . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70 Yasar Tonta Contribution of Turkish Researchers to the World's Biomedical Literature (1988--1997) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--84 Hajime Eto Bibliometric Distance between Methodology and Application in Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--97 Mushin Lee and Kiyong Om and Joon Koh The Bias of Sighted Reviewers in Research Proposal Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Blind and Open Review in Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--116
Irene Wormell Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Workshop in Bibliometrics Copenhagen (Denmark), August 27--28, 1999 . . . . . . . . . . 117--120 Wolfgang Glänzel Science in Scandinavia: A Bibliometric Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--150 Martin Meyer Patent Citations in a Novel Field of Technology --- What Can They Tell about Interactions between Emerging Communities of Science and Technology? 151--178 Anna Sandström and Ingrid Pettersson and Anna Nilsson Knowledge Production and Knowledge Flows in the Swedish Biotechnology Innovation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--201 Irene Wormell Bibliometric Analysis of the Welfare Topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--236 Irene Wormell Critical Aspects of the Danish Welfare State --- as Revealed by Issue Tracking 237--250 András Schubert Scientometrics in Medicine-Related Fields 1990--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . 251--284
Juan Carlos Anduckia and Julián Gómez and Yuri Jack Gómez Some Features of Colombian Research Population (1983--1994) . . . . . . . . 285--305 Ann Rudinow Sætnan To Screen or Not to Screen? Science Discourse in Two Health Policy Controversies, As Seen through Three Approaches to the Citation Evidence . . 307--344 Leo Egghe A Heuristic Study of the First-Citation Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--359 Andrés Zelman and Loet Leydesdorff Threaded Email Messages in Self-Organization and Science & Technology Studies Oriented Mailing Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380 Aparna Basu and B. S. Vinu Kumar International Collaboration in Indian Scientific Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 381--402 Virginia Trimble Some Characteristics of Young vs. Established American Astronomers: Entering the New Century . . . . . . . . 403--411 Jae-Yong Choung and Hye-Ran Hwang National Systems of Innovation: Institutional Linkages and Performances in the Case of Korea and Taiwan . . . . 413--426 Farideh Osareh and Concepción S. Wilson A Comparison of Iranian Scientific Publications in the Science Citation Index: 1985--1989 and 1990--1994 . . . . 427--442
Dag W. Aksnes and Terje Bruen Olsen and Per O. Seglen Validation of Bibliometric Indicators in the Field of Microbiology: A Norwegian Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--22 Richard Danell Stratification among Journals in Management Research: A Bibliometric Study of Interaction between European and American Journals . . . . . . . . . 23--38 Peter Ingwersen The International Visibility and Citation Impact of Scandinavian Research Articles in Selected Social Science Fields: The Decay of a Myth . . . . . . 39--61 Eric J. Iversen An Excursion into the Patent-Bibliometrics of Norwegian Patenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--80 Paula Mählck and Olle Persson Socio-Bibliometric Mapping of Intra-Departmental Networks . . . . . . 81--91 Martin Meyer What is Special about Patent Citations? Differences between Scientific and Patent Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--123 Per O. Seglen and Dag W. Aksnes Scientific Productivity and Group Size: A Bibliometric Analysis of Norwegian Microbiological Research . . . . . . . . 125--143 O. Halla Thorsteinsdóttir External Research Collaboration in Two Small Science Systems . . . . . . . . . 145--160 Sara von Ungern-Sternberg Bradford's Law in the Context of Information Provision . . . . . . . . . 161--186
Angel Pestaña and Sebastián Cerdán Spanish Scientific Productivity and Equipment in Magnetic Resonance from a Regional and European Perspective . . . 215--231 Lluís Rovira and Pau Senra and David Jou Bibliometric Analysis of Physics in Catalonia: Towards Quality Consolidation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--256 Judit Bar-Ilan Results of an Extensive Search for ``S&T Indicators'' on the Web: A Content Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--277 M. M. S. Karki and K. C. Garg and Praveen Sharma Activity and Growth of Organic Chemistry Research in India During 1971--1989 . . 279--288 Gilbert Shama and Klaus Hellgardt and Charles Oppenheim Citation Ootprint Analysis. Part I: UK and US Chemical Engineering Academics 289--305 Júlio Cesar Rodrigues Pereira and André Luiz Fischer and Maria Mercedes Loureiro Escuder Driving Factors of High Performance in Brazilian Management Sciences for the 1981--1995 Period . . . . . . . . . . . 307--319 B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Modelling the Growth of Literature in the Area of Theoretical Population Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--355 Wolfgang Glänzel Science in Scandinavia: A Bibliometric Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--357
K. C. Garg and P. Padhi Scientometrics of Prolific and Non--Prolific Authors in Laser Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--371 Tomas Cahlik Comparison of the Maps of Science . . . 373--387 Tomas Cahlik Search for Fundamental Articles in Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402 Laurie A. Ortiz-Rivera and Elías Sanz-Casado and Carlos A. Suárez-Balseiro Scientific Production in Puerto Rico in Science and Technology during the Period 1990 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--418 James S. Dietz and Ivan Chompalov and Barry Bozeman and Eliesh O'Neil Lane and Jongwon Park Using the Curriculum Vita to Study the Career Paths of Scientists and Engineers: An Exploratory Assessment . . 419--442 Helmut A. Abt The Reference--Frequency Relation in the Physical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 443--451 Katarina Prpi\'c The Publication Productivity of Young Scientists: An Empirical Study . . . . . 453--490 Ming-Yueh Tsay and Shiow-Jen Jou and Sheau-Shin Ma A Bibliometric Study of Semiconductor Literature, 1978--1997 . . . . . . . . . 491--509 Shyama V. Ramani and Marie-Angele de Looze A Note on Using Patent Statistics to Obtain Competition Indicators . . . . . 511--515 Alexandru T. Balaban and Milan Randi\'c Proposal for Using an Untapped Source of Citations Characterizing Scientific Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--521
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4 Eugene Garfield Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6 Judit Bar-Ilan Data collection methods on the Web for infometric purposes --- A review and analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--32 William A. Turner and R. Gherbi and C. Jacquemin and M. de Saint Leger Inometric methods and measures for sharing knowledge over internet . . . . 33--57 Anthony F. J. van Raan Bibliometrics and internet: Some observations and expectations . . . . . 59--63 Lennart Björneborn and Peter Ingwersen Perspective of webometrics . . . . . . . 65--82 Ed Noyons Bibliometric mapping of science in a policy context . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98 András Schubert \booktitleScientometrics: A Citation Based Bibliography 1997--2000 . . . . . 99--198
Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert Double effort = Double impact? A critical view at international co-authorship in chemistry . . . . . . . 199--214 Marta Riba Vilanova and Loet Leydesdorff Why Catalonia cannot be considered as a regional innovation system . . . . . . . 215--240 Jacqueline Leta and Raphael Jacques and Ivan Figueira and Leopoldo De Meis Central international visibility of Brazilian psychiatric publications from 1981 to 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--254 Heine Andersen The norm of universalism in sciences. Social origin and gender of researchers in Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272 Fang Yong and Ronald Rousseau Lattices in citation networks: An investigation into the structure of citation graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--287 Laurent Salzarulo and Markus Von Ins Bias, structure and quality in citation indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--299 Urs Schoepflin and Wolfgang Glänzel Two decades of ``\booktitleScientometrics''. An interdisciplinary field represented by its leading journal . . . . . . . . . . 301--312 L. P. Rai and Naresh Kumar and S. Madan Structural changes in S&T research in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--321 John C. Huber and Roland Wagner-Döbler Scientific production: A statistical analysis of authors in mathematical logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--337 Olle Persson All author citations versus first author citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--344 Quentin L. Burrell Some remarks on a paper by Egghe . . . . 345--350 Leo Egghe Comments on the ``Letter to the Editor'' by Burrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--351 Ronald N. Kostoff The metrics of science and technology 353--361 Leo Egghe A heuristic study of the first-citation distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Bo Jarneving The cognitive structure of current cardiovascular research . . . . . . . . 365--389 Tiiu Ojasoo and Hervé Maisonneuve and Jean-Christophe Doré Evaluating publication trends in clinical research: How reliable are medical databases? . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404 Neusa F. Dos Santos and Vivian M. Rumjanek Brazilian immunology: One hundred years later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--418 Roland Wagner-Döbler Rescher's Principle of Decreasing Marginal Returns of Scientific Research 419--436 John C. Huber and Roland Wagner-Döbler Scientific production: A statistical analysis of authors in physics, 1800--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--453 Hendrik P. Van Dalen and K\`ene Henkens What makes a scientific article influential? The case of demographers 455--482 Katherine W. McCain Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467 Laura Joy Moyer Bibliography of publications of Belver C. Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--479 Heting Chu Intellectual activities and influences of Belver C. Griffith: A citation perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--488 Johannes Stegmann and Guenter Grohmann Citation rates, knowledge export and international visibility of dermatology journals listed and not listed in the Journal Citation Reports . . . . . . . . 483--502 Henry Small Belver and Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--491 Tibor Braun and Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert Publication and cooperation patterns of the authors of neuroscience journals . . 499--510 Mee-Jean Kim A bibliometric analysis of physics publications in Korea, 1994--1998 . . . 503--521 Michael E. D. Koenig Lessons from the study of scholarly communication for the new information era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--523 Stefan Hornbostel Third party funding of German universities. An indicator of research activity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--537 Henry Kreuzman A co-citation analysis of representative authors in philosophy: Examining the relationship between epistemologists and philosophers of science . . . . . . . . 525--539 Quentin L. Burrell Two problems posed by Egghe . . . . . . 539--544 Péter Vinkler An attempt for defining some basic categories of scientometrics and classifying the indicators of evaluative scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--544 Valentina Markusova and Valdimir Minin and Alexandr Libkind and Michael Arapov Russian grant-holders opinion on competitive funding: Results of a survey 541--551 Leo Egghe Comments on the ``Letter to the Editor'' by Burrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--552 Jack Meadows Early reactions to information growth 553--561 L. John Old Utilizing spatial information systems for non-spatial-data analysis . . . . . 563--571 Pamela E. Sandstrom Scholarly communication as a socioecological system . . . . . . . . . 573--605 Howard D. White Author-centered bibliometrics through CAMEOs: Characterizations automatically made and edited online . . . . . . . . . 607--637
Henk F. Moed Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8 Luis A. N. Amaral and P. Gopikrishnan and Kaushik Matia and Vasiliki Plerou and H. E. Stanley Application of statistical physics methods and conceptsto the study of science & technology systems . . . . . . 9--36 Manfred Bonitz and Andrea Scharnhorst Competition in science and the Matthew core journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--54 Renald K. Buter and Ed C. M. Noyons Improving the functionality of interactive bibliometric science maps 55--68 Wolfgang Glänzel National characteristics in international scientific co-authorship relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--115 Wallace Koehler Information science as ``Little Science'':The implications of a bibliometric analysis of theJournal of the American Society for Information Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132 Terttu A. M. Kortelainen Studying the international diffusion of a national scientific journal . . . . . 133--146 Michael Mabe and Mayur Amin Growth dynamics of scholarly and scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 147--162 Martin S. Meyer Patent citation analysis in a novel field of technology:An exploration of nano-science and nano-technology . . . . 163--183 Jacques Michel and Bernd Bettels Patent citation analysis.A closer look at the basic input data from patent search reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--201 Fernanda Morillo and María Bordons and Isabel Gómez An approach to interdisciplinarity through bibliometric indicators . . . . 203--222 Nora Narvaez-Berthelemot and Jane M. Russell World distribution of social science journals:A view from the periphery . . . 223--239 Anthony J. Nederhof and Marc Luwel and Henk F. Moed Assessing the quality of scholarly journals in Linguistics:An alternative to citation-based journal impact factors 241--265 Xavier Polanco and Claire François and Jean-Charles Lamirel Using artificial neural networks for mapping of science and technology: A multi-self-organizing-maps approach . . 267--292 Ed J. Rinia and Thed. N. Van Leeuwen and Eppo E. W. Bruins and Hendrik G. Van Vuren and Anthony F. J. Van Raan Citation delay in interdisciplinary knowledge exchange . . . . . . . . . . . 293--309 Holger Schwechheimer and Matthias Winterhager Mapping interdisciplinary research fronts in neuroscience: A bibliometric view to retrograde amnesia . . . . . . . 311--318 Patrick Thomas A relationship between technology indicators and stock market performance 319--333 Thed N. Van Leeuwen and Henk F. Moed and Robert J. W. Tijssen and Martijn S. Visser and Anthony F. J. Van Raan Language biases in the coverage of the Science Citation Index and its consequencesfor international comparisons of national research performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--346 Anthony F. J. Van Raan Competition amongst scientists for publication status:Toward a model of scientific publication and citation distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--357
Hariolf Grupp and Ulrich Schmoch and Sybelle Hinze International alignment and scientific regard as macro-indicators for international comparisons of publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--380 Mladen M. Koljatic and Mónica R. Silva The international publication productivity of Latin American countries in the economics and business administration fields . . . . . . . . . 381--394 Mario de Marchi and Maurizio Rocchi The editorial policies of scientific journals: Testing an impact factor model 395--404 Matthias Sutter and Martin G. Kochner Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics . . . . . . . 405--414 K. C. Garg and P. Padhi A study of collaboration in laser science and technology . . . . . . . . . 415--427 Christian Genest and Carl Thibault Investigating the concentration within a research community using joint publications and co-authorship via intermediaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--440 Peter Van Den Besselaar The cognitive and the social structure of STS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--460
Anonymous Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--467 Laura Joy Moyer Bibliography of publications of Belver C. Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--479 Heting Chu Intellectual activities and influences of Belver C. Griffith: A citation perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--488 Henry Small Belver and Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--497 Tibor Braun and Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert Publication and cooperation patterns of the authors of neuroscience journals . . 499--510 Michael E. D. Koenig Lessons from the study of scholarly communication for the new information era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--523 Henry Kreuzman A co-citation analysis of representative authors in philosophy: Examining the relationship between epistemologists and philosophers of science . . . . . . . . 525--539 Valentina Markusova and Valdimir Minin and Alexandr Libkind and Michael Arapov Russian grant-holders opinion on competitive funding: Results of a survey 541--551 Jack Meadows Early reactions to information growth 553--561 L. John Old Utilizing spatial information systems for non-spatial-data analysis . . . . . 563--571 Pamela E. Sandstrom Scholarly communication as a socioecological system . . . . . . . . . 573--605 Howard D. White Author-centered bibliometrics through CAMEOs: Characterizations automatically made and edited online . . . . . . . . . 607--637 Anonymous Index to Volume 51 . . . . . . . . . . . 639--642
Quentin L. Burrel Stochastic modelling of the first-citation distribution . . . . . . 3--12 Subbiah Arunachalam and Jayashree Balaji Fish science research in China: How does it compare with fish research in India? 13--28 Grant Lewison The quantity and quality of female researchers: A bibliometric study of Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43 Donatella Ugolini and Marco Amedeo Cimmino and Cristina Casilli and Giuseppe Sandro Mela How the European Union writes about ophthalmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58 Werner Marx and Hermann Schier and Michael Wanitschek Citation analysis using online databases: Feasibilities and shortcomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--82 Marek Szydlowski and Adam Krawiec Scientific cycle model with delay . . . 83--95
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--105 Anonymous About the Nalimov Memorial Issue of the Journal \booktitleScientometrics . . . . 107--109 Lyubov G. Gurjeva and Paul Wouters Scientometrics in the Context of Probabilistic Philosophy . . . . . . . . 111--126 Yuri V. Granovsky Is It Possible to Measure Science? V. V. Nalimov's Research in Scientometrics . . 127--150 Elena V. Markova He Brought New Meanings and New Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--158 Arkady I. Cherny and Ruggero S. Gilyarevsky The Impact of V. V. Nalimov on Information Science . . . . . . . . . . 159--163 Eugene Garfield Reminiscences of Vassily V. Nalimov . . 165--166 Rustum Roy Vassily Nalimov --- Modern Russian High Priest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 Anonymous Citation Classics of V. V. Nalimov 1. \booktitleCurrent Contents, Number 21, May 21, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--174 Anonymous Citation Classics of V. V. Nalimov 2. \booktitleCurrent Contents, Number 24, June 11, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177 Vassily Nalimov Facing the Mystery: A Philosophical Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--184 Vassily V. Nalimov Philosophy of Number: How Metrical Hermeneutics is Possible . . . . . . . . 185--192 Barbara Stefaniak International Co-operation in Science and in Social Sciences as Reflected in Multinational Papers Indexed in SCI and SSCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--210 Marta Skalska-Zlat Nalimov and the Polish Way Towards Science of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 211--223 Anna Zbikowska-Migo\'n Karl Heinrich Frömmichen (1736--1783) and Adrian Balbi (1782--1848) --- The Pioneers of Biblio- and Scientometrics 225--233 Subbiah Arunachalam Mathematics Research in India Today: What Does the Literature Reveal? . . . . 235--259 Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau Symmetric and Asymmetric Theory of Relative Concentration and Applications 261--290 William W. Hood and Concepción S. Wilson The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics . . . . 291--314 Nikita A. Zorin and Alexander V. Nemtsov and Vladimir V. Kalinin Formalised Assessment of Publication Quality in Russian Psychiatry . . . . . 315--322 Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich Scientometric Perspectives of the Analysis of Chemical Terminology . . . . 323--336 Samuel I. Shapiro The Universe Grasper . . . . . . . . . . 337--344 Vassily V. Nalimov and Jeanna Drogalina-Nalimov and Konstantin Zuyev The Universe of Meanings . . . . . . . . 345--360
Hildrun Kretschmer Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364 Donald Deb. Beaver Reflections on Scientific Collaboration (and its study): Past, Present, and Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--377 Aparna Basu and Ritu Aggarwal International Collaboration in Science in India and its Impact on Institutional Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--394 Mari Davis and Concepción S. Wilson Elite Researchers in Ophthalmology: Aspects of Publishing Strategies, Collaboration and Multi-Disciplinarity 395--410 Jochen Gläser and Grit Laudel Integrating Scientometric Indicators into Sociological Studies: Methodical and Methodological Problems . . . . . . 411--434 Frank Havemann Collaboration Behaviour of Berlin Life Science Researchers in the Last Two Decades of the Twentieth Century as Reflected in the Science Citation Index 435--443 Hildrun Kretschmer and Liang Liming and Ramesh Kundra Chinese-Indian-German Collaboration Results that Provided the Impetus for the Foundation of COLLNET . . . . . . . 445--456 Lydia L. Lange Citation Counts of Multi-Authored Papers --- First-named Authors and Further Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--470 Liming Liang and Hildrun Kretschmer and Yongzheng Guo and Donald deB. Beaver Age Structures of Scientific Collaboration in Chinese Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--486 Peter Mutschke and Anabel Quan Haase Collaboration and Cognitive Structures in Social Science Research Fields. Towards Socio-Cognitive Analysis in Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . 487--502 Roland Wagner-Döbler Continuity and Discontinuity of Collaboration Behaviour since 1800 --- from a Bibliometric Point of View . . . 503--517 Ramesh Kundra and Dimiter Tomov Collaboration Patterns in Indian and Bulgarian Epidemiology of Neoplasms in Medline for 1966--1999 . . . . . . . . . 519--523 Vera Wenzel Complex Systems in Natural Science and Humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--529 Hildrun Kretschmer and Liang Liming and Ramesh Kundra Foundation of a Global Interdisciplinary Research Network (COLLNET) with Berlin as the Virtual Centre . . . . . . . . . 531--537 Anonymous Index to Volume 52 . . . . . . . . . . . 539--542
