1. Vasilij Vasilevich Nalimov whins the 1987 Derek John de Solla Price award

   Announcement Pages: 5 - 5

2. Comments on V. V. Nalimov recipient of the 1987 Derek de Solla Price award

   • Yu V. Granovsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 12

3. The newest version of the facts and figures on publication output and relative citation impact. A collection of relational charts, 1981–1985

   • T. Braun
   • W. Glänzel
   • A. Schubert

   World Flash on Basic Research Pages: 13 - 20

4. Fuzzy expertise and its application to R & D management

   • G. Dobrov
   • A. Skofenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 31

5. Scientometrics, theory of experiment and optimization of research

   • Yu V. Granovsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 43

6. Science studies and natural sciences: Which is primary, distribution or interdependence between variables?

   • S. D. Haitun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 58

7. Information co-modelling of a network of research institutions

   • A. A. Korennoi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 71

8. Scientometric analysis of a scientific school

   • L. Malciené

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 85

9. About statistics of the extreme values and the rank form of scientometric distributions

   • O. I. Mokhov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 96

10. The main problems of studying literature aging

    • V. M. Motylev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 109

11. Possible treatment of the Bonitz-Gross effect

    • S. V. Orlov
    • A. N. Vasiljev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 126

12. Cluster analysis of bibliographic references as a scientometric method

    • J. T. Sharabchiev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 137

13. Quantitative studies of science A bibliography of soviet publications

    • S. I. Doroshenko
    • S. D. Haitun

    Bibliography Section Pages: 139 - 154

14. Book Reviews

    • V. Kostyuk
    • J. Schreider

    BookReview Pages: 155 - 157

15. News

    • J. Farkas

    News Pages: 159 - 163