The 11th biennial International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2007) http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/ 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). Time and place: Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 of June 2007, at the CSIC Serrano Campus in Madrid, Spain 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 Types of contributions accepted to ISSI 2007: Full papers, research-in-progress papers and posters are accepted for this conference. Research-in-progress papers are meant to cover on-going research and the authors must make clear the significance of their study and which the research questions to be addressed are. Authors are requested to submit their contributions using the ISSI 2007 electronic submission form: http://www.softconf.com/start/ISSI2007/ Valid document formats are: Microsoft Word (doc) and Rich Text Format (rtf). • Full papers - max. 4500 words. • Research-in-progress papers - max. 2000 words • Poster presentations - abstract of max. 2 pages. Papers must conform to the ISSI 2007 submission template. All submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of the conference. The working language of the conference is English. Important dates: • Full paper and research-in-progress paper submission, deadline: 30 November 2006 • Notification of acceptance of paper submissions: 31 January 2007 • Poster submission, deadline: 1 February 2007 • Doctoral Forum application, deadline: 1 February 2007 • Notification of acceptance of posters: 28 February 2007 • Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format: 28 February 2007 Proposals for organising satellite workshops on relevant topics not well addressed at the main conference can be submitted before 30 November 2006 to the satellite workshops chair and/or programme chair. Programme Chair: Dr. Henk F. Moed, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: moed@cwts.leidenuniv.nl Conference Chairs: Prof. Isabel Gómez, igomez@cindoc.csic.es CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain Dr. María Bordons mbordons@cindoc.csic.es CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain Isidro Aguillo isidro@cindoc.csic.es, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Poster Chair: Dr. Ed Noyons, Centre for Science and 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. Katherine McCain, 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 Please, circulate this Call among colleagues. -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro@cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Research Group CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN http://www.webometrics.info http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es ****************************************