András Schubert The Web of Scientometrics . . . . . . . 3--20 Valentina Markusova and Concepción S. Wilson and Mari Davis From bioweapon to biodefense . . . . . . 21--38 Judith Licea De Arenas and Heriberta Castaños-Lomnitz and Judith Arenas Licea Significant Mexican research in the health sciences: A bibliometric analysis 39--48 Ronald N. Kostoff Citation analysis of research performer quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--71 Suresh Kumar and B. M. Gupta and C. R. Karisiddappa Scientific productivity of authors in theoretical population genetics . . . . 73--93 Mike Thelwall and Ray Binns and Gareth Harries and Teresa Page-Kennedy and Liz Price and David Wilkinson European Union associated university websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--111 Vijai Kumar and V. L. Kalyane and B. S. Kademani A. H. Zewail: Research collaborator par excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121 Masashi Shirabe and Hiroyuki Tomizawa Likelihood of overseas access to international co-authorships . . . . . . 123--129 Loet Leydesdorff Indicators of structural change in the dynamics of science: Entropy statistics of the SCI Journal Citation Reports . . 131--159 B. M. Gupta and Suresh Kumar and S. L. Sangam and C. R. Karisiddappa Modeling the growth of world social science literature . . . . . . . . . . . 161--164 V. K. J. Jeevan and B. M. Gupta A scientometric analysis of research output from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur . . . . . . . . . 165--168
Wolfgang Glänzel and Henk F. Moed Journal impact measures in bibliometric research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--193 Maria Bordons and M. T. Fernández and Isabel Gómez Advantages and limitations in the use of impact factor measures for the assessment of research performance . . . 195--206 Linda Butler Identifying ``highly-rated'' journals --- an Australian case study . . . . . . 207--227 Grant Lewison Researchers'' and users'' perceptions of the relative standing of biomedical papers in different journals . . . . . . 229--240 Ed J. Rinia and Thed N. van Leeuwen and Anthony F. J. van Raan Impact measures of interdisciplinary research in physics . . . . . . . . . . 241--248 Thed N. van Leeuwen and Henk F. Moed Development and application of journal impact measures in the Dutch science system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--266 Péter Vinkler Subfield problems in applying the Garfield (Impact) Factors in practice 267--279
Henk F. Moed Measuring China's research performance using the Science Citation Index . . . . 281--296 Ali Uzun Productivity ratings of institutions based on publication in \booktitleScientometrics, \booktitleInformetrics, and \booktitleBibliometrics, 1981--2000 . . 297--307 Quentin L. Burrell The $n$ th-citation distribution and obsolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--323 Jacqueline Leta and Hernan Chaimovich Recognition and international collaboration: the Brazilian case . . . 325--335 Hajime Eto Authorship and citation patterns in Management Science in comparison with operational research . . . . . . . . . . 337--349 Alan L. Porter and Alisa Kongthon and Jye-Chyi (JC) Lu Research profiling: Improving the literature review . . . . . . . . . . . 351--370 Leo Egghe and I. K. R. Ravichandra Rao Theory and experimentation on the most-recent-reference distribution . . . 371--387 Shengli Ren and Ronald Rousseau International visibility of Chinese scientific journals . . . . . . . . . . 389--405 César A. Macías-Chapula Bibliometric and webometric analysis of health system reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 407--427 Branka Golub Motivational factors in departure of young scientists from Croatian science 429--445 Rajko Igi\'c The influence of the civil war in Yugoslavia on publishing in peer-reviewed journals . . . . . . . . . 447--452
Éric Archambault Methods for using patents in cross-country comparisons . . . . . . . 15--30 Blaise Cronin and Debora Shaw Identity-creators and image-makers: Using citation analysis and thick description to put authors in their place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49 Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau A proposal to define a core of a scientific subject: A definition using concentration and fuzzy sets . . . . . . 51--62 Yuko Fujigaki Analysis on dynamics of research sub-domains in interdisciplinary fields: Analysis using personal distribution versus papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--74 Wolfgang Glänzel and Cornelius de Lange A distributional approach to multinationality measures of international scientific collaboration 75--89 Nirmal Haritash and B. M. Gupta Mapping of S&T issues in the Indian Parliament: A scientometric analysis of questions raised in both Houses of the Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102 William W. Hood and Concepción S. Wilson Analysis of the fuzzy set literature using phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118 Guohua Jiang and Shi Shan and Lan Jiang and Xuesong Xu A new rank-size distribution of Zipf's Law and its applications . . . . . . . . 119--130 Peter Ingwersen Visibility and impact of research in Psychiatry for North European countries in EU, US and world contexts . . . . . . 131--144 Bihui Jin and Jiangong Zhang and Dingquan Chen and Xianyou Zhu Development of the Chinese Scientometric Indicators (CSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154
Birger Larsen Exploiting citation overlaps for Information Retrieval: Generating a boomerang effect from the network of scientific papers . . . . . . . . . . . 155--178 Grant Lewison From biomedical research to health improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192 Martin Meyer Tracing knowledge flows in innovation systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--212 P. S. Nagpaul Visualizing cooperation networks of elite institutions in India . . . . . . 213--228 Nora Narváez-Berthelemot and Jane M. Russell and Rigas Arvanitis and Roland Waast and Jacques Gaillard Science in Africa: An overview of mainstream scientific output . . . . . . 229--241 Michael Nelson and J. Stephen Downie Informetric analysis of a music database 243--255 Thomas E. Nisonger The relationship between international editorial board composition and citation measures in political science, business, and genetics journals . . . . . . . . . 257--268 Bluma C. Peritz and Judit Bar-Ilan The sources used by bibliometrics-scientometrics as reflected in references . . . . . . . . 269--284 P. Pichappan and S. Sarasvady The other side of the coin: The intricacies of author self-citations . . 285--290 Camille Prime and Elise Bassecoulard and Michel Zitt Co-citations and co-sitations: A cautionary view on an analogy . . . . . 291--308 Cesar A. Macías-Chapula and Acacia Mijangos-Nolasco Bibliometric analysis of AIDS literature in Central Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
Shyama V. Ramani and Marie-Angele de Looze Using patent statistics as knowledge base indicators in the biotechnology sectors: An application to France, Germany and the U.K. . . . . . . . . . . 319--346 Ed J. Rinia and Thed N. van Leeuwen and Eppo E. W. Bruins and Hendrik G. van Vuren and Anthony F. J. van Raan Measuring knowledge transfer between fields of science . . . . . . . . . . . 347--362 Alastair Smith and Mike Thelwall Web Impact Factors for Australasian universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--380 Robert J. W. Tijssen and Martijn S. Visser and Thed N. van Leeuwen Benchmarking international scientific excellence: Are highly cited research papers an appropriate frame of reference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--397 Arnold Verbeek and Koenraad Debackere and Marc Luwel and Petra Andries and Edwin Zimmermann and Filip Deleus Linking science to technology: Using bibliographic references in patents to build linkage schemes . . . . . . . . . 399--420 Péter Vinkler Dynamic changes in the chance for citedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--434 Moshe Yitzhaki Relation of the title length of a journal article to the length of the article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--447 Dangzhi Zhao and Elisabeth Logan Citation analysis using scientific publications on the Web as data source: A case study in the XML research area 449--472 Liming Liang and Yongzheng Guo and Mari Davis Collaborative patterns and age structures in Chinese publications . . . 473--489
Georg Franck The scientific economy of attention: A novel approach to the collective rationality of science . . . . . . . . . 3--26 Katarina Prpi\'c Gender and productivity differentials in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--58 Alexandru T. Balaban and Douglas J. Klein Co-authorship, rational Erd\Hos numbers, and resistance distances in graphs . . . 59--70 K. C. Garg Scientometrics of laser research in India and China . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85 Antonio Fernández-Cano and Ángel Bueno Multivariate evaluation of Spanish educational research journals . . . . . 87--102 Sami Gülgöz and Ömer A. Yedekçioglu and Ersin Yurtsever Turkey's output in social science publications: 1970--1999 . . . . . . . . 103--121 YaSar Tonta and Mustafa Ilhan Contribution of Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine to the world's biomedical literature (1988--1997) . . . 123--136 Jesús Rey-Rocha and María José Martín-Sempere and Belén Garzón Research productivity of scientists in consolidated vs. non-consolidated teams: The case of Spanish university geologists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156
Hashem Farahat Authorship patterns in agricultural sciences in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170 Dora Marinova and Michael McAleer Trends and volatility in Japanese patenting in the USA: An analysis of the electronics and transport industries . . 171--187 Robert Dalpé Bibliometric analysis of biotechnology 189--213 K. C. Garg and P. Padhi Scientometrics of laser research in India during 1970--1994 . . . . . . . . 215--241 Kamlesh Goel Gender differences in publication productivity in psychology in India . . 243--258 Leonard J. Ponzi The intellectual structure and interdisciplinary breadth of Knowledge Management: A bibliometric study of its early stage of development . . . . . . . 259--272 Quentin L. Burrell Modelling citation age data: Simple graphical methods from reliability theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285 Liming Liang and Ling Zhu Major factors affecting China's inter-regional research collaboration: Regional scientific productivity and geographical proximity . . . . . . . . . 287--316 Ronald Rousseau Lack of standardisation in informetric research. Comments on ``Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics'' by Matthias Sutter and Martin G. Kocher . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--327 Martin G. Kocher and Matthias Sutter Lack of standardization in informetric research: Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--331
Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert and Tibor Braun A relational charting approach to the world of basic research in twelve science fields at the end of the second millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--348 Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau Co-citation, bibliographic coupling and a characterization of lattice citation networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--361 Mike Thelwall and Alastair Smith Interlinking between Asia--Pacific University Web sites . . . . . . . . . . 363--376 María José Martín-Sempere and Jesús Rey-Rocha and Belén Garzón-García The effect of team consolidation on research collaboration and performance of scientists. Case study of Spanish university researchers in Geology . . . 377--394 W. Jack Duncan and Eric W. Ford and Matthew D. Rousculp and Peter M. Ginter Community of scholars: An exploratory study of management laureates . . . . . 395--409 Edgar Dutra Zanotto Scientific and technological development in Brazil. The widening gap . . . . . . 411--419 Mee-Jean Kim Citation patterns of Korean physicists and mechanical engineers: Differences by type of publication source and type of authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--436 Erdal Inönü and L. Kurnaz Observations on the growth characteristics of the research output of Turkish physicists based on a selective citation analysis . . . . . . 437--444 N. Sombatsompop and P. Ratchatahirun and V. Surathanasakul and N. Premkamolnetr and T. Markpin A citation report for Thai academic journals published during 1996--2000 . . 445--462
Tibor Braun and Zsuzsa Szabadi-Peresztegi and Éva Kovács-Németh No-bells for ambiguous lists of ranked Nobelists as science indicators of national merit in physics, chemistry and medicine, 1901--2001 . . . . . . . . . . 3--28 Philip Hans Franses The diffusion of scientific publications: The case of Econometrica, 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42 Cornelia Enachescu and Tiberiu Postelnicu Patterns in journal citation data revealed by exploratory multivariate analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59 Gregory G. Brunk Swarming of innovations, fractal patterns, and the historical time series of US patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--80 Dutt Bharvi and K. C. Garg and Anita Bali Scientometrics of the international journal \booktitleScientometrics . . . . 81--93 Chu Keong Lee A scientometric study of the research performance of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore 95--110 Johannes Stegmann and Guenter Grohmann Hypothesis generation guided by co-word clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--135 Erdal Inönü The influence of cultural factors on scientific production . . . . . . . . . 137--146 Filip Deleus and Marc M. Van Hulle Monitoring elasticity between science and technology domains and its visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--160
Tibor Braun and Zsuzsa Szabadi-Peresztegi and Éva Kovács-Németh About Abels and similar international awards for ranked lists of awardees as science indicators of national merit in mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--168 K. C. Garg An overview of cross-national, national, and institutional assessment as reflected in the international journal \booktitleScientometrics . . . . . . . . 169--199 Ming-Yueh Tsay and Shiao-Shing Ma The nature and relationship between the productivity of journals and their citations in semiconductor literature 201--222 John D. Lee and Kim J. Vicente and Andrea Cassano and Anna Shearer Can scientific impact be judged prospectively? A bibliometric test of Simonton's model of creative productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232 Dag W. Aksnes A macro study of self-citation . . . . . 235--246 Mark Kot and Emily Silverman and Celeste A. Berg Zipf's Law and the diversity of biology newsgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257 Michel Zitt and Suzy Ramanana-Rahary and Elise Bassecoulard Correcting glasses help fair comparisons in international science landscape: Country indicators as a function of ISI database delineation . . . . . . . . . . 259--282 Joost P. H. Drenth More reprint requests, more citations? 283--286
Christian Schloegl and Juan Gorraiz and Christoph Bart and Monika Bargmann Evaluating two Austrian university departments: Lessons learned . . . . . . 289--299 Takayuki Hayashi Bibliometric analysis on additionality of Japanese R&D programmes . . . . . . . 301--316 Ivan Figueira and Raphael Jacques and Jacqueline Leta A comparison between domestic and international publications in Brazilian psychiatry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--327 Farid Dahdouh-Guebas and J. Ahimbisibwe and Rita Van Moll and Nico Koedam Neo-colonial science by the most industrialised upon the least developed countries in peer-reviewed publishing 329--343 Donatella Ugolini and Cristina Casilli The visibility of Italian journals . . . 345--355 Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert A new classification scheme of science fields and subfields designed for scientometric evaluation purposes . . . 357--367 Charlene L. Al-Qallaf Citation patterns in the Kuwaiti journal \booktitleMedical Principles and Practice: The first 12 years, 1989--2000 369--382 P. S. Nagpaul and Santanu Roy Constructing a multi-objective measure of research performance . . . . . . . . 383--402 P. S. Nagpaul Exploring a pseudo-regression model of transnational cooperation in science . . 403--416 Mike Thelwall and Rong Tang and Liz Price Linguistic patterns of academic Web use in Western Europe . . . . . . . . . . . 417--432
Anonymous Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6 Ming-yueh Tsay and Hong Xu and Chia-wen Wu Journal co-citation analysis of semiconductor literature . . . . . . . . 7--25 Markus Gmür Co-citation analysis and the search for invisible colleges: A methodological evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--57 B. M. Gupta and S. M. Dhawan India's collaboration with People's Republic of China in Science and Technology: A scientometric analysis of coauthored papers during 1994--1999 . . 59--74 Quentin L. Burrell Defining a core: Theoretical observations on the Egghe--Rousseau proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92 Michel Zitt and Suzy Ramanana-Rahary and Elise Bassecoulard Bridging citation and reference distributions: Part I --- The referencing-structure function and its application to co-citation and co-item studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--118 Li Li and Fenglian Zhang Developing English-language academic journals of China . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125 Tianwei He Difficulties and challenges of Chinese scientific journals: Statistical analysis of Chinese literatures using Chinese Science Bulletin as example . . 127--139 Anonymous Correspondence: Letter to the Editor . . 141--144 Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--146 Mari Davis ISSI Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--149
Manfred Bonitz Obituary: Robert King Merton (1910--2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152 Sybille Hinze Introduction to the selected papers of the 7th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators . . . 155--157 María Bordons and Fernanda Morillo and M. Teresa Fernández and Isabel Gómez One step further in the production of bibliometric indicators at the micro level: Differences by gender and professional category of scientists . . 159--173 Icíar Dominguez Lacasa and Hariolf Grupp and Ulrich Schmoch Tracing technological change over long periods in Germany in chemicals using patent statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 175--195 Wolfgang Glänzel and Rickard Danell and Olle Persson The decline of Swedish neuroscience: Decomposing a bibliometric national science indicator . . . . . . . . . . . 197--213 Grit Laudel Studying the brain drain: Can bibliometric methods help? . . . . . . . 215--237 Xuemei Li and Mike Thelwall and Peter Musgrove and David Wilkinson The relationship between the WIFs or inlinks of Computer Science Departments in UK and their RAE ratings or research productivities in 2001 . . . . . . . . . 239--255 Thed N. Van Leeuwen and Martijn S. Visser and Henk F. Moed and Ton J. Nederhof and Anthony F. J. Van Raan The Holy Grail of science policy: Exploring and combining bibliometric tools in search of scientific excellence 257--280 Elmer Yglesias Porter vs. Porter: Modeling the technological competitiveness of nations 281--293 Michel Zitt and Suzy Ramanana-Rahary and Elise Bassecoulard and Françoise Laville Potential science-technology spillovers in regions: An insight on geographic co-location of knowledge activities in the EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--320
Shaun Goldfinch and Tony Dale and Karl DeRouen, Jr. Science from the periphery: Collaboration, networks and `Periphery Effects' in the citation of New Zealand Crown Research Institutes articles, 1995--2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--337 Jacqueline Leta and Grant Lewison The contribution of women in Brazilian science: A case study in astronomy, immunology and oceanography . . . . . . 339--353 Bart Van Looy and Edwin Zimmermann and Reinhilde Veugelers and Arnold Verbeek and Johanna Mello and Koenraad Debackere Do science-technology interactions pay off when developing technology? . . . . 355--367 Y. S. Ho and C. H. Chiu and T. M. Tseng and W. T. Chiu Assessing stem cell research productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--376 Jouko Miettunen and Pentti Nieminen The effect of statistical methods and study reporting characteristics on the number of citations: A study of four general psychiatric journals . . . . . . 377--388 James Hartley and James W. Pennebaker and Claire Fox Abstracts, introductions and discussions: How far do they differ in style? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--398 Wei Xu and Yi-Zhang Chen and Zhi-Chao Shen Neuroscience output of China: A MEDLINE-based bibliometric study . . . . 399--409
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Hajime Eto Interdisciplinary information input and output of a nano-technology project . . 5--33 Svein Kyvik Changing trends in publishing behaviour among university faculty, 1980--2000 . . 35--48 Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cinzia Daraio Age effects in scientific productivity 49--90 Caroline S. Wagner and Loet Leydesdorff Seismology as a dynamic, distributed area of scientific research . . . . . . 91--114 Jae-Yong Choung and Hong-Ghi Min and Myeong-Cheol Park Patterns of knowledge production: The case of information and telecommunication sector in Korea . . . 115--128 Choong-Han Song Interdisciplinarity and knowledge inflow/outflow structure among science and engineering research in Korea . . . 129--141 Bernard Wallner and Martin Fieder and Karoline Iber Age profile, personnel costs and scientific productivity at the University of Vienna . . . . . . . . . . 143--153 Mike Thelwall and Rong Tang Disciplinary and linguistic considerations for academic Web linking: An exploratory hyperlink mediated study with Mainland China and Taiwan . . . . . 155--181 Tibor Braun and András Schubert A quantitative view on the coming of age of interdisciplinarity in the sciences 1980--1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
