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Focus of the conference
The 10th biennial International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics is under the auspices of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and co-chaired by Umeå University, Sweden, and University College, Borås, Sweden.

The most recent ISSI conferences took place Colima, Mexico (1999), Sydney (2001), and Beijing (2003). The objective is to promote and present original research of Scientometric and Informetric nature, including Bibliometrics, Webometric and other quantitative studies of information.

Time and place: Monday 25 to Thursday 28 of July 2005. Karolinska Institute - Stockholm

Conference Themes:
• Dynamics of Scientific Fields - Growth, Diversification, Collaboration
• Interdisciplinarity - Multidisciplinarity
• History of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
• Mathematical Modelling of Informetric Laws
• Citer and Linker Motivation
• Webometrics
• Evaluation of Science Research Performance
• Development of Indicators for Science and Technology, e.g., Impact Factors
• Mapping and Visualisation of Knowledge
• Institutional and National Publication Productivity and Research Cooperation
• Collection Management, e.g. Journal Evaluation and Digital Library Quality Control
• Economic and Social Factors in Information Production and Dissemination
• Science Policy Analysis and Forecasting

Types of contributions accepted to ISSI 2005:
Authors are requested to submit various contributions using the
ISSI 2005 electronic submission form. Valid document formats are: Adobe PDF (pdf), Microsof Word (doc) and Rich Text (rtf). Papers must conform to the ISSI 2005 paper template!

• Full papers - max. 4500 words.
• Research-in-progress papers - max. 2000 words.
• Poster presentations - abstract of max. 2 pages.

All submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted contributions published in the proceedings.
The working language of the conference is English.

Submission of applications for Doctoral Forum participation - go to this page!

Important dates:
• Full paper and Research-in-progress paper submission deadline, 31st January 2005
• Notification of acceptance of paper submissions, 14th March 2005
• Poster submission, deadline, 1st March 2005
• Doctoral Forum application, deadline: 1st March 2005
• Notification of acceptance of posters, 4th April 2005
• Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format, 18th April 2005

Programme Chair: Professor, Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science,
Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S - Denmark. E-mail: pi@db.dk

Poster Chair: Senior scientist, Ed Noyons, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS)
Leiden University, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden - The Netherlands. E-mail: noyons@cwts.nl

Doctoral Forum Chairs:
Associate professor, Rickard Danell, Umeå University, Umeå - Sweden. E-mail: rickard.danell@soc.umu.se
Assistant professor, Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen - Denmark. E-mail: blar@db.dk

Regional Programme Chairs:
Americas: Professor, Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, USA. E-mail: bcronin@indiana.edu
Australia - Pacific: Dr. Concepción Wilson, University of New South Wales, Australia. E-mail: c.wilson@unsw.edu.au
China - Far East: Senior Research fellow, Wu Yishan, ISTIC, China. E-mail: wuyishan@istic.ac.cn
Europe - Africa: Dr. Ronald Rousseau, KHBO, Belgium. E-mail: ronald.rousseau@pandora.be
India - Middle East: Professor, Ravichandra Rao, Indian Statistical Institute, India. E-mail: ikr@isibang.ac.in

Conference Chairs:
Professor Olle Persson, Umeå University, Umeå - Sweden. E-mail: olle.persson@soc.umu.se
Professor Irene Wormell, University College, Borås - Sweden. E-mail: irene.wormell@hb.se