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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth International Conference on Scientometrics and
Informetrics will be held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
from June 16-19, 1997. It is sponsored by the Israel Academy of
Sciences & Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
This is the sixth in a series of increasingly successful
biennial conferences. The previous conferences were held at the
Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium; at the
University of Western Ontario, Canada; at the Indian Statistical
Institute, Bangalore, India; at the Association for Science
Studies, Berlin, Germany, and Rosary College, River Forest,
Illinois, USA.
Scope
The scope can be broadly defined as those topics which treat
in quantitative fashion the creation, flow, dissemination, and
use of scholarly or substantive information.
Representative topics are: informetric "laws" and
distributions; mathematical models of communication; citation
analyses; theory of document, text, and information retrieval;
information and productivity; the quantitative sociology of
science and of other substantive information-based activities;
study of aging and dispersion of scientific literature; evalua-
tion of databases; interdisciplinary connections; application of
informetrics to file design, data compression; informetric
applications to policy analysis, R & D management.
Location
The conference will be hosted by the School of Library,
Archives and Information Studies of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. It will be held at the Hebrew University and at the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Jerusalem is warm but pleasant in June. The conference venue
is situated in two of the most attractive parts of town.
Ben-Gurion International Airport is a 35 minute drive from
Jerusalem.
We look forward to seeing you all in Jerusalem in June 1997.
Please submit general information requests to the conference
organizer and to the corresponding Chairman of the Regional
Technical Programme Committee.
Conference Organizer Program Chairman
Professor Bluma C. Peritz, Professor Leo Egghe
Director Limburgs Universitair
School of Library, Archives Centrum
and Information Studies Universitaire Campus
Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus. Gebonw
P.O. Box 1225 Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL 3590 Diepenbeek, BELGIUM
Fax: 972-2-6585707 Phone: 32 11 268121
Phone: 972-2-6585044; 6585045 Fax: 32 11 268126
Deadline for submission of papers: 15 November, 1996
Please submit full papers or questions about papers to
appropriate regional committee chairs. Papers should not exceed
10 pages.
Regional Technical Program Committee Chairs
The Americas, Africa Europe
(and otherwise unclassified)
Professor Abraham Bookstein Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel
Regenstein Library ISSRU, P.O. Box 7
1100 East 57th Street H-1361 Budapest
Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A. HUNGARY
Phone: (312) 702-8268 Fax: 36-1-1316954
Fax: (312) 702-0775 E-mail: H4324gla@ella.hu
email
Internet: a-bookstein@uchicago.edu Asia
Bitnet: bkst%tira.uchimvsl
Professor I K Ravichandra Rao
Professor Michael Koenig Indian Statistical Institute
Graduate School of Library and 8th Mile, Mysore Road
Information Science R.V. College P.O.
Rosary College Bangalore 560 059, INDIA
River Forest, Illinois 60305 U.S.A. Phone: 8600-648, 8430-975
Phone: (708) 524-6849 Fax. : 8430-265
Fax: (708) 524-6657 or (708) 366-5360 E-mail: drtc@isibang.ac.in
E-mail: roskoenigm@crf.cuis.edu ikr@isibang.ac.in
Please advertise the Conference among your colleagues.
Information on the Conference can be found on the WWW page:
URL http://shum.hu
ji.ac.il/~bluer/ISSI
REQUEST FORM FOR INFORMATION
Please return information request form to the Conference
Organizer as well as to the appropriate Regional Technical
Programme Committee Chair
Please send me further information
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* I am interested in this conference.
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SEND THE REQUEST FORM TO BOTH THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZER AND TO THE
RESPECTIVE REGIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING PAPER, KINDLY SEND THREE COPIES TO THE
REGIONAL CHAIR.
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