Loet Leydesdorff and Martin Meyer The Triple Helix of university--industry--government relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--203 Rickard Danell and Olle Persson Regional R&D activities and interactions in the Swedish Triple Helix . . . . . . 203--218 Devrim Goktepe The Triple Helix as a model to analyze Israeli Magnet Program and lessons for late-developing countries like Turkey 219--239 Arnold Verbeek and Koenraad Debackere and Marc Luwel Science cited in patents: A geographic ``flow'' analysis of bibliographic citation patterns in patents . . . . . . 241--263 Sujit Bhattacharya and Martin Meyer Large firms and the science-technology interface Patents, patent citations, and scientific output of multinational corporations in thin films . . . . . . . 265--279 Denis O. Gray and Harm-Jan Steenhuis Quantifying the benefits of participating in an industry university research center: An examination of research cost avoidance . . . . . . . . 281--300 Liana Marina Ranga and Koenraad Debackere and Nick von Tunzelmann Entrepreneurial universities and the dynamics of academic knowledge production: A case study of basic vs. applied research in Belgium . . . . . . 301--320 Martin Meyer and Tatiana Siniläinen and Jan Timm Utecht Towards hybrid Triple Helix indicators: A study of university-related patents and a survey of academic inventors . . . 321--350 Susan E. Cozzens and Kamau Bobb Measuring the relationship between high technology development strategies and wage inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--368 Sujit Bhattacharya and Hildrun Kretschmer and Martin Meyer Characterizing intellectual spaces between science and technology . . . . . 369--390 Gaston Heimeriks and Marianne Hörlesberger and Peter Van Den Besselaar Mapping communication and collaboration in heterogeneous research networks . . . 391--413 Wolfgang Glänzel and Martin Meyer Patents cited in the scientific literature: An exploratory study of `reverse' citation relations . . . . . . 415--428 José Luis Ortega Priego A Vector Space Model as a methodological approach to the Triple Helix dimensionality: A comparative study of Biology and Biomedicine Centres of two European National Research Councils from a Webometric view . . . . . . . . . . . 429--443 Loet Leydesdorff The mutual information of university-industry-government relations: An indicator of the Triple Helix dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--467 Anonymous Newsletter from the ISSI President, August 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--471
Murat Bengisu Critical and emerging technologies in Materials, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering: A study for priority setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--487 Mu-Hsuan Huang and Li-Yun Chiang and Dar-Zen Chen Constructing a patent citation map using bibliographic coupling: A study of Taiwan's high-tech companies . . . . . . 489--506 Angela Hullmann and Martin Meyer Publications and patents in nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--527 Ming-yueh Tsay and Hong Xu and Chia-wen Wu Author co-citation analysis of semiconductor literature . . . . . . . . 529--545 Beatriz Presmanes and Ernesto Zumelzu Scientific cooperation between Chile and Spain: Joint mainstream publications (1991--2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--558 Yaru Dang and Wenling Zhang Internationalization of mathematical research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--570 Wolfgang Glänzel and Balázs Schlemmer and Bart Thijs Better late than never? On the chance to become highly cited only beyond the standard bibliometric time horizon . . . 571--586 William W. Hood and Concepción S. Wilson Informetric studies using databases: Opportunities and challenges . . . . . . 587--608 Emil Hudomalj and Gaj Vidmar OLAP and bibliographic databases . . . . 609--622 Cristina Faba-Pérez and Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Félix De Moya-Anegón Data mining in a closed Web environment 623--640 Marilia Coutinho and Elizabeth Balbachevsky and Denilde Oliveira Holzhacker and Diogo Da Costa Patrao and Ricardo Nicoliello Zorzetto Vencio and Rodrigo Luiz Medeiros Da Silva and Márcio Luís Gomes Lucatelli and Lucimara Flávio Dos Reis and Maria Angélica Marin Intellectual property and public research in biotechnology: the scientists opinion . . . . . . . . . . . 641--656 Peter B. Musgrove and Ray Binns and Teresa Page-Kennedy and Mike Thelwall A method for identifying clusters in sets of interlinking Web spaces . . . . 657--672 Guang Yu and Yihong Rong and Yijun Li Mathematical model of delay in the secondary literature publishing process 673--685 Péter Vinkler Relations of relative scientometric indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--694 Yinian Gu Comments on the paper ``Developing English-language academic journals of China'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--696 Li Li and Zhang Fenglian Understanding academic journals of China. Response to Yinian Gu . . . . . . 697--700
Albert Armando and Luis M. Plaza The transfer of knowledge from the Spanish public R&D system to the productive sectors in the field of Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14 Prabir G. Dastidar Ocean Science & Technology research across the countries: A global scenario 15--27 Bar-Ilan Judit Self-linking and self-linked rates of academic institutions on the Web . . . . 29--41 Ajiferuke Isola and Wolfram Dietmar Modelling the characteristics of Web page outlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62 Glänzel Wolfgang and Thijs Bart and Schlemmer Balázs A bibliometric approach to the role of author self-citations in scientific communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--77 Kim Kapseon The motivation for citing specific references by social scientists in Korea: The phenomenon of co-existing references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93 Rey-Rocha Jesús and Martín-Sempere María José Patterns of the foreign contributions in some domestic vs. international journals on Earth Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115 Robert Claude and Arreto Charles-Daniel and Azerad Jean and Gaudy Jean-François Bibliometric overview of the utilization of artificial neural networks in medicine and biology . . . . . . . . . . 117--130 Guan Jiancheng and Wang Junxia Evaluation and interpretation of knowledge production efficiency . . . . 131--155 Michael E. D. Koenig and Elizabeth M. Mezick Impact of mergers & acquisitions on research productivity within the pharmaceutical industry . . . . . . . . 157--169 Ho Yuh-Shan Citation review of Lagergren kinetic rate equation on adsorption reactions 171--177
Felix Chan and Dora Marinova and Michael McAleer Modelling the asymmetric volatility of anti-pollution patents in the USA . . . 179--197 Chaomei Chen and Diana Hicks Tracing knowledge diffusion . . . . . . 199--211 Dag W. Aksnes and Gunnar Sivertsen The effect of highly cited papers on national citation indicators . . . . . . 213--224 Leo Egghe Solution of a problem of Buckland on the influence of obsolescence on scattering 225--232 Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau How to measure own-group preference? A novel approach to a sociometric problem 233--252 Koenraad Debackere and Wolfgang Glänzel Using a bibliometric approach to support research policy making: The case of the Flemish BOF-key . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--276 Anonymous Letter to the Editor: Comments on a Paper of Garg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278 Anonymous Letter to the Editor: Reply to Rousseau 279--279
Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric macro indicators . . . . 281--310 Grant Lewison James Bond and citations to his books 311--320 Rafael Aleixandre and Juan Carlos Valderrama and José María Desantes and Antonio J. Torregrosa Identification of information sources and citation patterns in the field of reciprocating internal combustion engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--336 Masashi Shirabe and Hiroyuki Tomizawa Likelihood of inbound/outbound access to co-authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--344 Concepción S. Wilson and Valentina A. Markusova Changes in the scientific output of Russia from 1980 to 2000, as reflected in the Science Citation Index, in relation to national politico-economic changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--389 Judit Bar-Ilan A microscopic link analysis of academic institutions within a country --- the case of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--403 Peter Ingwersen and Daisy Jacobs South African research in selected scientific areas: Status 1981--2000 . . 405--423 Joachim Schummer Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and patterns of research collaboration in nanoscience and nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . 425--465 Anthony F. J. van Raan Sleeping Beauties in science . . . . . . 467--472
Anonymous Editorial Announcement . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Tibor Braun Editorial Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Katherine W. McCain and William E. Snizek Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18 Manfred Bonitz Self-emancipation proclamation and a light-hearted but nevertheless deeply-felt exception . . . . . . . . . 19--24 Cecelia Brown The Matthew Effect of the \booktitleAnnual Reviews series and the flow of scientific communication through the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30 Jonathan R. Cole Robert K. Merton, 1910--2003 . . . . . . 37--40 Blaise Cronin Normative shaping of scientific practice: The magic of Merton . . . . . 41--46 Mary Frank Fox R. K. Merton --- Life time of influence 47--50 Eugene Garfield The intended consequences of Robert K. Merton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61 Lowell L. Hargens What is Mertonian sociology of science? 63--70 Henry Small On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation 71--79 Paula E. Stephan Robert K. Merton's perspective on priority and the provision of the public good knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87 Stephen M. Stigler Robert K. Merton: Memorial . . . . . . . 89--92 Howard D. White Reward, persuasion, and the Sokal Hoax: A study in citation identities . . . . . 93--120
Guang Yu and Daren Yu and Yijun Li The universal expression of periodical average publication delay at steady state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--129 Francisco Collazo-Reyes and Ma. Elena Luna-Morales and Jane M. Russell Publication and citation patterns of the Mexican contribution to a ``Big Science'' discipline: Elementary particle physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--143 Grant Lewison and Guillermo Paraje The classification of biomedical journals by research level . . . . . . . 145--157 Loet Leydesdorff Top-down decomposition of the Journal Citation Report of the Social Science Citation Index: Graph- and factor-analytical approaches . . . . . . 159--180 Frank J. Trueba and Héctor Guerrero A robust formula to credit authors for their publications . . . . . . . . . . . 181--204 Wang-Huu Hsieh and Wen-Ta Chiu and Yee-Shuan Lee and Yuh-Shan Ho Bibliometric analysis of Patent \em Ductus Arteriosus treatments . . . . . . 205--215 Narongrit Sombatsompop and T. Markpin and N. Premkamolnetr A modified method for calculating the Impact Factors of journals in ISI Journal Citation Reports: Polymer Science Category in 1997--2001 . . . . . 217--235 Xing Zhu and Qi Wu and Yingzi Zheng and Xin Ma Highly cited research papers and the evaluation of a research university: A case study: Peking University 1974--2003 237--247 Todd Dewett and Angelo S. Denisi Exploring scholarly reputation: It's more than just productivity . . . . . . 249--272
Loet Leydesdorff Loet Leydesdorff wins the 2003 Derek John de Solla Price Medal . . . . . . . 273--274 Ronald Rousseau Loet Leydesdorff: Recipient of the 2003 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . 275--277 Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282 Frank Havemann and Michael Heinz and Roland Wagner-Döbler Growth dynamics of German university enrolments and of scientific disciplines in the 19th century: Scaling behaviour under weak competitive pressure . . . . 283--294 Henk F. Moed and Eugene Garfield In basic science the percentage of ``authoritative'' references decreases as bibliographies become shorter . . . . 295--303 Henry Small Why authors think their papers are highly cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--316 Weiping Yue and Concepción S. Wilson Measuring the citation impact of research journals in clinical neurology: A structural equation modelling analysis 317--332 Masamitsu Negishi and Yuan Sun and Kunihiro Shigi Citation Database for Japanese Papers: A new bibliometric tool for Japanese academic society . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--351 Robert D. Shelton and Geoffrey M. Holdridge The US--EU race for leadership of science and technology: Qualitative and quantitative indicators . . . . . . . . 353--363 Valentina A. Markusova and Vladimir A. Minin and Alexandr N. Libkind and C. N. Margriet Jansz and Michel Zitt and Elise Bassecoulard-Zitt Research in non-metropolitan universities as a new stage of science development in Russia . . . . . . . . . 365--383 Yishan Wu and Yuntao Pan and Yuhua Zhang and Zheng Ma and Jingan Pang and Hong Guo and Bo Xu and Zhiqing Yang China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations (CSTPC): History, impact and outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 Donald deB. Beaver Does collaborative research have greater epistemic authority? . . . . . . . . . . 399--408 Hildrun Kretschmer Author productivity and geodesic distance in bibliographic co-authorship networks, and visibility on the Web . . 409--420 Olle Persson and Wolfgang Glänzel and Rickard Danell Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies . . . . . . . . . . . 421--432 Fuyuki Yoshikane and Kyo Kageura Comparative analysis of coauthorship networks of different domains: The growth and change of networks . . . . . 433--444 Jean-Charles Lamirel and Claire François and Shadi Al Shehabi and Martial Hoffmann New classification quality estimators for analysis of documentary information: Application to patent analysis and web mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--562 Junping Qiu and Jingquan Chen and Zhi Wang An analysis of backlink counts and Web Impact Factors for Chinese university websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--473 Rong Tang and Mike Thelwall Patterns of national and international Web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations 475--485 Liwen Vaughan and Guozhu Wu Links to commercial websites as a source of business information . . . . . . . . 487--496 Leo Egghe Positive reinforcement and $3$-dimensional informetrics . . . . . . 497--509 Wolfgang Glänzel Towards a model for diachronous and synchronous citation analyses . . . . . 511--522 Shi Shan and Guohua Jiang and Lan Jiang The multivariate Waring distribution and its application . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--535
Liming Liang and Junwan Liu and Ronald Rousseau Name order patterns of graduate candidates and supervisors in Chinese publications: A case study of three major Chinese universities . . . . . . . 3--18 Lutz Bornmann and Jürgen Enders Social origin and gender of doctoral degree holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--41 Moon-soo Kim and Yong-tae Park The evolving patterns of inter-industrial knowledge structure: Case of Korean manufacturing in the 1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 Rekha P. Upadhye and V. L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar and E. R. Prakasan Scientometric analysis of synchronous references in the Physics Nobel lectures, 1981--1985: A pilot study . . 55--68 Wen-Ta Chiu and Jing-Shan Huang and Yuh-Shan Ho Bibliometric analysis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related research in the beginning stage . . . . . . . . . . 69--77 Morteza Mehrdad and Akbar Heydari and Mohammad Nabi Sarbolouki and Shapour Etemad Basic science in the Islamic Republic of Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 P. H. Alfaraz and Amalia Mirta Calviño Bibliometric study on food science and technology: Scientific production in Iberian--American countries (1991--2000) 89--102 Leo Egghe The source-item coverage of the Lotka function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--115 K. Brad Wray An examination of the contributions of young scientists in new fields . . . . . 117--128 Félix Moya-Anegón and Benjamín Vargas-Quesada and Victor Herrero-Solana and Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez and Elena Corera-Álvarez and Francisco J. Munoz-Fernández A new technique for building maps of large scientific domains based on the cocitation of classes and categories . . 129--145
T. Braun Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Tanzila Ahmed and Ben Johnson and Charles Oppenheim and Catherine Peck Highly cited old papers and the reasons why they continue to be cited. Part II. The 1953 Watson and Crick article on the structure of DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156 L. P. Rai and Naresh Kumar S&T education in India: Prospects and challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169 Yinian Gu Global knowledge management research: A bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . 171--190 Romualdas Karazija and Alina Momkauskaite The Nobel Prize in Physics --- regularities and tendencies . . . . . . 191--205 Andréa Velloso and Denise Lannes and Leopoldo de Meis Concentration of science in Brazilian governmental universities . . . . . . . 207--220 Zvjezdana Benceti\'c Klai\'c and Branimir Klai\'c Croatian scientific publications in top journals according to the Science Citation Index for the 1980--2000 Period 221--250 Lars Frode Frederiksen Disciplinary determinants of bibliometric impact in Danish industrial research: Collaboration and visibility 253--270 Isabel Belinchón and José Manuel Ramos and Evaristo Sánchez-Yus and Isabel Betlloch Dermatological scientific production from European Union authors (1987--2000) 271--281
Yinian Gu Information management or knowledge management? An informetric view of the dynamics of Academia . . . . . . . . . . 285--299 Antonio Fernández-Cano and Manuel Torralbo and Mónica Vallejo Reconsidering Price's model of scientific growth: An overview . . . . . 301--321 Rita Pinheiro-Machado and P. L. Oliveira A comparative study of patenting activity in U.S. and Brazilian scientific institutions . . . . . . . . 323--338 Jiancheng Guan and Nan Ma A comparative study of research performance in computer science . . . . 339--359 Sujit Bhattacharya Mapping inventive activity and technological change through patent analysis: A case study of India and China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--381 Mikkel Christoffersen Identifying core documents with a multiple evidence relevance filter . . . 385--394 Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs Does co-authorship inflate the share of self-citations? . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404 Hildrun Kretschmer and Isidro F. Aguillo Visibility of collaboration on the Web 405--426 Jean-Charles Lamirel and Shadi Al Shehabi and Claire François and Xavier Polanco Using a compound approach based on elaborated neural network for Webometrics: An example issued from the EICSTES project . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--441 Martin Meyer and Sujit Bhattacharya Commonalities and differences between scholarly and technical collaboration 443--456 Ali Uzun Assessing internationality of scholarly journals through foreign authorship patterns: the case of major journals in information science, and scientometrics 457--465 Liwen Vaughan Exploring website features for business information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--477
Caroline S. Wagner Six case studies of international collaboration in science . . . . . . . . 3--26 Katarina Prpi\'c Generational similarities and differences in researchers' professional ethics: An empirical comparison . . . . 27--51 Priscilla Carvalho and José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho and Luis Mauricio Bini The impact of Felsenstein's ``Phylogenies and the comparative method'' on evolutionary biology . . . . 53--66 Anita Engels and Tina Ruschenburg and Peter Weingart Recent internationalization of global environmental change research in Germany and the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85 Fabrizio Tuzi The scientific specialisation of the Italian regions . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--111 Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116 Peter Weingart Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? . . . 117--131 Anthony F. J. van Raan Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods 133--143 Roland Wagner-Döbler The system of research and development indicators: Entry points for information agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153 Nancy K. Bayers Using ISI data in the analysis of German national and institutional research output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--163 Simon Sommer Bibliometric analysis and private research funding . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--171 Jürgen Goebelbecker The role of publications in the new programme oriented funding of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres (HGF) . . . . 173--181
Yan Wang and Yishan Wu and Yuntao Pan and Zheng Ma and Ronald Rousseau Scientific collaboration in China as reflected in co-authorship . . . . . . . 183--198 Ronald N. Kostoff and Michael F. Shlesinger CAB: Citation-Assisted Background . . . 199--212 Anastassios Pouris An assessment of the impact and visibility of South African journals . . 213--222 Emmanuel Hassan The evolution of the knowledge structure of fuel cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--238 Mostafa Moin and Maryam Mahmoudi and Nima Rezaei Scientific output of Iran at the threshold of the 21st century . . . . . 239--248 Tianwei He and Jinglin Zhang and Lirong Teng Basic research in biochemistry and molecular biology in China: A bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . 249--259 B. S. Kademani and V. L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar and Lalit Mohan Nobel laureates: Their publication productivity, collaboration and authorship status . . . . . . . . . . . 261--268 Eliezer Geisler The measurement of scientific activity: Research directions in linking philosophy of science and metrics of science and technology outputs . . . . . 269--284 Anikó Somogyi and András Schubert Short communication: Correlation between national bibliometric and health indicators: The case of diabetes . . . . 285--292 Evdokia Xekalaki Letter to the Editor; Comments on the paper of Shan et al.: The multivariate Waring distribution . . . . . . . . . . 293--296
