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Welcome to ISSI 2007 - Madrid!

We are happy to invite you to the 11^th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, which will be held on June 25-27, 2007 at the Serrano Central Campus of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. This is a major event with participants from all over the World in our field.

11^th ISSI Conference, Madrid, Spain
25-27 June 2007

The 11^th biennial International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics is organised by the Centre for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in cooperation with several Information Science Departments of Spanish universities and under the auspices of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).

Previous ISSI conferences took place in Belgium (1987), Canada (1989), India (1991), Germany (1993), USA (1995), Israel (1997), Mexico (1999), Australia (2001), China (2003) and Sweden (2005).

The proposed research topics for this edition include among others:

• Dynamics of scientific fields. Growth and diversification
• Mapping and visualisation of knowledge
• Interdisciplinarity. Multidisciplinarity
• History of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
• Mathematical modelling of informetric laws
• Citation and web link analysis
• Webometrics
• Collaboration in research (individual, institutional, regional, international)
• Evaluation of research performance: macro, meso and micro-levels
• Institutional and national publication productivity
• Development and comparative analyses of new indicators for Science and Technology
• Patent indicators
• Science policy analysis and forecasting
• Economic and social factors in information production and dissemination
• Scientometric impact of the Open Access initiatives
• New bibliometric indicators applied to digital libraries and e-journals
• Communication practices and performance assessment in Social Sciences and Humanities
• Effects of the use of bibliometric indicators upon scientists, journal publishers and editors

The working language of the conference will be English.

Programme Chair:
Dr. Henk Moed, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS)
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: moed@cwts.leidenuniv.nl

Conference Chairs:
Professor Isabel Gómez, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: igomez@cindoc.csic.es
Dr. María Bordons, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: mbordons@cindoc.csic.es
Mr. Isidro F. Aguillo, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. E-mail: isidro@cindoc.csic.es

Poster Chair:
Dr. Ed Noyons, Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS)
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: noyons@cwts.nl

Satellite Workshops Chair:
Prof. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: pi@db.dk

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

Regional Programme Chairs:
North America: Dr. Kate MacCain, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. E-mail: kate.mccain@ischool.drexel.edu
Latin America: Dr. Jane Russell, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. Mexico. E-mail:jrussell@servidor.unam.mx
Australia - Pacific: Dr. Linda Butler. The Australian National University. Canberra ACT , Australia. E-mail: linda.butler@anu.edu.au
China - Far East: Dr. Liang Liming. Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China. E-mail: pllm@public.xxptt.ha.cn
Europe - Africa: Prof. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: pi@db.dk
India - Middle East: Prof. Ravichandra Rao, Indian Statistical Institute, India. E-mail: ikr@isibang.ac.in

Local Committee:
Dr. M. Teresa Fernández, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Evaristo Jiménez Contreras, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Dr. Fernanda Morillo, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Luis Plaza, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Adelaida Román, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Rosa Sancho, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Elías Sanz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Dr. M. Angeles Zulueta, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcala de Henares, Spain

International Scientific Commitee:

Isidro Aguillo	Isabel Gomez	Olle Persson
Dag Aksnes	Sybille Hinze	Ravichandra Rao
Subbiah Arunachalam	Peter Ingwersen	Ed Rinia
Judit Bar-Ilan	Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras	Ronald Rousseau
Elise Bassecoulard	Hildrun Kretschmer	Ian Rowlands
Aparna Basu	Birger Larsen	Jane Russell
Sujit Bhattacharya	Grit Laudel	Elias Sanz
Lennart Björneborn	Grant Lewison	Jesper Schneider
Manfred Bonitz	Liang Liming	Henry Small
Maria Bordons	Terttu Luukkonen	Alastair Smith
Kevin Boyack	Cesar Macías-Chapula	Mike Thelwall
Tibor Braun	Valentina Markusova	Robert Tijssen
Quentin Burrell	Katherine McCain	Thed Van Leeuwen
Linda Butler	Martin Meyer	Liwen Vaughan
Chaomei Chen	Henk Moed	Peter Vinkler
Heting Chu	Steven Morris	Mei-Mei Wu
Blaise Cronin	Ylle Must	Wu Yishan
Rickard Danell	Michael Nelson	Michel Zitt
Leo Egghe	Ed Noyons	Alesia Zuccala
Wolfgang Glänzel	Dennis Ocholla

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