1. Instead of a preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: 137 - 137

2. Derek John de Solla Price memorial award

   Announcement Pages: 139 - 139

3. Eugene Garfield wins the 1984 Derek John de Solla Price award

   Announcement Pages: 141 - 141

4. Address at the presentation of the first Derek de Solla Price award to Eugene Garfield on December 20, 1984

   • M. J. Moravcsik

   EditorialNotes Pages: 143 - 144

5. Obsolescence or immediacy? Evidence supporting Price's hypothesis

   • J. Marton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 153

6. Scientometric indicators for evaluating medical research output of mid-size countries

   • A. Schubert
   • S. Zsindely
   • T. Braun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 163

7. Applied scientometrics: An assessment methodology for developing countries

   • M. J. Moravcsik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 176

8. Periodical literature of information science as reflected in Referativnyj Zhurnal, section 59, informatika

   • Barbara Stefaniak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 194

9. Distribution of physics literature

   • R. Todorov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 209

10. Price distribution. An exact formulation of Price's “square root law”

    • W. Glänzel
    • A. Schubert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 219

11. Beyond invisible colleges: Inspirations and aspirations of post-1972 social studies of science

    • D. E. Chubin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 254

12. The effects of the mentor on the academic career

    • J. S. Long
    • R. McGinnis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 280

13. Evaluating big science: CERN's past performance and future prospects

    • J. Irvine
    • B. R. Martin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 308

14. Comparative analysis and estimation of competence of research units

    • G. M. Dobrov
    • V. E. Tonkal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 325

15. On maps for discovery: Did the periodic table guide elemental discovery?

    • M. Kochen
    • J. Lansing

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 339

16. Displaying strengths and weaknesses in national R&D performance through document cocitation

    • C. Mombers
    • A. Van Heeringen
    • C. Le Pair

    OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 355

17. Invisible colleges as science elites

    • N. C. Mullins

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 368

18. Is technology becoming science?

    • F. Narin
    • E. Noma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 369 - 381

19. Citation patterns of highly cited papers and their relationship to literature aging: A study of the working literature

    • Elizabeth Smith Aversa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 389

20. Clustering thescience citation index ^® using co-citations

    • H. Small
    • E. Sweeney

    OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 409

21. The aging of the literature of biomedical sciences in developed and developing countries

    • H. T. Christovão

    OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 430

22. Using the archive: Derek Price's theory of differences among the sciences

    • Susan E. Cozzens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 441

23. Little science, big science revisited

    • S. Cole
    • G. S. Meyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 458

24. Stable non-Gaussian distributions in scientometrics

    • A. I. Yablonsky

    OriginalPaper Pages: 459 - 470

25. Journal ranking by selective impact. New method based on SDI results and journal impact factors

    • M. Bonitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 485

26. In tribute to Derek John de Solla Price: a citation analysis of little science, big sicence

    • E. Garfield

    OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 503

27. Citation histories of scientific publications. The data sources

    • J. Vlachý

    OriginalPaper Pages: 505 - 528

28. Growth of scientific literature and the Barnaby Rich effect

    • T. Braun
    • S. Zsindely

    Short Communication Pages: 529 - 530