11:00 - 12:30 PM

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Session 1 - Indicator Development 
Chair: Paul Wouters (The Netherlands)

Robert Tijssen, Martijn Visser & Thed N. van Leeuwen (The Netherlands) 'Searching For Scientific Excellence: scientometric measurements and citation analyses of national research systems'

Bihui Jin (China) 'Development of the Chinese Scientometric Indicators (CSI)'

Kevin Bryant & Luciano Lombardo (Australia) 'Broad-level Indicators for National Systems of Science and Innovation: a new approach'

Isidro F. Aguillo (Spain) 'Building Cybermetric Indicators for Describing EU R&D Public Sector'

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Session 2 - Process of Scientific Communication
Chair: Blaise Cronin (USA)

Elise Bassecoulard, Suzy Ramanana & Michel Zitt (France) 'Scientific Communication: two aspects of globalisation at the journal level'

Jochen Gläser (Germany) 'Scientific Specialties as the (Currently Missing) Link between Scientometrics and the Sociology of Science'

Ana María Ramírez Romero, E.O. García Mandujano, H.D. Cortéz Gonzáles & J.S. del Rio (Mexico) 'An Approach to Quantitatively Evaluating the Relevance of Articles in Multidisciplinary Institutions'

Ed J. Rinia, Thed N. van Leeuwen & A.F.J. van Raan (The Netherlands) 'Measuring Knowledge Transfer between Fields of Science'

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Session 3 - Informetrics & Information Retrieval
Chair: Elise Bassecoulard (France)

Birger Larsen & Peter Ingwersen (Denmark) 'Synchronous and Diachronous Citation Analysis for Information Retrieval: generating a boomerang effect from the network of scientific papers'

Michael Nelson (Canada) & J. Stephen Downie (USA) 'Informetric Analysis of a Music Database: distributions of intervals'

William W. Hood & Concepción S. Wilson (Australia) 'Distribution of Phrases in the Fuzzy Set Literature in the Period 1965-1993'

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Session 4 - National Research Output I
Chair: I.K. Ravichandra Rao (India)

K.C. Garg (India) 'Scientometrics of Laser Research in India and China'

Shaoyi He (USA) 'Characteristics and Trends of Foreign Authorship in LIS Journals: a bibliometric analysis of JASIS and Journal of Documentation'

Dhruv Raina & B.M. Gupta (India) 'From Geomagnetism to Solar and Stellar Magnetism: a comparative scientometric study of two subdisciplines in India (1850-1980)

S. Ravi (India) 'Growth and Collaboration Trends in Nuclear Science Research Literature: a case study of India, 1980-1994'

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Session 5 -  Issues of Disciplinarity & Interdisciplinarity
Chair: Ed Noyons (The Netherlands)

Peter van den Besselaar & Gaston Heimeriks (The Netherlands) ‘Disciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary: concepts and indicators’

Bluma C. Peritz & Judit Bar-Ilan (Israel) 'The Inside-Outside Looking of the Field of Bibliometrics-Scientometrics as Reflected in References'

Yuko Fujigaki (Japan) ‘Analysis on Dynamics of Development in Research Themes in Interdisciplinary Fields: analysis using personal distribution versus papers’

S. Sarasvady & P. Pichappan (India) ‘Classification of Multidisciplinary Journals: the study of the journal Nature’

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Session 6 - Visualisations I
Chair: Peter Ingwersen (Demark)

Ed Noyons & Renald Buter (The Netherlands) 'Using an Interactive Clustering Tool to Enhance Science Mapping'

P.S. Nagpaul (India) 'Visualizing the Cooperation Networks of Elite Institutions in India'

Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich (Russia) 'Bibliometric Maps of Science'

M. Mymoon & K.S. Raghavan (India) 'Mapping Biotechnology Research Using Co-classification Analysis'

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Session 7 - Modeling of Informetric Distributions
Chair: Michel Zitt (France)

Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau (Belgium) 'The Core of a Scientific Subject: an exact definition using concentration and fuzzy sets'

Guohua Jiang, Shi Shan & Xuesong Xu (China) 'A New Rank-size Distribution of Zipf's Law and Its Applications'

Thierry Lafouge (France) 'A Mathematical Model of Documents Circulation: use distribution, utility distribution, content distribution: example of scientific articles circulation in journals'

Anurag Saxena, B.M. Gupta & M. Jauhari (India) 'Forecasting Growth of Literature: all models are wrong, some are useful!'

