International collaboration in science: Participation by the Asian giants S. ArunachalamR. SrinivasanV. Raman OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 22
The application of scientometric tools to the analysis of a sector in plant biotechnologies: Nitrogen fixation Marie-Angèle de Looze OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 34
A stochastic model for the ageing of scientific literature W. GlänzelU. Schoepflin OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64
A bibliotheconomic analysis of the impact factors of scientific disciplines G. Van HooydonkR. GevaertK. Debackere OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 81
Towards a demographic approach to scientific journals P. JeanninJ. Devillard OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 95
Non-SCI subject visibility of the Latin American scientific production in the health field C. A. Macias-Chapula OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 104
Scientometric indicators for identification of technology system life cycle phase O. MakovetskayaV. Bernadsky OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 116
Quantitative analysis of thematic structures in the field of biotechnology: A study on the basis of conference data B. MartensT. Saretzki OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 128
Shannon's entropy as a measure of the “life” of the literature of a discipline E. Matricciani OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 145
Bibliometric cartography of scientific and technological developments of an R & D field E. C. M. NoyonsA. F. J. van Raan OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 173
On the heuristic value of scientific publications and their design; A citation analysis of some clinical trials Bluma C. Peritz OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 186
Searching for adverse drug reactions at the margin of scientific fields Floor RikkenR. Vos OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 199
The Spanish transition to democracy seen through the Spanish database isoc Adelaida RománAida Méndez OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 211
Studying leadership and subdisciplinary structure of scientific disciplines T. SöderqvistA. M. Silverstein OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 258
Modelling and forecasting contact time as a measure of item informativeness Jean Tague-Sutcliffe OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 267
Geode: Optimizing data flow representation techniques in a network information system W. A. TurnerA. LeluA. Georgel OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 281
The origin and features of information referenced in pharmaceutical patents P. Vinkler OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 302
Regularity and irregularity in the development of scientific disciplines: The case of mathematical logic R. Wagner-DöblerJ. Berg OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 319
Relation of title length of journal articles to number of authors M. Yitzhaki OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 332
Development of a method for detection and trend analysis of research fronts built by lexical or cocitation analysis M. ZittE. Bassecoulard OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 351
Coauthorship networks of invisible colleges and institutionalized communities Hildrun Kretschmer Short Communications Pages: 363 - 369