Informetrics 87/88 and Informetrics 89/90,

are the proceedings of the first and second international conferences on   bibliometrics - scientometrics - informetrics, which later became the ISSI conferences.

All these articles are now freely available via UHasselt's repository.

     Note that Informetrics 87/88 contains photos of a number of pioneers in the field such as Bertie Brookes, Michael Moravcsik, Jean Tague, Gerald Salton, Belver Griffith and Ferdinand Leimkuhler.

  Contents of Informetrics 87/88

L. Van Poucke; Welcome and opening address

A. Bookstein. Applications of the bibliometric distributions.

R.R.Braam, H.F.Moed and A.F.J. Van Raan. Mapping of science: critical elaboration and new approaches,  a case study in agricultural biochemistry.

B.C.Brookes. Comments on the scope of bibliometrics.

Q.L.Burrell. Predictive aspects of some bibliometric processes.

L.Egghe. The Fussler sampling technique for populations with a discrete or a continuous distribution of thicknesses.

W. Glänzel and A. Schubert. Theoretical and empirical studies of the tails of scientometric distributions.

B.C.Griffith. Exact fits in bibliometrics: some tools and results.

F.F.Leimkuhler. On bibliometric modeling.

L.Leydesdorff and R.Zaal. Co-words and citations relations between document sets and environments.

W.E. McGrath. Parameters for cluster analysis of library overlap.

H.F. Moed. The use of on-line databases for bibliometric analysis.

M.J. Moravcsik. The coverage of science in the third world: the "Philadelphia program".

H. Nakamoto. Synchronous and diachronous citation distributions.

B.C. Peritz. Bibliometric literature: a quantitative analysis.

H.P.F. Peters, D. Hartmann and A.F.J. Van Raan. Monitoring advances in chemical engineering.

J. Pomian. Réformulation des questions dans l'interrogation des bases des données bibliographiques: Système LEXIQUEST.

T. Radecki. Exploiting the probability ranking principle to increase the effectiveness of conventional boolean retrieval systems.

V.V. Raghavan. Deterministic strategies for query (re)formulation in information retrieval.

I.K. Ravichandra Rao. Probability distributions and inequality measures for analyses of circulation data.

R. Rousseau. Citation distribution of pure mathematics journals.

G. Salton. On the relationship between theoretical retrieval models.

J. Tague. What's the use of bibliometrics?

R.J.W. Tijssen, J. de Leeuw and A.F.J. Van Raan. A method for mapping bibliometric relations based on field-classifications and citations of articles.

A.F.J. Van Raan. Impact of research performance as measured by citations: a new model.

M. Yitzhaki. The language barrier in the humanities: measures of language self-citation and self-derivation - The case of biblical studies.

List of participants - index

Contents of Informetrics 89/90

I. Ajiferuke and J. Tague. A model for the full circulation data.

A. Bookstein, E. O'Neill, M. Dillon and D. Stephens. Loglinear model of library acquisitions.

B.C. Brookes. Biblio-, sciento-, infor-metrics??? What are we talking about?

T.A. Brooks. Perfect Bradford multipliers: a definition and empirical investigation.

Q.L. Burrell. Empirical prediction of library circulations based on negative binomial processes.

R.E. de Bruin and H.F. Moed. The unification of addresses in scientific publications.

L. Egghe. New Bradfordian laws equivalent with old Lotka laws, evolving from a source-item duality argument.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Elements of concentration theory.

W. Glänzel and A. Schubert. The cumulative advantage function. A mathematical formulation based on conditional expectations and its application to scientometric distributions.

S.D. Haitun. Criteria of Gaussian/non-Gaussian nature of distributions and populations.

D.H. Hall. Growth and citation selection rates in rapidly growing sciences from date stacking and bibliographic databases.

H. Kretschmer. Social stratification of authors revealed from the coauthorship network.

A.E. Little, R.M. harris and P.T. Nicholls. Text to reference ratios in scientific journals.

C.A. Macias-Chapula. Production and dissemination of the Mexican biomedical journals, with some considerations of the Latin American/Caribbean region.

M.L. Pao and W. Goffman. Quality assessment of schistosomiasis literature.

B.C. Peritz. A citation analysis of clinical trials; are definitive studies less cited than others?

I.K.R. Rao. Journal productivity in economics.

A.N. Tabah and A.J. Saber. Chaotic structures in informetrics.

R. Todorov. Representing Canadian geophysics: a bibliometric approach.

P. Vinkler. Bibliometric analysis of publication activity of a scientific research institute.

F.L. Wilson and W.E. McGrath. Cluster analysis of title overlap in twenty-one library collections in Western New York.

D. Wolfram, C.M. Chu and Xin Lu. Growth of knowledge: bibliometric analysis using online database data.

M. Yitzhaki and D. Ben-Tamar. Multiple authorship in biochemistry and other fields; a case study of the Journal of Biological Chemistry throughout 1905-1988.

List of participants - index