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Session 8 - Citation Analysis I
Chair: Michael Koenig (USA)

Blaise Cronin & Deborah Shaw (USA) 'Identity-creators and Image-makers: using citation analysis and thick description to put authors in their place'

Chiladda Chennawasin & Chaomei Chen (UK) 'An Integrated Approach to Author Co-citation Analysis'

P. Pichappan & S. Sarasvady (India) 'Other Side of the Coin: the intricacies of author self-citations'

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Session 9 - Collaboration
Chair: Jane Russell (Mexico)

Wolfgang Glänzel (Germany/Hungary) & Cornelius De Lange (The Netherlands) 'A Distributional Approach to Multinationality Measures of International Scientific Collaboration'

Grant Lewison (UK) & Ülle Must (Estonia) 'Estonian International Co-operation in Science in the 1990s: new politics, new methods'

Liming Liang, Yongzheng Guo (China) & Mari Davis (Australia) 'How do Scientists of Different Ages Collaborate in China: the case of computer science and control theory'

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Session 10 - Analysis of Patents
Chair: Sybille Hinze (Germany)

Jean-Charles Lamirel, Yannick Toussaint, Claire Francois & Xavier Polanco (France) 'Using Artificial Neural Networks for Mapping of Science and Technology: application to patents analysis'

Éric Archambault (Canada) 'Methods for Using Patents in Cross-Country Comparisons'

Arnold Verbeek, Koenraad Debackere, Marc Luwel, Bart van Looy, Petra Andries, Marc van Hulle & Filip Deleus (Belgium) 'Linking Science to Technology: using bibliographic references in patents to build linkage  schemes'

Shyama V. Ramani & Marie-Angèle De Looze (France) 'Using Patent Statistics as Competition Indicators in the Biotechnology Sectors: an application to France, Germany and the UK'

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Session 11 - Citation Analysis II
Chair: Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany)

I.K. Ravichandra Rao (India) 'An Analysis of Distributions of First Citation Data'

Shalini Urs & K.C. Raghavan (India) 'Private Choices and Public links: toward a cognitive theory of citation

Diana Reader (UK) 'The Intellectual Structure of Entrepreneurship: an author co-citation analysis'

Peter Vinkler (Hungary) 'The Dynamic Change of the Chance for Citedness'

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Session 12 - Visualisation II
Chair: Linda Butler (Australia)

Hervé Rostaing, V. Léveillé & Badia Yacine (France) 'Bibliometric Study as an Objective Picture of the Algerian Scientific Research Practices'

Gilberto Sotolongo-Anguilar, M. Guzmán-Sánchez, O. Saavedra-Fernández & H. Carillo-Calvet (Cuba) 'Mining Informetric Data with Self-Organizing Maps

C. Widhalm, U. Gigler, A. Kops & E. Schiebel (Austria) 'Co-occurrence and Knowledge Mapping to Identify Hot Topics and Key Players in the Fields Mobility and Transport'

Borsheng Tsai (USA) 'Information Mapping, Charting and Visualization for Total Quality Knowledge Management: constructing and assessing a web-coordinated experts map-chart / depository / query-report system through citation data mining and information landscaping'

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Session 13 - Informetrics for Policy - Global Contexts
Chair: Leo Egghe (Belgium)

Grant Lewison (UK) 'The Determinants of High Quality Biomedical Research'

Valentina Markusova, V. Minin, A.N. Libkind, M.V. Arapov (Russia), M. Jancz & R. Tijssen (The Netherlands) 'Russian Science in Transition: the effects of new granting systems on research activity and output'

Thomas  E. Nisonger (USA) 'Does International Composition on a Journal's Editorial Board Correlate with Better Quality? A citation study of political science, business and genetics journals'

