1. Editorial Announcement

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 3

2. Editorial Foreword

   • Tibor Braun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 9

3. Guest Editorial

   • Katherine W. McCain
   • William E. Snizek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 18

4. Self-emancipation proclamation and a light-hearted but nevertheless deeply-felt exception

   • Manfred Bonitz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 24

5. The Matthew Effect of the Annual Reviews series and the flow of scientific communication through the World Wide Web

   • Cecelia Brown

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 30

6. Robert K. Merton, 1910–2003

   • Jonathan R. Cole

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 40

7. Normative shaping of scientific practice: The magic of Merton

   • Blaise Cronin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 46

8. R. K. Merton — Life time of influence

   • Mary Frank Fox

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 50

9. The intended consequences of Robert K. Merton

   • Eugene Garfield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 61

10. What is Mertonian sociology of science?

    • Lowell L. Hargens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

11. On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation

    • Henry Small

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 79

12. Robert K. Merton's perspective on priority and the provision of the public good knowledge

    • Paula E. Stephan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 87

13. Robert K. Merton: Memorial

    • Stephen M. Stigler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 92

14. Reward, persuasion, and the Sokal Hoax: A study in citation identities

    • Howard D. White

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 120