Tibor Braun and Ildikó Dióspatonyi World Flash on Basic Research . . . . . 297--319 Leo Egghe A characterization of the law of Lotka in terms of sampling . . . . . . . . . . 321--328 Jesús Basulto Santos and Francisco Javier Ortega Irizo Modelling citation age data with right censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--342 Manfred Bonitz Klaus Fuchs --- the enduring contribution to physics from his British period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--350 Jennifer Keiser and Jürg Utzinger Trends in the core literature on tropical medicine: a bibliometric analysis from 1952--2002 . . . . . . . . 351--365 M. V. Simkin and V. P. Roychowdhury Stochastic modeling of citation slips 367--384 Zao Liu Visualizing the intellectual structure in urban studies: A journal co-citation analysis (1992--2002) . . . . . . . . . 385--402 Avishag Gordon The peripheral terrorism literature: Bringing it closer to the core . . . . . 403--414
Wen-Ta Chiu and Yuh-Shan Ho Bibliometric analysis of homeopathy research during the period of 1991 to 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23 Guang Yu and Daren Yu and Yijun Li A simulation study of the periodicals' publication delay control process . . . 25--38 Marcus Ynalvez and Ricardo B. Duque and Paul Mbatia and R. Sooryamoorthy and Antony Palackal and Wesley Shrum When do scientists ``adopt'' the Internet? Dimensions of connectivity in developing areas . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--67 Tove Faber Frandsen Geographical concentration . . . . . . . 69--83 Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cinzia Daraio Exploring size and agglomeration effects on public research productivity . . . . 87--120 Philippe Jeannin and Joëlle Devillard Implementing relevant disciplinary evaluations in the social sciences . . . 121--144 Martin Meyer and Mariette Du Plessis and Tania Tukeva and Jann-Timour Utecht Inventive output of academic research: A comparison of two science systems . . . 145--161 Patrick Glenisson and Wolfgang Glänzel and Olle Persson Combining full-text analysis and bibliometric indicators. A pilot study 163--180 Yoshiko Okubo and Tibor Braun Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--188
Eric Ackermann Bibliometrics of a controversial scientific literature: Polywater research, 1962--1974 . . . . . . . . . . 189--208 R. Bailón-Moreno and E. Jurado-Alameda and R. Ruiz-Baños and J. P. Courtial Bibliometric laws: Empirical flaws of fit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--229 R. Bailón-Moreno and E. Jurado-Alameda and R. Ruiz-Baños and J. P. Courtial The unified scientometric model. Fractality and transfractality . . . . . 231--257 R. Bailón-Moreno and E. Jurado-Alameda and R. Ruiz-Baños and J. P. Courtial Analysis of the field of physical chemistry of surfactants with the Unified Scientometric Model. Fit of relational and activity indicators . . . 259--276 Leo Egghe An explanation of disproportionate growth using linear $3$-dimensional informetrics and its relation with the fractal dimension . . . . . . . . . . . 277--296 Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel Selection of research fellowship recipients by committee peer review. Reliability, fairness and predictive validity of Board of Trustees's decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--320 Mee-Jean Kim Korean science and international collaboration, 1995--2000 . . . . . . . 321--339 Grant Lewison and James Hartley What's in a title? Numbers of words and the presence of colons . . . . . . . . . 341--356 Thed N. van Leeuwen and Henk F. Moed Characteristics of journal impact factors: The effects of uncitedness and citation distribution on the understanding of journal impact factors 357--371 Michel Zitt and Suzy Ramanana-Rahary and Elise Bassecoulard Relativity of citation performance and excellence measures: From cross-field to cross-scale effects of field-normalisation . . . . . . . . . . 373--401 Mario De Marchi Nota bene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--405 Loet Leydesdorff and Virginia Trimnle and Péter Vinkler Walk-round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--419
Michael McAleer and Daniel Slottje A new measure of innovation: The patent success ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--429 Ronald Rousseau Median and percentile impact factors: A set of new indicators . . . . . . . . . 431--441 Judit Bar-Ilan and Ana Echermane The anthrax scare and the Web: A content analysis of Web pages linking to resources on anthrax . . . . . . . . . . 443--462 Nicole Altvater-Mackensen and Gregor Balicki and Lucie Bestakowa and Bianca Bocatius and Johannes Braun and Lars Brehmer and Verena Brune and Kirstina Eigemeier and Füsun Erdem and Ralf Fritscher and Anne Jacobs and Bernd Klingsporn and Marcin Kosinski and Julia Kuntze and Ju-Ra Lee and et al Science and technology in the region: The output of regional science and technology, its strengths and its leading institutions . . . . . . . . . . 463--529 Mohamed Yalpani and Akbar Heydari and Morteza Mehrdad Application of scientometric methods to chemical research in Iran: Reflections on Iran's current science policy . . . . 531--547 Anthony F. J. van Raan Reference-based publication networks with episodic memories . . . . . . . . . 549--566 Jonathan Adams Early citation counts correlate with accumulated impact . . . . . . . . . . . 567--581 Swapan Kumar Patra and Prakash Chand Biotechnology research profile of India 583--597 Jacqueline Leta and Júlio C. R. Pereira and Hernan Chaimovich The Life Sciences --- the relative contribution of the University of São Paulo to the highest impact factor journals and to those with the largest number of articles, 1980 to 1999 . . . . 599--616 Loet Leydesdorff and Ping Zhou Are the contributions of China and Korea upsetting the world system of science? 617--630 Tanzila Ahmed and Ben Johnson and Charles Oppenheim and Catherine Peck Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 631--631 Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs and Balázs Schlemmer Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--633
Juana Gómez Benito and María Dolores Hidalgo Montesinos and Georgina Guilera Ferré and Macarena Moreno Torrente A bibliometric study of differential item functioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16 Ming-yueh Tsay and Yi-ling Chen Journals of general & internal medicine and surgery: An analysis and comparison of citation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30 Dar-Zen Chen and Han-Wen Chang and Mu-Hsuan Huang and Feng-Cheng Fu Core technologies and key industries in Taiwan from 1978 to 2002: A perspective from patent analysis . . . . . . . . . . 31--53 Lima Mariana and Sofía Liberman and Jane M. Russell Scientific group cohesiveness at the National University of México . . . . . . 55--66 Hye-Seon Moon and Jeong-Dong Lee A fuzzy set theory approach to national composite S&T indices . . . . . . . . . . 67--83 Marianne Gauffriau and Peder Olesen Larsen Counting methods are decisive for rankings based on publication and citation studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93 Igor Podlubny Comparison of scientific impact expressed by the number of citations in different fields of science . . . . . . 95--99 Nian Cai Liu and Ying Cheng and Li Liu Academic ranking of world universities using scientometrics --- a comment to the ``Fatal Attraction'' . . . . . . . . 101--109 Anthony F. J. van Raan Reply to the comments of Liu et al. . . 111--112
Tibor Braun and Ildikó Dióspatonyi The journal gatekeepers of major publishing houses of core science journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--120 Suresh Kumar and K. C. Garg Scientometrics of computer science research in India and China . . . . . . 121--132 S. Lozano and J. L. Salmerón Data Envelopment Analysis of OR/MS journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--150 Xuemei Li and Mike Thelwall and David Wilkinson and Peter Musgrove National and international university departmental Web site interlinking . . . 151--185 Xuemei Li and Mike Thelwall and David Wilkinson and Peter Musgrove National and international university departmental Web site interlinking . . . 187--208 Hendrik P. van Dalen and K\`ene Henkens Signals in science --- On the importance of signaling in gaining attention in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--233 Guang Yu and Xiao-Hong Wang and Da-Ren Yu The influence of publication delays on impact factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
Quentin L. Burrell The use of the generalized Waring process in modelling informetric data 247--270 Clara Eugenia Garcia and Luis Sanz-Menéndez Competition for funding as an indicator of research competitiveness . . . . . . 271--300 Dora Marinova and Michael McAleer and Daniel Slottje Antitrust environment and innovation . . 301--311 Manuel Cardona and Werner Marx The disaster of the Nazi-power in science as reflected by some leading journals and scientists in physics. . . 313--324 Ana M. Muñoz-Muñoz The scholarly transition of female academics at the University of Granada (1975--1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--350 Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans and Katy Börner Mapping the backbone of science . . . . 351--374 Manfred Bonitz Ten years Matthew effect for countries 375--379
Han Woo Park and Heung Deug Hong and Loet Leydesdorff A comparison of the knowledge-based innovation systems in the economies of South Korea and the Netherlands using Triple Helix indicators . . . . . . . . 3--27 Rolf Sternberg and Timo Litzenberger The publication and citation output of German Faculties of Economics and Social Sciences --- a comparison of faculties and disciplines based upon SSCI data . . 29--53 Avishag Gordon Homeland security literature in relation to terrorism publications: The source and the response . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65 Maria Pinto and José Luis Alonso Berrocal and José Antonio Cordón García and Viviana Fernández Marcial and Carlos García Figuerola and Javier García Marco and Camarero Carmen Gómez and Rodríguez Ángel F. Zazo Quality assessment of Spanish universities' web sites focused on the European Research Area . . . . . . . . . 67--93 Jaime Requena Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile . . . . . . . 95--130 Katherine W. McCain and June M. Verner and Gregory W. Hislop and William Evanco and Vera Cole The use of bibliometric and knowledge elicitation techniques to map a knowledge domain: Software Engineering in the 1990s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144 V. P. Kharbanda Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--149
K. C. Garg and B. M. Gupta and Tabassum Jamal and Santanu Roy and Suresh Kumar Assessment of impact of AICTE funding on R&D and educational development . . . . . 151--160 Juan A. Araujo Ruiz and Guido van Hooydonk and Raul G. Torricella Morales and Ricardo Arencibia Jorge Cuban scientific articles in ISI Citation Indexes and CubaCiencias databases (1988--2003) . . . . . . . . . 161--171 Tomaz Bartol and Marjan Hocevar The capital cities of the ten new European Union countries in selected bibliographic databases . . . . . . . . 173--187 Julia Osca Lluch Some considerations on the use of the impact factor of scientific journals as a tool to evaluate research in psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--197 Prabir G. Dastidar and S. Ramachandran Engineering research in ocean sector: An international profile . . . . . . . . . 199--213 Jiancheng Guan and Ying He Comparison and evaluation of domestic and international outputs in Information Science & Technology research of China 215--244 Bo Jarneving A comparison of two bibliometric methods for mapping of the research front . . . 245--263
Editorial Peter Ingwersen and Howard D. White win the 2005 Derek John de Solla Price Medal 265--266 Ronald Rousseau Peter Ingwersen: Recipient of the 2005 Derek de Solla Price Award . . . . . . . 267--269 Catherine McCain Howard D. White: Recipient of the 2005 Derek de Solla Price Award of the journal \booktitleScientometrics . . . . 271--273 Leo Egghe The share of items of highly productive sources as a function of the size of the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--291 N. Sombatsompop and T. Markpin and W. Yochai and M. Saechiew An evaluation of research performance for different subject categories using Impact Factor Point Average (IFPA) index: Thailand case study . . . . . . . 293--305 Mario Coccia A scientometric model for the assessment of scientific research performance within public institutes . . . . . . . . 307--321 Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert Domesticity and internationality in co-authorship, references and citations 323--342 Nan Ma and Jiancheng Guan An exploratory study on collaboration profiles of Chinese publications in Molecular Biology . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355 Steve Hanney and Iain Frame and Jonathan Grant and Martin Buxton and Tracey Young and Grant Lewison Using categorisations of citations when assessing the outcomes from health research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--379 Quentin L. Burrell Are ``Sleeping Beauties'' to be expected? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--389 Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel Does the $h$-index for ranking of scientists really work? . . . . . . . . 391--392
Ed C. M. Noyons Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--9 Steven Wooding and Kate Wilcox-Jay and Grant Lewison and Jonathan Grant Co-author inclusion: A novel recursive algorithmic method for dealing with homonyms in bibliometric analysis . . . 11--21 Paola Criscuolo The `home advantage' effect and patent families. A comparison of OECD triadic patents, the USPTO and the EPO . . . . . 23--41 S. L. Sangam and Kiran Savanur and M. Manjunath and R. Vasudevan Scientometric portrait of Prof. Peter John Wyllie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53 Robert J. W. Tijssen and Thed N. Van Leeuwen Measuring impacts of academic science on industrial research: A citation-based approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69 Bart Thijs and Wolfgang Glänzel The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric meso-indicators. The case of European universities . . . . . 71--80 Anton J. Nederhof Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: A Review . . . . . . . . 81--100 Raquel Rojo and Isabel Gómez Analysis of the Spanish scientific and technological output in the ICT sector 101--121 Lidiya Kavunenko and Vladimir Khorevin and Katerina Luzan Comparative analysis of journals on social sciences and humanities in Ukraine and the world . . . . . . . . . 123--132 Thed van Leeuwen The application of bibliometric analyses in the evaluation of social science research. Who benefits from it, and why it is still feasible . . . . . . . . . . 133--154 Maurizio Martinelli and Irma Serrecchia and Michela Serrecchia Analysis of the Internet diffusion in the non-profit sector: the social digital divide in Italy . . . . . . . . 155--170 Xavier Polanco and Roche Ivana and Besagni Dominique User science indicators in the Web context and co-usage analysis . . . . . 171--182 Jonas Lundberg and Anette Fransson and Mats Brommels and John Skår and Inger Lundkvist Is it better or just the same? Article identification strategies impact bibliometric assessments . . . . . . . . 183--197 Elba Mauleón and María Bordons Productivity, impact and publication habits by gender in the area of Materials Science . . . . . . . . . . . 199--218 Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro and Alfredo Yegros-Yegros and Fragiskos Archontakis What do university patent routes indicate at regional level? . . . . . . 219--230
Ki-Wan Kim Measuring international research collaboration of peripheral countries: Taking the context into consideration 231--240 Ülle Must ``New''countries in Europe --- Research, development and innovation strategies vs bibliometric data . . . . . . . . . . . 241--248 Antonio García-Romero Assessing the socio-economic returns of biomedical research (I): How can we measure the relationship between research and health care? . . . . . . . 249--261 Marianne Hörlesberger and Edgar Schiebel Web networks of the science system: Weighted hubs and authorities . . . . . 263--278 Arnold Verbeek and Koenraad Debackere Patent evolution in relation to public/private R&D investment and corporate profitability: Evidence from the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 279--294 Bart Van Looy and Koenraad Debackere and Julie Callaert and Robert Tijssen and Thed van Leeuwen Scientific capabilities and technological performance of national innovation systems: An exploration of emerging industrial relevant research domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--310 Liming Liang and Frank Havemann and Michael Heinz and Roland Wagner-Döbler Structural similarities between science growth dynamics in China and in Western countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325 Linda Butler and Martijn S. Visser Extending citation analysis to non-source items . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--343 Iciar Dominguez-Lacasa Capturing the changes in the knowledge base underlying drug discovery and development in the 20$^{th}$ century and the adjustment of Bayer, Hoechst, Schering AG and E. Merck to the advent of modern biotechnology . . . . . . . . 345--364 Clara Calero and Renald Buter and Cecilia Cabello Valdés and Ed Noyons How to identify research groups using publication analysis: an example in the field of nanotechnology . . . . . . . . 365--376 R. K. Buter and E. C. M. Noyons and M. Van Mackelenbergh and T. Laine Combining concept maps and bibliometric maps: First explorations . . . . . . . . 377--387 Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cinzia Daraio and Léopold Simar Advanced indicators of productivity of universities. An application of robust nonparametric methods to Italian data 389--410 Ellen Bonnevie-Nebelong Journal citation identity, journal citation image and internationalisation: Methods for journal evaluation . . . . . 411--424 Martin Meyer Measuring science-technology interaction in the knowledge-driven economy: The case of a small economy . . . . . . . . 425--439
Tomás Cahlík and Marcel Jirina Law of cumulative advantages in the evolution of scientific fields . . . . . 441--449 Eric Ackermann Indicators of failed information epidemics in the scientific journal literature: A publication analysis of Polywater and Cold Nuclear Fusion . . . 451--466 A. Miguel-Dasit and L. Martí-Bonmatí and R. Aleixandre and P. Sanfeliu and J. C. Valderrama Publications resulting from Spanish radiology meeting abstracts: Which, Where and Who . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--480 Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Wook Han Issues in measuring the degree of technological specialisation with patent data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--492 Michele Cincera and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Veugelers Reinhilde Assessing the foreign control of production of technology: The case of a small open economy . . . . . . . . . . . 493--512 Ming-Hsien Lin and Liang-Kung Chen The impact of impact factor on small specialties: A case study of family medicine in Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . 513--520 Narongrit Sombatsompop and Apisit Kositchaiyong and Teerasak Markpin and Sekson Inrit Scientific evaluations of citation quality of international research articles in the SCI database: Thailand case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--535 Leo Egghe and I. K. Ravichandra Rao and Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo Proof of a conjecture of Moed and Garfield on authoritative references and extension to non-authoritative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--549 Ali Uzun Science and technology policy in Turkey. National strategies for innovation and change during the 1983--2003 period and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--559 Rafael Ball and Dirk Tunger Bibliometric analysis- A new business area for information professionals in libraries? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--577 Bernd Süssmuth and Martin Steininger and Stephane Ghio Towards a European economics of economics: Monitoring a decade of top research and providing some explanation 579--612 Bihui Jin and Ronald Rousseau Another ISI idiosyncrasy . . . . . . . . 613--614 B. S. Kademani and V. L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar and Lalit Mohan Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 615--617 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--626
Bihui Jin and Ronald Rousseau and Xiaoxing Sun Key Labs and Open Labs in the Chinese scientific research system: Their role in the national and international scientific arena . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14 Lowell L. Hargens and Jerald R. Herting Analyzing the association between referees' recommendations and editors' decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26 Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier and Marie-Thér\`ese Jourda and Rafaël Stofer Organizational vs. personal social capital in scientists' performance: A multi-level network study of elite French cancer researchers (1996--1998) 27--44 Gualberto Buela-Casal and Pandelis Perakakis and Michael Taylor and Purificación Checa Measuring internationality: Reflections and perspectives on academic journals 45--65 Wolfgang Glänzel and Jacqueline Leta and Bart Thijs Science in Brazil. Part 1: A macro-level comparative study . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86 Jacqueline Leta and Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs Science in Brazil. Part 2: Sectoral and institutional research profiles . . . . 87--105 János Izsák Some practical aspects of fitting and testing the Zipf--Mandelbrot model . . . 107--120 Sven Hemlin Creative knowledge environments for research groups in biotechnology. The influence of leadership and organizational support in universities and business companies . . . . . . . . . 121--142 Henri A. Schildt and Juha T. Mattsson A dense network sub-grouping algorithm for co-citation analysis and its implementation in the software tool Sitkis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--163 Ronald Rousseau Book Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Ronald Rousseau and Sandra Rousseau Remarks concerning the Liberman--Wolf bonding number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--173 Yaru Dang Fluctuation analysis of discipline development based on impact factor . . . 175--186 Adriano S. Melo and Luis Mauricio Bini and Priscilla Carvalho Brazilian articles in international journals on Limnology . . . . . . . . . 187--199 Guang Yu and Rui Guo and Da-Ren Yu The influence of the publication delay on journal rankings according to the impact factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211 Adela García-Aracil and Antonio Gutiérrez Gracia and Marián Pérez-Marín Analysis of the evaluation process of the research performance: An empirical case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--230 Loet Leydesdorff and Iina Hellsten Measuring the meaning of words in contexts: An automated analysis of controversies about `Monarch butterflies,' `Frankenfoods,' and `stem cells' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--258 Liwen Vaughan and Wolfgang Glänzel Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262 Wolfgang Glänzel and Koenraad Debackere and Bart Thijs and András Schubert A concise review on the role of author self-citations in information science, bibliometrics and science policy . . . . 263--277 Michael J. Nelson Visualization of citation patterns of some Canadian journals . . . . . . . . . 279--289 Liwen Vaughan and Yijun Gao and Margaret Kipp Why are hyperlinks to business Websites created? A content analysis . . . . . . 291--300 Dietmar Wolfram Applications of SQL for informetric frequency distribution processing . . . 301--313 Wolfgang Glänzel On the $h$-index --- A mathematical approach to a new measure of publication activity and citation impact . . . . . . 315--321 Quentin L. Burrell The use of Lotka functions and systematic sampling . . . . . . . . . . 323--325 Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--333
