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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
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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

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