1. Loet Leydesdorff wins the 2003 Derek John de Solla Price Medal

   • Loet Leydesdorff

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2. Loet Leydesdorff: Recipient of the 2003 Derek de Solla Price Award

   • Ronald Rousseau

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3. Preface

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4. Growth dynamics of German university enrolments and of scientific disciplines in the 19th century: Scaling behaviour under weak competitive pressure

   • Frank Havemann
   • Michael Heinz
   • Roland Wagner-Döbler

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5. In basic science the percentage of “authoritative” references decreases as bibliographies become shorter

   • Henk F. Moed
   • Eugene Garfield

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6. Why authors think their papers are highly cited

   • Henry Small

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7. Measuring the citation impact of research journals in clinical neurology: A structural equation modelling analysis

   • Weiping Yue
   • Concepción S. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 332

8. Citation Database for Japanese Papers: A new bibliometric tool for Japanese academic society

   • Masamitsu Negishi
   • Yuan Sun
   • Kunihiro Shigi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 351

9. The US-EU race for leadership of science and technology: Qualitative and quantitative indicators

   • Robert D. Shelton
   • Geoffrey M. Holdridge

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10. Research in non-metropolitan universitiesas a new stage of science development in Russia

    • Valentina A. Markusova
    • Vladimir A. Minin
    • Elise Bassecoulard-Zitt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 383

11. China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations (CSTPC): History, impact and outlook

    • Yishan Wu
    • Yuntao Pan
    • Zhiqing Yang

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12. Does collaborative research have greater epistemic authority?

    • Donald deB. Beaver

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13. Author productivity and geodesic distance in bibliographic co-authorship networks, and visibility on the Web

    • Hildrun Kretschmer

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14. Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies

    • Olle Persson
    • Wolfgang Glänzel
    • Rickard Danell

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15. Comparative analysis of coauthorship networks of different domains: The growth and change of networks

    • Fuyuki Yoshikane
    • Kyo Kageura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 446

16. New classification quality estimators for analysis of documentary information: Application to patent analysis and web mapping

    • Jean-Charles Lamirel
    • Claire Francois
    • Martial Hoffmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 562

17. An analysis of backlink counts and Web Impact Factorsfor Chinese university websites

    • Junping Qiu
    • Jingquan Chen
    • Zhi Wang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 473

18. Patterns of national and international Web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations

    • Rong Tang
    • Mike Thelwall

    OriginalPaper Pages: 475 - 485

19. Links to commercial websites as a source of business information

    • Liwen Vaughan
    • Guozhu Wu

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20. Positive reinforcement and 3-dimensional informetrics

    • Leo Egghe

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21. Towards a model for diachronous and synchronous citation analyses

    • Wolfgang Glänzel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 511 - 522

22. The multivariate Waring distribution and its application

    • Shi Shan
    • Guohua Jiang
    • Lan Jiang

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