Carlos Suárez-Balseiro and Elias Sanz-Casado and Laurie Ortiz-Rivera Patterns of international scientific co-operation in Puerto Rico . . . . . . 335--350 James K. Wetterer Quotation error, citation copying, and ant extinctions in Madeira . . . . . . . 351--372 Mike Thelwall and Franz Barjak and Hildrun Kretschmer Web links and gender in science: An exploratory analysis . . . . . . . . . . 373--383 Claude Robert and Concepción S. Wilson and Jean-François Gaudy and Charles-Daniel Arreto A snapshot of EU publications in sleep research: A scientometric survey . . . . 385--405 Giulia Rivellini and Ester Rizzi and Susanna Zaccarin The science network in Italian population research: An analysis according to the social network perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--418 Mu-Hsuan Huang and Han-Wen Chang and Dar-Zen Chen Research evaluation of research-oriented universities in Taiwan from 1993 to 2003 419--435 Gamal Atallah and Gabriel Rodríguez Indirect patent citations . . . . . . . 437--465 Lalitha Kumari Trends in synthetic organic chemistry research. Cross-country comparison of Activity Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--476 Swapan Kumar Patra and Saroj Mishra Bibliometric study of bioinformatics literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--489 Anthony F. J. van Raan Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502 András Schubert and Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs The weight of author self-citations. A fractional approach to self-citation counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--514
Peter Mika and Tom Elfring and Peter Groenewegen Application of semantic technology for social network analysis in the sciences 3--27 V. K. Gupta References to literature in patent documents: A case study of CSIR in India 29--40 Brian P. Cozzarin Performance measures for the socio-economic impact of government spending on R&D . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--71 Paul F. Skilton A comparative study of communal practice: Assessing the effects of taken-for-granted-ness on citation practice in scientific communities . . . 73--96 Mohohlo Molatudi and Anastassios Pouris Assessing the knowledge base for biotechnology in South Africa . . . . . 97--108 Beno\^\it Godin On the origins of bibliometrics . . . . 109--133 Ying Cheng and Nian Cai Liu A first approach to the classification of the top 500 world universities by their disciplinary characteristics using scientometrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--150 K. C. Garg and Suresh Kumar and Kashmiri Lal Scientometric profile of Indian agricultural research as seen through Science Citation Index Expanded . . . . 151--166 Yun Liu and Guo-ping Cheng and Yu Yang Patent applications of the Top 500 foreign investment corporations in China 167--177 Pablo D. Batista and Mônica G. Campiteli and Osame Kinouchi Is it possible to compare researchers with different scientific interests? . . 179--189
Yoshiko Okubo and Wolfgang Glänzel and Yasuhiro Yamashita and Ronald Rousseau Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--202 Yuko Fujigaki Changes in the research stream by standardization: A content analysis of the Archives of General Psychiatry during the establishment of operational diagnostic criteria . . . . . . . . . . 203--212 Kiyoko Fujimaki and Rockbill Haklak Quantitative evaluation of positive or negative feelings for biotechnology- or health-related scenes in movies . . . . 213--226 Ryuzo Furukawa and Akira Goto Core scientists and innovation in Japanese electronics companies . . . . . 227--240 Takayuki Hayashi and Hiroyuki Tomizawa Restructuring the Japanese national research system and its effect on performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--264 Jun Suzuki and Kiminori Gemba and Schumpeter Tamada and Yoshihito Yasaki and Akira Goto Analysis of propensity to patent and science-dependence of large Japanese manufacturers of electrical machinery 265--288 Schumpeter Tamada and Yusuke Naito and Fumio Kodama and Kiminori Gemba and Jun Suzuki Significant difference of dependence upon scientific knowledge among different technologies . . . . . . . . . 289--302 Yasuhiro Yamashita and Yoshiko Okubo Patterns of scientific collaboration between Japan and France: Inter-sectoral analysis using Probabilistic Partnership Index (PPI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--324
Wolfgang Glänzel and Ronald Rousseau Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327 Éric Archambault and Étienne Vignola-Gagné and Grégoire Côté and Vincent Larivi\`ere and Yves Gingrasb Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases . . . . . . 329--342 Franz Barjak Research productivity in the Internet era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--360 Aparna Basu Using ISI's `Highly Cited Researchers' to obtain a country level indicator of citation excellence . . . . . . . . . . 361--375 Peter van den Besselaar and Gaston Heimeriks Mapping research topics using word-reference co-occurrences: A method and an exploratory case study . . . . . 377--393 Lennart Björneborn `Mini small worlds' of shortest link paths crossing domain boundaries in an academic Web space . . . . . . . . . . . 395--414 Katy Börner and Shashikant Penumarthy and Mark Meiss and Weimao Ke Mapping the diffusion of scholarly knowledge among major U.S. research institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--426 Lutz Bornmann and Hans-Dieter Daniel Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer review --- A citation analysis of publications previously published to approval or rejection of post-doctoral research fellowship applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--440 Quentin L. Burrell Measuring concentration within and co-concentration between informetric distributions: An empirical study . . . 441--456 Wolfgang Glänzel and Balázs Schlemmer and András Schubert and Bart Thijs Proceedings literature as additional data source for bibliometric analysis 457--473 Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack Quantitative evaluation of large maps of science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--499 Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--517 Vincent Larivi\`ere and Yves Gingras and Éric Archambault Canadian collaboration networks: A comparative analysis of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--533 Liming Liang and Ronald Rousseau and Fei Shi A rhythm indicator for science and the rhythm of \booktitleScience . . . . . . 535--544 Martin Meyer Knowledge integrators or weak links? An exploratory comparison of patenting researchers with their non-inventing peers in nano-science and technology . . 545--560 Olle Persson Exploring the analytical potential of comparing citing and cited source items 561--572 Jesper W. Schneider Concept symbols revisited: Naming clusters by parsing and filtering of noun phrases from citation contexts of concept symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--593 Henry Small Tracking and predicting growth areas in science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--610 Liwen Vaughan and Justin You Comparing business competition positions based on Web co-link data: The global market vs. the Chinese market . . . . . 611--628 Péter Vinkler Composite scientometric indicators for evaluating publications of research institutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--642 Fuyuki Yoshikane and Takayuki Nozawa and Keita Tsuji Comparative analysis of co-authorship networks considering authors' roles in collaboration: Differences between the theoretical and application areas . . . 643--655
Julie Callaert and Bart Van Looy and Arnold Verbeek and Koenraad Debackere and Bart Thijs Traces of Prior Art: An analysis of non-patent references found in patent documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--20 Josip Lukenda Influence of the 1991--1995 war on Croatian publications in the MEDLINE database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36 Juan Miguel Campanario and Lidia González and Cristina Rodríguez Structure of the impact factor of academic journals in the field of Education and Educational Psychology: Citations from editorial board members 37--56 Seung-Hoon Yoo and Hye-Seon Moon A semi-parametric modeling of firms' R&D expenditures with zero values . . . . . 57--67 Marshall H. Medoff The efficiency of self-citations in economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84 Wei Meng and Zhenhua Hu and Wenbin Liu Efficiency evaluation of basic research in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--101 Amalia Mirta Calviño Assessment of research performance in food science and technology: Publication behavior of five Iberian--American countries (1992--2003) . . . . . . . . . 103--116 Gad Saad Exploring the $h$-index at the author and journal levels using bibliometric data of productive consumer scholars and business-related journals respectively 117--120 Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau An informetric model for the Hirsch-index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--129 Leo Egghe Theory and practise of the $g$-index . . 131--152 Liming Liang $h$-index sequence and $h$-index matrix: Constructions and applications . . . . . 153--159 Michael G. Banks An extension of the Hirsch index: Indexing scientific topics and compounds 161--168 Tibor Braun and Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert A Hirsch-type index for journals . . . . 169--173 Edgar Dutra Zanotto The scientists pyramid . . . . . . . . . 175--181
Jesús Rey-Rocha and Belén Garzón-García and M. José Martín-Sempere Scientists' performance and consolidation of research teams in Biology and Biomedicine at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research . . . . 183--212 Maria Pinto A grounded theory on abstracts quality: Weighting variables and attributes . . . 213--226 Johan Bollen and Herbert van de Sompel Mapping the structure of science through usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--258 Williams Nwagwu A bibliometric analysis of productivity patterns of biomedical authors of Nigeria during 1967--2002 . . . . . . . 259--269 Peng Dong and Marie Loh and Adrian Mondry Publication lag in biomedical journals varies due to the periodical's publishing model . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--286 Oscar N. Ventura and Alvaro W. Mombrú Use of bibliometric information to assist research policy making. A comparison of publication and citation profiles of Full and Associate Professors at a School of Chemistry in Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--313 Ahmed F. Siddiqi Age likes some years . . . . . . . . . . 315--321 Carmen Galvez and Félix Moya-Anegón The unification of institutional addresses applying parametrized finite-state graphs (P-FSG) . . . . . . 323--345 B. S. Kademani and Vijai Kumar and Anil Sagar and Anil Kumar World literature on thorium research: A scientometric study based on Science Citation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--364 Juan Miguel Campanario and Lidia González Journal self-citations that contribute to the impact factor: Documents labeled ``editorial material'' in journals covered by the Science Citation Index 365--386 Nicola Baldini The Act on inventions at public research institutions: Danish universities' patenting activity . . . . . . . . . . . 387--407 András Schubert and Wolfgang Glänzel Cross-national preference in co-authorship, references and citations 409--428 Camille Roth and Paul Bourgine Lattice-based dynamic and overlapping taxonomies: The case of epistemic communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447 Can Huang and Celeste Amorim Varum and Joaquim Borges Gouveia Scientific productivity paradox: The case of China's S&T system . . . . . . . 449--473
Eugen Mattes and Michael C. Stacey and Dora Marinova Surveying inventors listed on patents to investigate determinants of innovation 475--498 Glenn D. Walters Predicting subsequent citations to articles published in twelve crime-psychology journals: Author impact versus journal impact . . . . . . . . . 499--510 Guang Yu and Rui Guo and Yi-Jun Li The influence of publication delays on three ISI indicators . . . . . . . . . . 511--527 Rogerio Meneghini and Rogerio Mugnaini and Abel L. Packer International versus national oriented Brazilian scientific journals. A scientometric analysis based on SciELO and JCR--ISI databases . . . . . . . . . 529--538 Tzeng-Ji Chen and Yu-Chun Chen and Shinn-Jang Hwang and Li-Fang Chou The rise of China in gastroenterology? A bibliometric analysis of ISI and Medline databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--549 Juneseuk Shin and Wook Lee and Yongtae Park On the benchmarking method of patent-based knowledge flow structure: Comparison of Korea and Taiwan with USA 551--574 Jonas Lundberg and Göran Tomson and Inger Lundkvist and John Skår and Mats Brommels Collaboration uncovered: Exploring the adequacy of measuring university-industry collaboration through co-authorship and funding . . . 575--589 Upali W. Jayasinghe and Herbert W. Marsh and Nigel Bond A new reader trial approach to peer review in funding research grants: An Australian experiment . . . . . . . . . 591--606 Anna Ceci and Mario De Marchi and Maurizio Rocchi A note on innovation in the chemical industy in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--614 Alexandru T. Balaban and Douglas J. Klein Is chemistry `The Central Science'? How are different sciences related? Co-citations, reductionism, emergence, and posets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--637 Isabel Peña-Rey and Napoleón Pérez-Farinós and Pedro Marset Campos Scientific production on tetrachloro-dibenzo-dioxins: A bibliometric study . . . . . . . . . . . 639--650 Gunther Maier Impact factors and peer judgment: The case of regional science journals . . . 651--667 Johan Bollen and Marko A. Rodriquez and Herbert Van de Sompel Journal status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--687 Claudia Contreras and Gonzalo Edwards and Alejandra Mizala The Current Impact Factor and the long-term impact of scientific journals by discipline: A logistic diffusion model estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--696
Carmen Galvez and Félix Moya-Anegón Standardizing formats of corporate source data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--26 Yong-Gil Lee and Jeong-Dong Lee and Yong-Il Song and Se-Jun Lee An in-depth empirical analysis of patent citation counts using zero-inflated count data model: The case of KIST . . . 27--39 Armando Albert and Begoña Granadino and Luis M. Plaza Scientific and technological performance evaluation of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in the field of Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51 Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent and Juan Carlos Valderrama Zurián and Alberto Miguel-Dasit and Adolfo Alonso Arroyo and Miguel Castellano Gómez Hypothetical influence of non-indexed Spanish medical journals on the impact factor of the Journal Citation Reports-indexed journals . . . . . . . . 53--66 Chin-tsai Lin and Chang-tzu Chiang Evaluating the performance of sponsored Chinese herbal medicine research . . . . 67--84 Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia and Fernando Jiménez-Sáez and Elena Castro-Martínez and Antonio Gutiérrez-Gracia What indicators do (or do not) tell us about Regional Innovation Systems . . . 85--106 Jiancheng Guan and Nan Ma A bibliometric study of China's semiconductor literature compared with other major Asian countries . . . . . . 107--124 Thomas Heinze and Philip Shapira and Jacqueline Senker and Stefan Kuhlmann Identifying creative research accomplishments: Methodology and results for nanotechnology and human genetics 125--152 Gerard Pasterkamp and Joris I. Rotmans and Dominique V. P. de Kleijn and Cornelius Borst Citation frequency: A biased measure of research impact significantly influenced by the geographical origin of research articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--165 Leo Egghe Probabilities for encountering genius, basic, ordinary or insignificant papers based on the cumulative $ n^{th} $ citation distribution . . . . . . . . . 167--181 Szu-chia Lo Patent analysis of genetic engineering research in Japan, Korea and Taiwan . . 183--200 András Schubert Successive $h$-indices . . . . . . . . . 201--205
Loet Leydesdorff and Martin Meyer The scientometrics of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations (Introduction to the topical issue) . . 207--222 Poh-Kam Wong and Yuen-Ping Ho Knowledge sources of innovation in a small open economy: The case of Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--249 Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro and Fragiskos Archontakis and Alfredo Yegros-Yegros In which regions do universities patent and publish more? . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266 Wolfgang Glänzel and Balázs Schlemmer National research profiles in a changing Europe (1983--2003) An exploratory study of sectoral characteristics in the Triple Helix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--275 Sujit Bhattacharya and Praveen Arora Industrial linkages in Indian universities: What they reveal and what they imply? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--300 Omar Belkhodja and Réjean Landry ``The Triple-Helix collaboration: Why do researchers collaborate with industry and the government? What are the factors that influence the perceived barriers?'' 301--332 Nicola Baldini and Rosa Grimaldi and Maurizio Sobrero To patent or not to patent? A survey of Italian inventors on motivations, incentives, and obstacles to university patenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--354 Paula Susana Figueiredo Moutinho and Margarida Fontes and Manuel Mira Godinho Do individual factors matter? A survey of scientists' patenting in Portuguese public research organisations . . . . . 355--377 Bruno Cassiman and Patrick Glenisson and Bart Van Looy Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--391 Eric J. Iversen and Magnus Gulbrandsen and Antje Klitkou A baseline for the impact of academic patenting legislation in Norway . . . . 393--414 Martin S. Meyer and Puay Tang Exploring the ``value'' of academic patents: IP management practices in UK universities and their implications for Third-Stream indicators . . . . . . . . 415--440 Bart Van Looy and Tom Magerman and Koenraad Debackere Developing technology in the vicinity of science: An examination of the relationship between science intensity (of patents) and technological productivity within the field of biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--458 Ronnie Ramlogan and Andrea Mina and Gindo Tampubolon and J. Stanley Metcalfe Networks of knowledge: The distributed nature of medical innovation . . . . . . 459--489 Antje Klitkou and Stian Nygaard and Martin Meyer Tracking techno-science networks: A case study of fuel cells and related hydrogen technology R&D in Norway . . . . . . . . 491--518 Hildrun Kretschmer and Ute Kretschmer and Theo Kretschmer Reflection of co-authorship networks in the Web: Web hyperlinks versus Web visibility rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--540
Anastassios Pouris Nanoscale research in South Africa: A mapping exercise based on scientometrics 541--553 Min-Wei Lin and Jingjing Zhang Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese-language publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--564 Ronald N. Kostoff and Raymond G. Koytcheff and Clifford G. Y. Lau Global nanotechnology research metrics 565--601 Diana Lucio-Arias and Loet Leydesdorff Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from ``fullerenes'' to ``nanotubes'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--632 Ismael Rafols and Martin Meyer How cross-disciplinary is bionanotechnology? Explorations in the specialty of molecular motors . . . . . 633--650 Tibor Braun and Sándor Zsindely and Ildikó Dióspatonyi and Erika Zádor Gatekeeping patterns in nano-titled journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--667 Joachim Schummer The global institutionalization of nanotechnology research: A bibliometric approach to the assessment of science policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--692 Loet Leydesdorff and Ping Zhou Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--713 Poh Kam Wong and Yuen Ping Ho and Casey K. Chan Internationalization and evolution of application areas of an emerging technology: The case of nanotechnology 715--737 Angela Hullmann Measuring and assessing the development of nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . 739--758 Osmo Kuusi and Martin Meyer Anticipating technological breakthroughs: Using bibliographic coupling to explore the nanotubes paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--777 Martin Meyer What do we know about innovation in nanotechnology? Some propositions about an emerging field between hype and path-dependency . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--810 Thomas Heinze and Gerrit Bauer Characterizing creative scientists in nano-S&T: Productivity, multidisciplinarity, and network brokerage in a longitudinal perspective 811--830 Douglas K. R. Robinson and Martin Ruivenkamp and Arie Rip Tracking the evolution of new and emerging S&T via statement-linkages: Vision assessment in molecular machines 831--858 Elise Bassecoulard and Alain Lelu and Michel Zitt Mapping nanosciences by citation flows: A preliminary analysis . . . . . . . . . 859--880