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Session 14 - Informetrics of Health & Medicine I
Chair: César Macías-Chapula (Mexico)

Subbiah Arunachalam & S. Gunarsekaran (India) 'Cardiovascular Diseases Research in India and China in the 1990s'

Sri Hartinah (Indonesia), Mari Davis (Australia), A. Hydari (Indonesia) & Philip Kent (Australia) 'Indonesian Nutrition Research Papers 1979-2000: a bibliometric analysis'

A. Amudhavalli & G. Krishnamoorthy (India) 'Medical Research and Development Output in India'

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Session 15 - Informetrics of Health & Medicine II
Chair: Stephen Lawani (Nigeria)

Peter Ingwersen (Demark) 'Visibility and Impact of Research in Psychiatry for North European Countries in EU, US and World Contexts'

César Macías-Chapula & A. Mijango-Nolasco (Mexico) 'Bibliometric Analysis of AIDS Literature in Central Africa'

Peter Whan (Australia) 'Where to Look for Evidence about Palliative, Symptomatic and Supportive Care: a journey through bibliographic space and time'

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Session 16 - Informetrics of Science & Technology
Chair: Peter Vinkler (Hungary)

Santanu Roy & P.S. Nagpaul (India) 'A Quantitative Evaluation of Relative Efficiencies of Research and Development Laboratories: a data envelopment analysis approach'

Sybille Hinze (Germany) 'Research under Microgravity Conditions - its past and its future'

Dangzhi Zhao & Elisabeth Logan (USA) 'Citation Analysis of Scientific Publications on the Web: a case study on the research area of XML'

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Session 17 - National Research Outputs II
Chair: Bluma C. Peritz (Israel)

Michel Zitt, S. Ramanana & Elise Bassecoulard (France) 'On Journal Sets and countries Benchmarking: some thoughts on robustness of SCI'

Farideh Osareh (Iran) & Concepción S. Wilson (Australia) 'Iranian Scientific Publications: collaboration, growth and development from 1985 - 1999'

Dag Aksnes & G. Sivertsen (Norway) 'The Effect of Highly Cited Papers on National Citation Indicators'

Nirmal Haritash & B.M. Gupta (India) 'Mapping of S&T Issues in Indian Parliament: a scientometric analysis of questions raised in both The Houses of Parliament'

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Session 18 - Informetrics for Policy - National Contexts
Chair: Archie Dick (South Africa)

Linda Butler (Australia) 'What is behind Australia's Increased Share of ISI Publications?'

Nora Narvaez-Berthelemot, Jane Russell (Mexico), R. Arvantis, R. Waast & J. Gaillard (France) 'Science in Africa: an overview of mainstream scientific output'

Daisy Jacobs (South Africa) 'A Bibliometric Study of the Publication patterns of Scientists in South Africa 1992-96, with Special Reference to Gender Difference'

Judith Licea de Arenas, J. Valles & J. Arenas-Licea (Mexico) 'Women Pioneers of Mexican Health Sciences Research'

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Session 19 - Author-Related Informetrics
Chair: Liming Liang (China)

Fujuki Yoshikane (Japan) 'Comparative Analysis of Author Productivity of Different Domains: in consideration of the effect of sample size dependency of the statistical measures'

Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany) 'Distribution of Co-Author Couples in Journals: "continuation" of Lotka's Law on the 3rd Dimension'

C.R. Karisidappa & B.M. Gupta (India) 'A Study of Scientific Productivity of Authors in Theoretical Population Genetics'

Grit Laudel (Germany) 'What do we Measure by Co-authorships?'

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Session 20 - Analysis of Words & Phrases
Chair: Concepción S. Wilson (Australia)

Ronald Rousseau (Belgium) "Evolution in Time of the Number of Hits in Keyword Searches on Internet During One Year, with Special Attention to the Use of the Word Euro'

Aparna Basu (India) & Grant Lewison (UK) 'Evaluation of Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Output Using a Title-word Search in Place of Journal Classification'

Moshe Yitzhaki (Israel) 'Relation of Title Length of Journal Article to Length of Article'