ISSI 2013 - 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference 2013

The ISSI 2013 Conference will provide an international open forum for scientists, research managers, authorities as well as information professionals to debate the current status and advancements of informetric and scientometric theories and their deployment. Apart from the typical evaluative focus this conference will also discuss practical applications in related fields such as Library and Information Science, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, etc.
The conference is organized under the auspices of ISSI ? the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (http://www.issi-society.info/). The conference language is English.
Previous Conferences
ISSI meets regularly bi-annually. Previous ISSI conferences took place in Belgium (1987), Canada (1989), India (1991), Germany (1993), USA (1995), Israel (1997), Mexico (1999), Australia (2001), China (2003), Sweden (2005), Spain (2007) and Brazil (2009), South Africa (2011).
Conference themes:
Topic 1 Scientometrics Indicators:
- Criticism and new developments
- Their disciplinary relevance: Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities
Topic 2 Old and new of data sources for scientometric studies: coverage, accuracy and reliability
Topic 3 Citation and co-citation analysis
Topic 4 Science Policy and Research Evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches
Topic 5 Measuring Innovation and Emergence incl. Patent Analysis
Topic 6 Collaboration studies
Topic 7 Webometrics
Topic 8 Visualisation and Science Mapping: tools, methods and applications
Topic 9 Management and measurement of bibliometric data within scientific organizations
Topic 10 Open Access and Scientometrics
Topic 11 Scientometrics in the History of Science
Topic 12 Sociological and philosophical issues and applications
Topic 13 Bibliometrics in Library and Information Science