Rafael Bailón-Moreno and Encarnación Jurado-Alameda and Rosario Ruiz-Baños and Jean Pierre Courtial and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras The pulsing structure of science: Ortega y Gasset, Saint Matthew, fractality and transfractality . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24 B. S. Kademani and Vijai Kumar and Ganesh Surwase and Anil Sagar and Lalit Mohan and Anil Kumar and C. R. Gaderao Research and citation impact of publications by the Chemistry Division at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre . . . . 25--57 Jo Royle and Louisa Coles and Dorothy Williams and Paul Evans Publishing in international journals . . 59--86 Clara Calero and Thed N. van Leeuwen and Robert J. W. Tijssen Research cooperation within the bio-pharmaceutical industry: Network analyses of co-publications within and between firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99 Dar-Zen Chen and Wen-Yau Cathy Lin and Mu-Hsuan Huang Using Essential Patent Index and Essential Technological Strength to evaluate industrial technological innovation competitiveness . . . . . . . 101--116 Raúl Ramos and Vicente Royuela and Jordi Suriñach An analysis of the determinants in Economics and Business publications by Spanish universities between 1994 and 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--144 Christoph Neuhaus and Andreas Litscher and Hans-Dieter Daniel Using scripts to streamline citation analysis on STN International . . . . . 145--150 Tzeng-Ji Chen and Yu-Chun Chen and Shinn-Jang Hwang and Li-Fang Chou The contribution of Hong Kong to China's international scientific publications 151--154
Tibor Braun and Ildikó Dióspatonyi and Erika Zádor and Sándor Zsindely Journal gatekeepers indicator-based top universities of the world, of Europe and of 29 countries --- A pilot study . . . 155--178 K. T. Anuradha and Shalini R. Urs Bibliometric indicators of Indian research collaboration patterns: A correspondence analysis . . . . . . . . 179--189 Günter Krampen and Ralf Becker and Ute Wahner and Leo Montada On the validity of citation counting in science evaluation: Content analyses of references and citations in psychological publications . . . . . . . 191--202 Philip M. Davis and Michael J. Fromerth Does the arXiv lead to higher citations and reduced publisher downloads for mathematics articles? . . . . . . . . . 203--215 S. L. Sangam and Kiran Savanur and M. Manjunath Communication and collaborative research pattern of Sivaraj Ramaseshan: A scientometric portrait . . . . . . . . . 217--230 John Hudson Be known by the company you keep: Citations --- quality or chance? . . . . 231--238 Victor Rodriguez and Frizo Janssens and Koenraad Debackere and Bart De Moor Do material transfer agreements affect the choice of research agendas? The case of biotechnology in Belgium . . . . . . 239--269 Juan Imperial and Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro Usefulness of Hirsch's $h$-index to evaluate scientific research in Spain 271--282 N. Sombatsompop and T. Markpin and T. Buranathiti and P. Ratchatahirun and T. Metheenukul and N. Premkamolnetr and W. Yochai Categorization and trend of materials science research from Science Citation Index (SCI) database: A case study of ceramics, metallurgy, and polymer subfields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--302 Robert J. W. Tijssen Africa's contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--327 Anastassios Pouris Is fundamentalism a threat to science? Evidence from scientometrics . . . . . . 329--338 Guang Yu and Yi-Jun Li Parameter identification of the observed citation distribution . . . . . . . . . 339--348
Gualberto Buela-Casal and Olga Gutiérrez-Martínez and María Paz Bermúdez-Sánchez and Oscar Vadillo-Muñoz Comparative study of international academic rankings of universities . . . 349--365 Arlette Jappe Explaining international collaboration in global environmental change research 367--390 Loet Leydesdorff Mapping interdisciplinarity at the interfaces between the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--405 Fred Y. Ye A quantitative relationship between per capita GDP and scientometric criteria 407--413 Hakan Yaman and E. Atay PhD theses in Turkish sports sciences: A study covering the years 1988--2002 . . 415--421 Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Felipe Zapico-Alonso and María Eugenia Espinosa-Calvo and Rocío Gómez-Crisóstomo and Félix de Moya-Anegón Import--export of knowledge between scientific subject categories: The Iceberg Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 423--441 Beatriz Junquera and María Mitre Value of bibliometric analysis for research policy: A case study of Spanish research into innovation and technology management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--454 Kiyong Om and Jungmann Lee and Juno Chang Using supply chain management to enhance industry-university collaborations in IT higher education in Korea . . . . . . . 455--471 Remigiusz Sapa International contribution to library and information science in Poland: A bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . 473--493 Gerben van der Panne Issues in measuring innovation . . . . . 495--507 Shyh-Jen Wang Factors to evaluate a patent in addition to citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--522 Nigel Payne and Mike Thelwall A longitudinal study of academic webs: Growth and stabilisation . . . . . . . . 523--539 Tibor Braun and Ildikó Dióspatonyi and Sándor Zsindely and Erika Zádor Gatekeeper index versus impact factor of science journals . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--543
G. Steven McMillan and Robert D. Hamilton III The public science base of US biotechnology: A citation-weighted approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 Goya Harirchi and Göran Melin and Shapour Etemad An exploratory study of the feature of Iranian co-authorships in biology, chemistry and physics . . . . . . . . . 11--24 Razvan V. Florian Irreproducibility of the results of the Shanghai academic ranking of world universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32 Jorge Alcaide-Marzal and Enrique Tortajada-Esparza Innovation assessment in traditional industries. A proposal of aesthetic innovation indicators . . . . . . . . . 33--57 Jesús Rey-Rocha and Belén Garzón-García and M. José Martín-Sempere Exploring social integration as a determinant of research activity, performance and prestige of scientists. Empirical evidence in the Biology and Biomedicine field . . . . . . . . . . . 59--80 Liwen Vaughan and Margaret E. I. Kipp and Yijun Gao Why are Websites co-linked? The case of Canadian universities . . . . . . . . . 81--92 Manuel Krauskopf and Erwin Krauskopf and Bernardita Méndez Low awareness of the link between science and innovation affects public policies in developing countries: The Chilean case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--103 Helmut A. Abt The frequencies of multinational papers in various sciences . . . . . . . . . . 105--115 Alan L. Porter and Alex S. Cohen and J. David Roessner and Marty Perreault Measuring researcher interdisciplinarity 117--147 Zi-Lin He and Min Deng The evidence of systematic noise in non-patent references: A study of New Zealand companies' patents . . . . . . . 149--166
Rodrigo Costas and Isabel Iribarren-Maestro Variations in content and format of ISI databases in their different versions: The case of the Science Citation Index in CD--ROM and the Web of Science . . . 167--183 Ping Zhou and Loet Leydesdorff The citation impacts and citation environments of Chinese journals in mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--200 Kun-Yang Chuang and Ya-Li Huang and Yuh-Shan Ho A bibliometric and citation analysis of stroke-related research in Taiwan . . . 201--212 Avishag Gordon Transient and continuant authors in a research field: The case of terrorism 213--224 Maria Pinto and Anne-Vinciane Doucet An educational resource for information literacy in higher education: Functional and users analyses of the e-COMS academic portal . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--252 Antonis Sidiropoulos and Dimitrios Katsaros and Yannis Manolopoulos Generalized Hirsch $h$-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--280 José M. Soler Separating the articles of authors with the same name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290 Saralees Nadarajah and Samuel Kotz Models for citation behavior . . . . . . 291--305 Mathieu Ouimet and Nabil Amara and Réjean Landry and John Lavis Direct interactions medical school faculty members have with professionals and managers working in public and private sector organizations: A cross-sectional study . . . . . . . . . 307--323 Jonathan Adams and Karen Gurney and Stuart Marshall Profiling citation impact: A new methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--344 María Pinto and Dora Sales and Anne-Vinciane Doucet and Andrés Fernández-Ramos and David Guerrero Metric analysis of the information visibility and diffusion about the European Higher Education Area on Spanish University websites . . . . . . 345--370
Mee-Jean Kim A bibliometric analysis of the effectiveness of Korea's Biotechnology Stimulation Plans, with a comparison with four other Asian nations . . . . . 371--388 Xiaojun Hu Relative Superiority Coefficient of papers: A new dimension for institutional research performance in different fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--402 Jiancheng Guan and Ying He Patent-bibliometric analysis on the Chinese science--technology linkages . . 403--425 James H. Fowler and Dag W. Aksnes Does self-citation pay? . . . . . . . . 427--437 Grant Lewison The reporting of the risks from genetically modified organisms in the mass media, 2002--2004 . . . . . . . . . 439--458 Gertrude Case Buehring and Jessica E. Buehring and Patrick D. Gerard Lost in citation: Vanishing visibility of senior authors . . . . . . . . . . . 459--468 Iina Hellsten and Renaud Lambiotte and Andrea Scharnhorst and Marcel Ausloos Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists' field mobility? . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--486 Katarina Prpi\'c Changes of scientific knowledge production and research productivity in a transitional society . . . . . . . . . 487--511 Ronald N. Kostoff The difference between highly and poorly cited medical articles in the journal Lancet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--520
Wen-Ta Chiu and Yuh-Shan Ho Bibliometric analysis of tsunami research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 Quentin L. Burrell Hirsch index or Hirsch rate? Some thoughts arising from Liang's data . . . 19--28 Iraj Daizadeh Issued US patents, patent-related global academic and media publications, and the US market indices are inter-correlated, with varying growth patterns . . . . . . 29--36 Júlio Cesar Rodrigues Pereira and Juliana Parreira Vasconcellos and Lucilla Furusawa and Augusto De Moura Barbati Who's who and what's what in Brazilian Public Health Sciences . . . . . . . . . 37--52 Félix de Moya-Anegón and Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez and Benjamín Vargas-Quesada and Elena Corera-Álvarez and Francisco José Muñoz-Fernández and Antonio González-Molina and Victor Herrero-Solana Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--78 Jochen Krauss Journal self-citation rates in ecological sciences . . . . . . . . . . 79--89 Edit Csajbók and Anna Berhidi and Lívia Vasas and András Schubert Hirsch-index for countries based on Essential Science Indicators data . . . 91--117
Jürgen Harald Jacob and Siegfried Lehrl and Andreas Wolfram Henkel Early recognition of high quality researchers of the German psychiatry by worldwide accessible bibliometric indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--130 Arthur M. Diamond,, Jr. and Robert J. Toth The determinants of election to the Presidency of the American Economic Association: Evidence from a cohort of distinguished 1950's economists . . . . 131--137 Lutz Bornmann and Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel Row-column (RC) association model applied to grant peer review . . . . . . 139--147 P. Senthilkumaran and A. Amudhavalli Mapping of spices research in Asian countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159 Quentin L. Burrell Time-dependent aspects of co-concentration in informetrics . . . . 161--174 Marianne Gauffriau and Peder Olesen Larsen and Isabelle Maye and Anne Roulin-Perriard and Markus von Ins Publication, cooperation and productivity measures in scientific research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--214 Radu Munteanu and Marin Apetroae Journal relatedness: An actor-actor and actor-objectives case study . . . . . . 215--230 Claude Robert and Concepción S. Wilson and Jean-François Gaudy and Charles-Daniel Arreto The evolution of the sleep science literature over 30 years: A bibliometric analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--256
Budiman Minasny and Alfred E. Hartemink and Alex McBratney Soil science and the $h$ index . . . . . 257--264 Feng Zhou and Huai-Cheng Guo and Yuh-Shan Ho and Chao-Zhong Wu Scientometric analysis of geostatistics using multivariate methods . . . . . . . 265--279 Helmut A. Abt The publication rate of scientific papers depends only on the number of scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288 Ana Andrés and Juana Gómez and Carmina Saldaña The Transtheoretical Model and obesity: A bibliometric study . . . . . . . . . . 289--301 Juan E. Iglesias and Carlos Pecharromán Scaling the $h$-index for different scientific ISI fields . . . . . . . . . 303--320 Guang Yu and Liang Wang The self-cited rate of scientific journals and the manipulation of their impact factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--330 Shuhua Wang and Hengjun Wang and Paul R. Weldon Bibliometric analysis of English-language academic journals of China and their internationalization . . 331--343 Tibor Braun and András Schubert The growth of research on inter-and multidisciplinarity in science and social science papers, 1975--2006 . . . 345--351 Helmut A. Abt The future of single-authored papers . . 353--358 Anonymous Index to Volume 73 . . . . . . . . . . . 359--360 Anonymous Author Index to Volume 73 . . . . . . . 361--362
Anonymous Editorial announcement . . . . . . . . . 3--3 Anonymous Katherine W. McCain wins the 2007 Derek John de Solla Price Medal . . . . . . . 5--6 Howard D. White Katherine McCain: Recipient of the 2007 Derek de Solla Price Award of the journal \booktitleScientometrics . . . . 7--10 Wolfgang Glänzel Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14 Andrea Bonaccorsi and Cinzia Daraio The differentiation of the strategic profile of higher education institutions. New positioning indicators based on microdata . . . . . . . . . . . 15--37 Linda Butler ICT assessment: Moving beyond journal outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--55 Lixin Chen and Ronald Rousseau $Q$-measures for binary divided networks: Bridges between German and English institutes in publications of the \booktitleJournal of Fluid Mechanics 57--69 Wolfgang Glänzel and Koenraad Debackere and Martin Meyer `Triad' or `tetrad'? On global changes in a dynamic world . . . . . . . . . . . 71--88 Thilo Gamber and Monika Friedrich-Nishio and Hariolf Grupp Science and technology in standardization: A statistical analysis of merging knowledge structures . . . . 89--108 Vincent Larivi\`ere and Alesia Zuccala and Éric Archambault The declining scientific impact of theses: Implications for electronic thesis and dissertation repositories and graduate studies . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121 Katarina Larsen Knowledge network hubs and measures of research impact, science structure, and publication output in nanostructured solar cell research . . . . . . . . . . 123--142 Szu-Chia Lo Patent coupling analysis of primary organizations in genetic engineering research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151 Henk F. Moed UK Research Assessment Exercises: Informed judgments on research quality or quantity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--161 Anton J. Nederhof Policy impact of bibliometric rankings of research performance of departments and individuals in economics . . . . . . 163--174
Ulf Sandström and Martin Hällsten Persistent nepotism in peer-review . . . 175--189 Robert D. Shelton Relations between national research investment and publication output: Application to an American Paradox . . . 191--205 Henry Small and Ann Kushmerick and Doug Benson Scientists' perceptions of the social and political implications of their research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221 Bart Thijs and Wolfgang Glänzel A structural analysis of publication profiles for the classification of European research institutes . . . . . . 223--236 Peter Vinkler Correlation between the structure of scientific research, scientometric indicators and GDP in EU and non-EU countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--254 Judit Bar-Ilan Which $h$-index? --- a comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar . . . . . 257--271 Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall Sources of Google Scholar citations outside the Science Citation Index: A comparison between four science disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--294 Jose Luis Ortega and Isidro Aguillo and Viv Cothey and Andrea Scharnhorst Maps of the academic web in the European Higher Education Area --- an exploration of visual web indicators . . . . . . . . 295--308 Alastair G. Smith Benchmarking Google Scholar with the New Zealand PBRF research assessment exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316 Liwen Vaughan and Debora Shaw A new look at evidence of scholarly citation in citation indexes and from web sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--330
Sandra Miguel and Félix Moya-Anegón and Víctor Herrero-Solana A new approach to institutional domain analysis: Multilevel research fronts structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--344 Yoon Hee Yoon and Kim Sin Young Correlation analysis between university research competitiveness and library's scholarly information in OECD nations and Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--360 Ulrich Schmoch and Torben Schubert Are international co-publications an indicator for quality of scientific research? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--377 Carlos B. Amat Editorial and publication delay of papers submitted to 14 selected Food Research journals. Influence of online posting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--389 Osmo Kivinen and Juha Hedman World-wide university rankings: A Scandinavian approach . . . . . . . . . 391--408 Candan Gokceoglu and Aral I. Okay and Ebru Sezer International earth science literature from Turkey --- 1970--2005: Trends and possible causes . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423 AntÔnio F. Pereira De Araújo Increasing discrepancy between absolute and effective indexes of research output in a Brazilian academic department . . . 425--437 Tove Faber Frandsen On the ratio of citable versus non-citable items in economics journals 439--451 Mohammad Hossein Biglu The influence of references per paper in the SCI to Impact Factors and the Matthew Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--470 Yichuan Jiang Locating active actors in the scientific collaboration communities based on interaction topology analyses . . . . . 471--482
Sung-Soo Seol and Jung-Min Park Knowledge sources of innovation studies in Korea: A citation analysis . . . . . 3--20 Grant Lewison and Ramesh Kundra The internal migration of Indian scientists, 1981--2003, from an analysis of surnames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35 David Chavalarias and Jean-Philippe Cointet Bottom-up scientific field detection for dynamical and hierarchical science mapping, methodology and case study . . 37--50 Chen-Yuan Liu and Shenq-Yih Luo Analysis of developing a specific technological field using the theme code of Japanese patent information . . . . . 51--65 Huang Yi and Xiaolan Ao and Yuh-Shan Ho Use of citation per publication as an indicator to evaluate pentachlorophenol research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--80 Jonathan Adams and Karen Gurney and Louise Jackson Calibrating the zoom --- a test of Zitt's hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95 Zhi Li and Yuh-Shan Ho Use of citation per publication as an indicator to evaluate contingent valuation research . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110 Huang Yi and Zhao Xi Trends of DDT research during the period of 1991 to 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--122 B. M. Gupta and S. M. Dhawan Condensed matter physics: An analysis of India's research output, 1993--2001 . . 123--144 F. Collazo-Reyes and M. E. Luna-Morales and J. M. Russell and M. A. Pérez-Angón Publication and citation patterns of Latin American & Caribbean journals in the SCI and SSCI from 1995 to 2004 . . . 145--161 Jean-François Molinari and Alain Molinari A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174 Marija Petek Personal name headings in COBIB: Testing Lotka's Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--188
Haiyan Hou and Hildrun Kretschmer and Zeyuan Liu The structure of scientific collaboration networks in \booktitleScientometrics . . . . . . . . 189--202 Shlomo Argamon and Jeff Dodick and Paul Chase Language use reflects scientific methodology: A corpus-based study of peer-reviewed journal articles . . . . . 203--238 Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack Thought leadership: A new indicator for national and institutional comparison 239--250 T. Markpin and B. Boonradsamee and K. Ruksinsut and W. Yochai and N. Premkamolnetr and P. Ratchatahirun and N. Sombatsompop Article-count impact factor of materials science journals in SCI database . . . . 251--261 Mladen Andreis and Maja Joki\'c An impact of Croatian journals measured by citation analysis from SCI-expanded database in time span 1975--2001 . . . . 263--288 Nicola Baldini Negative effects of university patenting: Myths and grounded evidence 289--311 Julia Osca-Lluch and Pedro Blesa and José Manuel Barrueco and Elena Velasco and Thomas Krichel Some aspects of citation indexes in Spain: A comparative analysis . . . . . 313--318 Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Nicolas van Zeebroeck A brief history of space and time: The scope-year index as a patent value indicator based on families and renewals 319--338 Alain Molinari and Jean-François Molinari Mathematical aspects of a new criterion for ranking scientific institutions based on the $h$-index . . . . . . . . . 339--356 Jiancheng Guan and Xia Gao Comparison and evaluation of Chinese research performance in the field of bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--379 Jirí Vanecek Patenting propensity in the Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--394 Frances Ruane and Richard S. J. Tol Rational (successive) $h$-indices: An application to economics in the Republic of Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--405
Mike Thelwall and Alesia Zuccala A university-centred European Union link analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--420 Ming-Yueh Tsay A bibliometric analysis of hydrogen energy literature, 1965--2005 . . . . . 421--438 Han Woo Park and Loet Leydesdorff Korean journals in the Science Citation Index: What do they reveal about the intellectual structure of S&T in Korea? 439--462 Yong-Gil Lee Patent licensability and life: A study of U.S. patents registered by South Korean public research institutes . . . 463--471 Emilia Currás and Enrique Wulff Barreiro Integration in Europe of human genetics results obtained by Spaniards in the USA: A historical perspective . . . . . 473--493 Luís M. A. Bettencourt and David I. Kaiser and Jasleen Kaur and Carlos Castillo-Chávez and David E. Wojick Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields . . . . 495--518 Ying He and Jiancheng Guan Contribution of Chinese publications in computer science: A case study on LNCS 519--534 Hyukjoon Kim and Yongtae Park The impact of R&D collaboration on innovative performance in Korea: A Bayesian network approach . . . . . . . 535--554 Pauline Mattsson and Patrice Laget and Anna Nilsson and Carl-Johan Sundberg Intra-EU vs. extra-EU scientific co-publication patterns in EU . . . . . 555--574 Ronald Rousseau and Lin Zhang Betweenness centrality and $Q$-measures in directed valued networks . . . . . . 575--590 Judit Bar-Ilan The $h$-index of $h$-index and of other informetric topics . . . . . . . . . . . 591--605 Frizo Janssens and Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart De Moor A hybrid mapping of information science 607--631
Günter Krampen The evaluation of university departments and their scientists: Some general considerations with reference to exemplary bibliometric publication and citation analyses for a Department of psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21 Hajime Eto Scientometric definition of science: In what respect is the humanities more scientific than mathematical and social sciences? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--42 Ronald N. Kostoff and Ryan B. Barth and Clifford G. Y. Lau Relation of seminal nanotechnology document production to total nanotechnology document production --- South Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--67 Hajar Sotudeh and Abbas Horri Great expectations: The role of Open Access in improving countries' recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--93 Chiang Kao and Hsiou-Wei Lin and San-Lin Chung and Wei-Chi Tsai and Jyh-Shen Chiou and Yen-Liang Chen and Liang-Hsuan Chen and Shih-Chieh Fang and Hwei-Lan Pao Ranking Taiwanese management journals: A case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115 Leo Egghe The mathematical relation between the impact factor and the uncitedness factor 117--123 Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam and Mostafa Moballeghi How do we measure the use of scientific journals? A note on research methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133 Dalibor Fiala and François Rousselot and Karel Jezek PageRank for bibliographic networks . . 135--158 Loet Leydesdorff The delineation of nanoscience and nanotechnology in terms of journals and patents: A most recent update . . . . . 159--167 Nick Haslam and Lauren Ban and Leah Kaufmann and Stephen Loughnan and Kim Peters and Jennifer Whelan and Sam Wilson What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social and personality psychology . . . . . . . . . 169--185 Michael Schreiber The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's $g$ index . . . . 187--200
Luciano Lombardo New indicators linking patenting and business R&D expenditure . . . . . . . . 201--224 Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Fabio Pugini The measurement of Italian universities' research productivity by a non parametric-bibliometric methodology . . 225--244 Ruimin Ma and Chaoqun Ni and Junping Qiu Scientific research competitiveness of world universities in computer science 245--260 Dario Sambunjak and Ana Ivanis and Ana Marusi\'c and Matko Marusi\'c Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the Journal Citation Reports . . . . . . . . 261--271 Per Ahlgren and Bo Jarneving Bibliographic coupling, common abstract stems and clustering: A comparison of two document-document similarity approaches in the context of science mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--290 Albert Navarro and Miguel Martin Scientific production and collaboration in Epidemiology and Public Health, 1997--2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--313 Erjia Yan and Qinghua Zhu Hyperlink analysis for government websites of Chinese provincial capitals 315--326 Junping Qiu and Yejun Li and Jiang Li and Quane Ren An exploratory study on substantive co-link analysis: A modification to total co-link analysis . . . . . . . . . 327--341 Marcus Antonius Ynalvez and Wesley Shrum International graduate training, digital inequality and professional network structure: An ego-centric social network analysis of knowledge producers at the ``Global South'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--368 Sune Lehmann and Andrew D. Jackson and Benny E. Lautrup A quantitative analysis of indicators of scientific performance . . . . . . . . . 369--390 Eva M. Sònderstrup-Andersen and Hans H. K. Sònderstrup-Andersen An investigation into diabetes researcher's perceptions of the Journal Impact Factor --- reconsidering evaluating research . . . . . . . . . . 391--406
Guang Yu and Da-Ren Yu Design and simulation on the publication delay control system . . . . . . . . . . 407--427 Luis M. Plaza and Armando Albert Scientific literature cited in USPTO patent documents as indicators for the evaluation and analysis of Spanish scientific research in biomedical disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--438 Svein Kyvik and Terje Bruen Olsen Does the aging of tenured academic staff affect the research performance of universities? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--455 M. José Martín-Sempere and Belén Garzón-García and Jesús Rey-Rocha Team consolidation, social integration and scientists' research performance: An empirical study in the Biology and Biomedicine field . . . . . . . . . . . 457--482 Seema Sharma and V. J. Thomas Inter-country R&D efficiency analysis: An application of data envelopment analysis 483--501 Woo Hyoung Lee How to identify emerging research fields using scientometrics: An example in the field of Information Security . . . . . 503--525 Claudio Nicolini and Fabrizio Nozza Objective assessment of scientific performances world-wide . . . . . . . . 527--541 Çetin Önder and Mehmet Sevkli and Taner Altinok and Cengiz Tavukçuo\uglu Institutional change and scientific research: A preliminary bibliometric analysis of institutional influences on Turkey's recent social science publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--560 Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez and Antonio Gutiérrez-Gracia and Jaider Vega-Jurado Coexistence of university-industry relations and academic research: Barrier to or incentive for scientific productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--576 Thomas R. Anderson and Robin K. S. Hankin and Peter D. Killworth Beyond the Durfee square: Enhancing the $h$-index to score total publication output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--588
Bangrae Lee and Yong-Il Jeong Mapping Korea's national R&D domain of robot technology by using the co-word analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19 M. R. Davarpanah and S. Aslekia A scientometric analysis of international LIS journals: Productivity and characteristics . . . . . . . . . . 21--39 Jonathan M. Levitt and Mike Thelwall Patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles and the prediction of their citation ranking: A comparison across subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--60 Geert van Campenhout and Tom van Caneghem and Steve van Uytbergen A comparison of overall and sub-area journal influence: The case of the accounting literature . . . . . . . . . 61--90 Soo-Ryun Cho New evaluation indexes for articles and authors' academic achievements based on Open Access Resources . . . . . . . . . 91--112 Shaodong Xie and Jing Zhang and Yuh-Shan Ho Assessment of world aerosol research trends by bibliometric analysis . . . . 113--130 M. Luisa Lascurain-Sánchez and Carlos García-Zorita and Carmen Martín-Moreno and Carlos Suárez-Balseiro and Elías Sanz-Casado Impact of health science research on the Spanish health system, based on bibliometric and healthcare indicators 131--146 Marianne Gauffriau and Peder Olesen Larsen and Isabelle Maye and Anne Roulin-Perriard and Markus von Ins Comparisons of results of publication counting using different methods . . . . 147--176 Yi Huang and Qing Yang and Xiaolan Ao Bibliometric analysis of pentachlorophenol remediation methods during the period of 1994 to 2005 . . . 177--186 Wolfgang Glänzel On some new bibliometric applications of statistics related to the $h$-index . . 187--196 Sándor Zsindely From vanity fair to scientific research: The place of genealogy in contemporary science. A scientometric approach . . . 197--206
Pentti Riikonen and Mauno Vihinen National research contributions: A case study on Finnish biomedical research . . 207--222 Sandra Rousseau Journal evaluation by environmental and resource economists: A survey . . . . . 223--233 Peder Olesen Larsen The state of the art in publication counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--251 Nigel Harwood Publication outlets and their effect on academic writers' citations . . . . . . 253--265 Rodrigo Costas and María Bordons Is $g$-index better than $h$-index? An exploratory study at the individual level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--288 Masatsura Igami Exploration of the evolution of nanotechnology via mapping of patent applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--308 Koen Jonkers and Robert Tijssen Chinese researchers returning home: Impacts of international mobility on research collaboration and scientific productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--333 Junping Qiu and Ruimin Ma and Ni Cheng New exploratory work of evaluating a researcher's output . . . . . . . . . . 335--344 Jiri Vanecek Bibliometric analysis of the Czech research publications from 1994 to 2005 345--360 Mariana Pires Da Luz and Carla Marques-Portella and Mauro Mendlowicz and Sonia Gleiser and Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho and Ivan Figueira Institutional $h$-index: The performance of a new metric in the evaluation of Brazilian Psychiatric Post-graduation Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368 Wolfgang Glänzel H-index concatenation . . . . . . . . . 369--372 Lev A. Zhivotovsky and Konstantin V. Krutovsky Self-citation can inflate $h$-index . . 373--375
Leo Egghe Modelling successive $h$-indices . . . . 377--387 Prabir G. Dastidar and S. Ramachandran Intellectual structure of Antarctic science: A $ 25$-years analysis . . . . 389--414 Lutz Bornmann and Irina Nast and Hans-Dieter Daniel Do editors and referees look for signs of scientific misconduct when reviewing manuscripts? A quantitative content analysis of studies that examined review criteria and reasons for accepting and rejecting manuscripts for publication 415--432 Liwen Vaughan and Justin You Content assisted web co-link analysis for competitive intelligence . . . . . . 433--444 Seung-Hoon Yoo and Hye-Seon Moon A note on approximation of distribution function for the number of innovation activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452 Maite Barrios and Angel Borrego and Andreu Vilaginés and Candela Ollé and Marta Somoza A bibliometric study of psychological research on tourism . . . . . . . . . . 453--467 Anna Villarroya and Maite Barrios and Angel Borrego and Amparo Frías PhD theses in Spain: A gender study covering the years 1990--2004 . . . . . 469--483 Bo Jarneving A variation of the calculation of the first author cocitation strength in author cocitation analysis . . . . . . . 485--504
Jerome K. Vanclay Bias in the journal impact factor . . . 3--12 T. Buranathiti and N. Premkamolnetr and T. Markpin and P. Ratchatahirun and W. Yochai and N. Sombatsompop Redistributed random sampling method for categorizing materials research publications from SCI database: Metallurgy and polymer subfields . . . . 13--21 Loet Leydesdorff and Caroline Wagner Is the United States losing ground in science? A global perspective on the world science system . . . . . . . . . . 23--36 Annamária Inzelt and András Schubert and Mihály Schubert Incremental citation impact due to international co-authorship in Hungarian higher education institutions . . . . . 37--43 Jonathan M. Levitt and Mike Thelwall The most highly cited Library and Information Science articles: Interdisciplinarity, first authors and citation patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 45--67 Christian Sternitzke Technological specialization and patenting strategies in East Asia --- Insights from the electronics industry 69--76 E. R. Prakasan and V. L. Kalyane and Vijai Kumar Sustained impact of publications of C. V. Raman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97 Marek Szydlowski and Adam Krawiec Growth cycles of knowledge . . . . . . . 99--111 Christian Sternitzke and Isumo Bergmann Similarity measures for document mapping: A comparative study on the level of an individual scientist . . . . 113--130 Anastassios Pouris Fluorine research in South Africa and four benchmarking countries: Comparative mapping and assessment . . . . . . . . . 131--143 John Rigby Comparing the scientific quality achieved by funding instruments for single grant holders and for collaborative networks within a research system: Some observations . . . . . . . 145--164 Wolfgang Glänzel and Bart Thijs and András Schubert and Koenraad Debackere Subfield-specific normalized relative indicators and a new generation of relational charts: Methodological foundations illustrated on the assessment of institutional research performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--188
Christian Sternitzke The international preliminary examination of patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty- a proxy for patent value? . . . . . . . . 189--202 Hamid Bouabid and Ben R. Martin Evaluation of Moroccan research using a bibliometric-based approach: investigation of the validity of the $h$-index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217 Christoph Neuhaus and Hans-Dieter Daniel A new reference standard for citation analysis in chemistry and related fields based on the sections of Chemical Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229 Rebecca Long and Aleta Crawford and Michael White and Kimberly Davis Determinants of faculty research productivity in information systems: An empirical analysis of the impact of academic origin and academic affiliation 231--260 Chiang Kao and Hwei-Lan Pao An evaluation of research performance in management of 168 Taiwan universities 261--277 Ming-Yueh Tsay An analysis and comparison of scientometric data between journals of physics, chemistry and engineering . . . 279--293 B. M. Gupta and S. M. Dhawan Status of physics research in India: An analysis of research output during 1993--2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--316 René van der Wal and Anke Fischer and Mick Marquiss and Steve Redpath and Sarah Wanless Is bigger necessarily better for environmental research? . . . . . . . . 317--322 Cédric Gossart and Müge Özman Co-authorship networks in social sciences: The case of Turkey . . . . . . 323--345 Michal Jasienski Garfield's demon and ``surprising'' or ``unexpected'' results in science . . . 347--353 Wolfgang Glänzel The multi-dimensionality of journal impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374 András Schubert and András Korn and András Telcs Hirsch-type indices for characterizing networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--382
Javier Valles-Valenzuela and María D. Pérez-Cárceles and Eduardo Osuna and Aurelio Luna Quantitative analysis of Spanish university scientific output in the area of Legal and Forensic Medicine: International exposure . . . . . . . . . 383--395 Chiang Kao The authorship and country spread of Operation Research journals . . . . . . 397--407 Ron Johnston The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline's literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--420 Hua Yang The top 40 citation classics in the \booktitleJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--426 Eric Zimmerman and Wolfgang Glänzel and Judit Bar-Ilan Scholarly collaboration between Europe and Israel: A scientometric examination of a changing landscape . . . . . . . . 427--446 C. B. Amat and A. Yegros Yegros Median age difference of references as indicator of information update of research groups: A case study in Spanish food research . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--465 Pablo Jensen and Jean-Baptiste Rouquier and Yves Croissant Testing bibliometric indicators by their prediction of scientists promotions . . 467--479 Zhiqiang Wu An empirical study of the accessibility of web references in two Chinese academic journals . . . . . . . . . . . 481--503 Kazuaki Yanagisawa and Shoji Takahashi Socio-economic effects of the material science in JAERI . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--524 Paul F. Skilton Does the human capital of teams of natural science authors predict citation frequency? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--542 Yoshiyuki Takeda and Yuya Kajikawa Optics: a bibliometric approach to detect emerging research domains and intellectual bases . . . . . . . . . . . 543--558 András Schubert Using the $h$-index for assessing single publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--565
Wolfgang Glänzel and Henk F. Moed Preface: The 11$^{th}$ International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5 Judit Bar-Ilan and Bluma C. Peritz The lifespan of ``informetrics'' on the Web: An eight year study (1998--2006) 7--25 Kevin W. Boyack Using detailed maps of science to identify potential collaborations . . . 27--44 Kevin W. Boyack and Katy Börner and Richard Klavans Mapping the structure and evolution of chemistry research . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60 Robert Braam Everything about genes: Some results on the dynamics of genomics research . . . 61--77 Quentin L. Burrell On Hirsch's $h$, Egghe's $g$ and Kosmulski's $ h(2)$ . . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Mario Coccia Research performance and bureaucracy within public research labs . . . . . . 93--107 Wolfgang Glänzel and Frizo Janssens and Bart Thijs A comparative analysis of publication activity and citation impact based on the core literature in bioinformatics 109--129 Isabel Gómez and María Bordons and M. Teresa Fernández and Fernanda Morillo Structure and research performance of Spanish universities . . . . . . . . . . 131--146 Stevan Harnad Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise . . . . . . 147--156 Kim Holmberg and Mike Thelwall Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis . . . 157--169 Stefan Hornbostel and Susan Böhmer and Bernd Klingsporn and Jörg Neufeld and Markus von Ins Funding of young scientist and scientific excellence . . . . . . . . . 171--190 Isabel Iribarren-Maestro and María Luisa Lascurain-Sánchez and Elías Sanz-Casado Are multi-authorship and visibility related? Study of ten research areas at Carlos III University of Madrid . . . . 191--200 Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras and Daniel Torres-Salinas and Rafael Bailón Moreno and Rosario Ruiz Baños and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar Response Surface Methodology and its application in evaluating scientific activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--218
Gavin LaRowe and Sumeet Ambre and John Burgoon and Weimao Ke and Katy Börner The Scholarly Database and its utility for scientometrics research . . . . . . 219--234 Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau Properties of Hirsch-type indices: the case of library classification categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--248 Valentina A. Markusova and Margriet Jansz and Alexandr N. Libkind and Ilya Libkind and Alexander Varshavsky Trends in Russian research output in post-Soviet era . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--260 Ed C. M. Noyons and Clara Calero-Medina Applying bibliometric mapping in a high level science policy context . . . . . . 261--275 Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha and Dennis N. Ocholla Is HIV/AIDS in Africa distinct? What can we learn from an analysis of the literature? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--296 Anastassios Pouris and Anthipi Pouris The state of science and technology in Africa (2000--2004): A scientometric assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--309 Suzy Ramanana-Rahary and Michel Zitt and Ronald Rousseau Aggregation properties of relative impact and other classical indicators: Convexity issues and the Yule--Simpson paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--327 Ana Romero-De-Pablos and Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro Internationalisation of patents by Public Research Organisations from a historical and an economic perspective 329--340 Ulf Sandström Research quality and diversity of funding: A model for relating research money to output of research . . . . . . 341--349 Robert D. Shelton and Patricia Foland and Roman Gorelskyy Do new SCI journals have a different national bias? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--363 Henry Small and Phineas Upham Citation structure of an emerging research area on the verge of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375 Bart Thijs and Wolfgang Glänzela A structural analysis of benchmarks on different bibliometrical indicators for European research institutes based on their research profile . . . . . . . . . 377--388 Thed N. van Leeuwen Strength and weakness of national science systems: A bibliometric analysis through cooperation patterns . . . . . . 389--408 Péter Vinkler Introducing the Current Contribution Index for characterizing the recent, relevant impact of journals . . . . . . 409--420 Liying Yang and Steven A. Morris and Elizabeth M. Barden Mapping institutions and their weak ties in a specialty: A case study of cystic fibrosis body composition research . . . 421--434 Fuyuki Yoshikane and Takayuki Nozawa and Susumu Shibui and Takafumi Suzuki An analysis of the connection between researchers' productivity and their co-authors' past attributions, including the importance in collaboration networks 435--449
Ming-Yueh Tsay Citation analysis of Ted Nelson's works and his influence on hypertext concept 451--472 Carmen López-Illescas and Ed C. M. Noyons and Martijn S. Visser and Félix De Moya-Anegón and Henk F. Moed Expansion of scientific journal categories using reference analysis: How can it be done and does it make a difference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--490 Fábio C. Gouveia and Eleonora Kurtenbach Mapping the web relations of science centres and museums from Latin America 491--505 Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge and Ronald Rousseau Influence of individual researchers' visibility on institutional impact: an example of Prathap's approach to successive $h$-indices . . . . . . . . . 507--516 Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Alessandro Caprasecca Gender differences in research productivity: A bibliometric analysis of the Italian academic system . . . . . . 517--539 Vladimir Pislyakov Comparing two ``thermometers'': Impact factors of 20 leading economic journals according to Journal Citation Reports and Scopus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--550 Christian Sternitzke Patents and publications as sources of novel and inventive knowledge . . . . . 551--561 Show-Ling Jang and Shihmin Lo and Wen Hao Chang How do latecomers catch up with forerunners? Analysis of patents and patent citations in the field of flat panel display technologies . . . . . . . 563--591 Ping Zhou and Bart Thijs and Wolfgang Glänzel Is China also becoming a giant in social sciences? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--621 Yong-Gil Lee What affects a patent's value? An analysis of variables that affect technological, direct economic, and indirect economic value: An exploratory conceptual approach . . . . . . . . . . 623--633 Éric Archambault and Vincent Larivi\`ere History of the journal impact factor: Contingencies and consequences . . . . . 635--649 Denis Arruda and Fábio Bezerra and Vânia Almeida Neris and Patricia Rocha De Toro and Jacques Wainera Brazilian computer science research: Gender and regional distributions . . . 651--665 Rafael Ball Scholarly communication in transition: The use of question marks in the titles of scientific articles in medicine, life sciences and physics 1966--2005 . . . . 667--679 Lola García-Santiago and Felix De Moya-Anegón Using co-outlinks to mine heterogeneous networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--702
Werner Marx and Manuel Cardona The citation impact outside references --- formal versus informal citations . . 1--21 Yoshiyuki Takeda and Shiho Mae and Yuya Kajikawa and Katsumori Matsushima Nanobiotechnology as an emerging research domain from nanotechnology: A bibliometric approach . . . . . . . . . 23--38 Ling-Li Li and Guohua Ding and Nan Feng and Ming-Huang Wang and Yuh-Shan Ho Global stem cell research trend: Bibliometric analysis as a tool for mapping of trends from 1991 to 2006 . . 39--58 Yuxian Liu and I. K. Ravichandra Rao and Ronald Rousseau Empirical series of journal $h$-indices: The JCR category Horticulture as a case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--74 Heejung Kim and Jae Yun Lee Archiving research trends in LIS domain using profiling analysis . . . . . . . . 75--90 Yueyang Zhao and Lei Cui and Hua Yang Evaluating reliability of co-citation clustering analysis in representing the research history of subject . . . . . . 91--102 Jesper W. Schneider and Birger Larsen and Peter Ingwersen A comparative study of first and all-author co-citation counting, and two different matrix generation approaches applied for author co-citation analyses 103--130 Manuel Acosta and Daniel Coronado and Ana Fernández Exploring the quality of environmental technology in Europe: evidence from patent citations . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--152 Ernesto R. Gantman International differences of productivity in scholarly management knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--165 Bhaskar Mukherjee Scholarly research in LIS open access electronic journals: A bibliometric study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--194 Ergin Elmacioglu and Dongwon Lee Modeling idiosyncratic properties of collaboration networks revisited . . . . 195--216 Sonia M. R. Vasconcelos and Martha M. Sorenson and Jacqueline Leta A new input indicator for the assessment of science & technology research? . . . . 217--230 Rolf Ketzler and Klaus F. Zimmermann Publications: German economic research institutes on track . . . . . . . . . . 231--252 Farzaneh Aminpour and Payam Kabiri and Zahra Otroj and Abbas Ali Keshtkar Webometric analysis of Iranian universities of medical sciences . . . . 253--264 Gualberto Buela-Casal and Izabela Zych and Ana Medina and María I. Viedma Del Jesus and Susana Lozano and Gloria Torres Analysis of the influence of the two types of the journal articles; theoretical and empirical on the impact factor of a journal . . . . . . . . . . 265--282 Xia Gao and Jiancheng Guan Networks of scientific journals: An exploration of Chinese patent data . . . 283--302
Ulrich Schmoch and Anthony F. J. Van Raan Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304 Weiwei Zhang and Weihong Qian and Yuh-Shan Ho A bibliometric analysis of research related to ocean circulation . . . . . . 305--316 Richard S. J. Tol The $h$-index and its alternatives: An application to the 100 most prolific economists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--324 Thierry Marchant An axiomatic characterization of the ranking based on the $h$-index and some other bibliometric rankings of authors 325--342 Michael S. Patterson and Simon Harris The relationship between reviewers' quality-scores and number of citations for papers published in the journal \booktitlePhysics in Medicine and Biology from 2003--2005 . . . . . . . . 343--349 K. Brad Wray The salaries of Italian Renaissance professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--357 Liming Liang and Ronald Rousseau Bibliometric characteristics of the journal \booktitleScience: Pre-Koshland, Koshland and post-Koshland period . . . 359--372 Julia Osca-Lluch and Elena Velasco and Mayte López and Julia Haba Co-authorship and citation networks in Spanish history of science research . . 373--383 Eli M. Blatt Differentiating, describing, and visualizing scientific space: A novel approach to the analysis of published scientific abstracts . . . . . . . . . . 385--406 Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent and Gregorio González-Alcaide and Alberto Miguel-Dasit and Carolina Navarro-Molina and Juan Carlos Valderrama-Zurián Full-text publications in peer-reviewed journals derived from presentations at three ISSI conferences . . . . . . . . . 407--418 Radhamany Sooryamoorthy Collaboration and publication: How collaborative are scientists in South Africa? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--439 Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro and Ignacio Fernández-de-Lucio and François Perruchas and Pauline Mattsson What do patent examiner inserted citations indicate for a region with low absorptive capacity? . . . . . . . . . . 441--455 Anselmo Garcia Cantú and Marcel Ausloos Organizational and dynamical aspects of a small network with two distinct communities: Neo-creationists vs. Evolution Defenders . . . . . . . . . . 457--472 B. M. Gupta and S. M. Dhawan Status of India in science and technology as reflected in its publication output in the Scopus international database, 1996--2006 . . . 473--490 Tomislav Hengl and Budiman Minasny and Michael Gould A geostatistical analysis of geostatistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--514 Antonia Andrade and Raúl González-Jonte and Juan Miguel Campanario Journals that increase their impact factor at least fourfold in a few years: The role of journal self-citations . . . 515--528 Renata R. Gonçalves and Christian Kieling and Rodrigo A. Bressan and Jair J. Mari and Luis A. Rohde The evaluation of scientific productivity in Brazil: An assessment of the mental health field . . . . . . . . 529--537 Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell and Rickard Danell Publication activity in complementary and alternative medicine . . . . . . . . 539--551 András Schubert and Mihály Schubert Outperform your neighbors . . . . . . . 553--558
G. Lalitha Kumari Synthetic Organic Chemistry research: Analysis by scientometric indicators . . 559--570 Tianwei He International scientific collaboration of China with the G7 countries . . . . . 571--582 Tianwei He and Wei Liu The internationalization of Chinese scientific journals: A quantitative comparison of three chemical journals from China, England and Japan . . . . . 583--593 Young Mee Chung and So Young Yu and Yong Kwang Kim and Su Yeon Kim Characteristics and link structure of a national scholarly Web space: The case of South Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--612 Frances P. Ruane and Richard S. J. Tol A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an illustration with trade economists . . . 613--624 Zouhayr Hayati and Saeideh Ebrahimy Correlation between quality and quantity in scientific production: A case study of Iranian organizations from 1997 to 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--636 Yu-Shan Chen and Ke-Chiun Chang Using neural network to analyze the influence of the patent performance upon the market value of the US pharmaceutical companies . . . . . . . . 637--655 Mark William Neff and Elizabeth A. Corley 35 years and 160,000 articles: A bibliometric exploration of the evolution of ecology . . . . . . . . . . 657--682 G. Steven McMillan Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the US biotechnology industry . . . . . . . . . 683--691 Claude Robert and Concepción S. Wilson and Stéphane Donnadieu and Jean-François Gaudy and Charles-Daniel Arreto Analysis of the medical and biological pain research literature in the European Union: A 2006 snapshot . . . . . . . . . 693--716 Heting Chu and Chen Xu Web 2.0 and its dimensions in the scholarly world . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--729 Iraj Daizadeh An intellectual property-based corporate strategy: An R&D spend, patent, trademark, media communication, and market price innovation agenda . . . . . 731--746 Antonio García Romero and José Navarrete Cortés and Cristina Escudero and Juan Antonio Fernández López and Juan Antonio Chaichío Moreno Measuring the influence of clinical trials citations on several bibliometric indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--760 Daniel Torres-Salinas and Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cózar and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras Ranking of departments and researchers within a university using two different databases: Web of Science versus Scopus 761--774 Koen Jonkers Emerging ties: Factors underlying China's co-publication patterns with Western European and North American research systems in three molecular life science subfields . . . . . . . . . . . 775--795 Víctor H. Cervantes and Ana Cristina Santana and Georgina Guilera and Juana Gómez-Benito Hierarchical linear models in psychiatry: A bibliometric study . . . . 797--808 Milan Randi\'c Citations versus limitations of citations: beyond Hirsch index . . . . . 809--818 Vladimir G. Deineko and Gerhard J. Woeginger A new family of scientific impact measures: The generalized Kosmulski-indices . . . . . . . . . . . 819--826 Elena Castro-Martínez and Fernando Jiménez-Sáez and Francisco Javier Ortega-Colomer Science and technology policies: A tale of political use, misuse and abuse of traditional R&D indicators . . . . . . . 827--844 Catherine Lecocq and Bart Van Looy The impact of collaboration on the technological performance of regions: time invariant or driven by life cycle dynamics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--865
Anonymous Péter Vinkler and Michel Zitt win the 2009 Derek John de Solla Price Medal . . 1--5 Hajar Sotudeh and Abbas Horri Countries positioning in open access journals system: An investigation of citation distribution patterns . . . . . 7--31 Ruimin Ma and Qiangbin Dai and Chaoqun Ni and Xuelu Li An author co-citation analysis of information science in China with Chinese Google Scholar search engine, 2004--2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46 Mohohlo Molatudi and Neo Molotja and Anastassios Pouris A bibliometric study of bioinformatics research in South Africa . . . . . . . . 47--59 César Antonio Pereira and Rogério Eduardo Rodrigues Bazi Flow and social relationships of knowledge in science, technology and innovation: A patentometric study of UNICAMP's technological production . . . 61--72 Yuen-Hsien Tseng and Yu-I Lin and Yi-Yang Lee and Wen-Chi Hung and Chun-Hsiang Lee A comparison of methods for detecting hot topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Christian Sternitzke Defining triadic patent families as a measure of technological strength . . . 91--109 Alesia Zuccala and Peter Van Den Besselaar Mapping review networks: Exploring research community roles and contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--122 Chiang Kao The authorship and internationality of Industrial Engineering journals . . . . 123--136 Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Alessandro Caprasecca The contribution of star scientists to overall sex differences in research productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156 Han Woo Park and Loet Leydesdorff Knowledge linkage structures in communication studies using citation analysis among communication journals 157--175 Radhamany Sooryamoorthy Do types of collaboration change citation? Collaboration and citation patterns of South African science publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--193 Ulrich Schmoch and Torben Schubert Sustainability of incentives for excellent research --- The German case 195--218 Politimi Eleni Valkimadi and Drosos E. Karageorgopoulos and Harissios Vliagoftis and Matthew E. Falagas Increasing dominance of English in publications archived by PubMed . . . . 219--223 Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote and Rocío Gómez-Crisóstomo and Luz María Romo-Fernández and Félix de Moya-Anegón Visibility and responsibility of women in research papers through the order of signatures: the case of the University of Extremadura, 1990--2005 . . . . . . . 225--238 Ricardo B. Duque and Wesley M. Shrum and Omar Barriga, Jr. and Guillermo Henríquez Internet practice and professional networks in Chilean science: Dependency or progress? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--263 María Pinto and David Guerrero and Andrés Fernández-Ramos and Anne-Vinciane Doucet Information provided by Spanish university websites on their assessment and quality processes . . . . . . . . . 265--289 László Á. Kóczy and Martin Strobel The invariant method can be manipulated 291--293 José Luis Ortega and Viv Cothey and Isidro F. Aguillo How old is the Web? Characterizing the age and the currency of the European scientific Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--309
Leo Egghe Comparative study of $h$-index sequences 311--320 Dean Hendrix Institutional self-citation rates: A three year study of universities in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--331 Jonathan C. Catling and Victoria L. Mason and Dominic Upton Quality is in the eye of the beholder? An evaluation of impact factors and perception of journal prestige in the UK 333--345 Jordi Ardanuy and Cristóbal Urbano and Lluís Quintana A citation analysis of Catalan literary studies (1974--2003): Towards a bibliometrics of humanities studies in minority languages . . . . . . . . . . . 347--366 Alfredo Yegros Yegros and Carlos B. Amat Editorial delay of food research papers is influenced by authors' experience but not by country of origin of the manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380 Rafael Ball and Bernhard Mittermaier and Dirk Tunger Creation of journal-based publication profiles of scientific institutions --- A methodology for the interdisciplinary comparison of scientific research based on the $J$-factor . . . . . . . . . . . 381--392 Narongrit Sombatsompop and T. Markpin and E. Wimolmala and P. Ratchatahirun and N. Premkamolnetr and B. Boonradsamee and W. Yochai Relationship on research publications and productivity-export volumes for natural rubber . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--405 Lutz Bornmann and Rüdiger Mutz and Hans-Dieter Daniel The influence of the applicants' gender on the modeling of a peer review process by using latent Markov models . . . . . 407--411 Nelius Boshoff Neo-colonialism and research collaboration in Central Africa . . . . 413--434 José María Gómez-Sancho and María Jesús Mancebón-Torrubia The evaluation of scientific production: Towards a neutral impact factor . . . . 435--458 Chuanfu Chen and Kai Sun and Gang Wu and Qiong Tang and Jian Qin and Kuei Chiu and Yushuang Fu and Xiaofang Wang and Jing Liu The impact of Internet resources on scholarly communication: A citation analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--474 Xiaojun Hu and Ronald Rousseau A comparative study of the difference in research performance in biomedical fields among selected Western and Asian countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--491 Fred Y. Ye An investigation on mathematical models of the $h$-index . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--498 Haiyang Lu and Yuqiang Feng A measure of authors' centrality in co-authorship networks based on the distribution of collaborative relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--511 Krisztina Barcza and András Telcs Paretian publication patterns imply Paretian Hirsch index . . . . . . . . . 513--519 Claes Wohlin A new index for the citation curve of researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--533 Jacques Wainer and Eduardo C. Xavier and Fabio Bezerra Scientific production in Computer Science: A comparative study of Brazil and other countries . . . . . . . . . . 535--547 Juan Miguel Campanario Rejecting and resisting Nobel class discoveries: accounts by Nobel Laureates 549--565 Leo Egghe Performance and its relation with productivity in Lotkaian systems . . . . 567--585 Elizabeth S. Vieira and José A. N. F. Gomes A comparison of Scopus and Web of Science for a typical university . . . . 587--600
Hao Qiu and Yi-Feng Chen Bibliometric analysis of biological invasions research during the period of 1991 to 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--610 Michael C. Calver and J. Stuart Bradley Should we use the mean citations per paper to summarise a journal's impact or to rank journals in the same field? . . 611--615 Marek Gagolewski and Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski A geometric approach to the construction of scientific impact indices . . . . . . 617--634 John Panaretos and Chrisovaladis Malesios Assessing scientific research performance and impact with single indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--670 Feng Zou and Mingxing Wu and Kaili Wu Outcomes associated with ophthalmology, optometry and visual science literature in the Science Citation Index from mainland China, 2000--2007 . . . . . . . 671--682 Jiancheng Guan and Nan Ma Structural equation model with PLS path modeling for an integrated system of publicly funded basic research . . . . . 683--698 Imre Mojzes and Zoltán B. Farkas The speed of dissemination of information about the realization of the fourth passive electronic circuit element measured by Google hits . . . . 699--702 Wen-Chi Hung and Ling-Chu Lee and Min-Hua Tsai An international comparison of relative contributions to academic productivity 703--718 Alan L. Porter and Ismael Rafols Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time . . . . . 719--745 Erik Von Elm and Simon Wandel and Peter Jüni The role of correspondence sections in post-publication peer review: A bibliometric study of general and internal medicine journals . . . . . . . 747--755 K. Brad Wray Did professionalization afford better opportunities for young scientists? . . 757--764 María Magdalena Sierra-Flores and María V. Guzmán and Alejandro C. Raga and I. Pérez The productivity of Mexican astronomers in the field of outflows from young stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--777 Miguel A. García-Pérez A multidimensional extension to Hirsch's $h$-index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--785 James Hartley On the need to distinguish between author and journal self-citations . . . 787--788 Martin Reinhart Peer review of grant applications in biology and medicine. Reliability, fairness, and validity . . . . . . . . . 789--809 Hyun Woo Park and Jay Kang Patterns of scientific and technological knowledge flows based on scientific papers and patents . . . . . . . . . . . 811--820 Lin Zhang and Wolfgang Glänzel and Liming Liang Tracing the role of individual journals in a cross-citation network based on different indicators . . . . . . . . . . 821--838 Ping Zhou and Bart Thijs and Wolfgang Glänzel Regional analysis on Chinese scientific output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--857 Juan Miguel Campanario and Antonio Molina Surviving bad times: The role of citations, self-citations and numbers of citable items in recovery of the journal impact factor after at least four years of continuous decreases . . . . . . . . 859--864
Leo Egghe Letter to the editor: On Randi\'c's $H$-sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--797
Ulf Sandström and Martin Hällsten Correction to: Persistent nepotism in peer-review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1865
Jorge E. Hirsch An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output . . . . . . . 16569--16572
John P. A. Ioannidis Concentration of the Most-Cited Papers in the Scientific Literature: Analysis of Journal Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . e5:1--e5:7
José M. Soler A Rational Indicator of Scientific Creativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lokman I. Meho The rise and rise of citation analysis 32--36
Robert Adler and John Ewing and Peter Taylor Citation Statistics: A Report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in Cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) . . . . . 1--14 Peter Gavin Hall Comment: Citation Statistics . . . . . . 25--26 Sune Lehmann and Benny E. Lautrup and Andrew D. Jackson Comment: Citation Statistics . . . . . . 17--20 David Spiegelhalter and Harvey Goldstein Comment: Citation Statistics . . . . . . 21--24