and
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Jerusalem
This was the sixth in a series of increasingly successful biennial conferences. The previous conferences were held at the Limburgs Universitair Centrum Diepenbeek, Belgium; at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India; at the Association for Science Studies, Berlin, Germany, and Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.
The scope can be broadly defined as those topics which treat in
quantitative fashion the creation, flow, dissemination, and use of
scholarly or substantive information.
Representative topics are:
informetric "laws" and distributions; mathematical models of
communication; citation analyses; theory of document, text, and
information retrieval; information and productivity; the quantitative
sociology of science and of other substantive information-based
activities; study of aging and dispersion of scientific literature;
evaluation of databases; interdisciplinary connections; application of
informetrics to file design, data compression; informetric applications
to policy analysis, R&D management.
The conference was hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and held at the Hebrew University and at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Conference Chairman and Organizer
Professor Bluma C. Peritz, Director
Program Chairman
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus.
P.O. Box 1255 Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL
Fax: 972-2-6585707
Phone: 972-2-6585044; 6585045
Professor Leo Egghe
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
Gebouw
3590 Diepenbeek, BELGIUM
Phone: 32 11 268121
Fax: 32 11 268126
email: legghe@luc.ac.be
Regional Technical Program Committee Chairs
The Americas, Africa (and otherwise unclassified)
Professor Abraham Bookstein
Division of the Humanities
University of Chicago
1010 E. 59 Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637, U.S.A.
Phone: (773) 702-8268
Fax: (773) 702-9861
email: a-bookstein@uchicago.edu
Professor Michael Koenig
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Rosary College
River Forest, Illinois 60305 U.S.A.
Phone: (708) 524-6849
Fax: (708) 524-6657 or (708) 366-5360
email: roskoenigm@crf.cuis.edu
Europe
Dr. Wolfgang Glanzel
ISSRU, P.O. Box 1002
H-1245 Budapest
Hungary
Fax: 36-1-1316954
email: h4324gla@ella.hu
Asia
Professor Ravichandra Rao
Indian Statistical Institute
8th Mile, Mysore Road
R.V. College P.O.
Bangalore 560 059, INDIA
Phone: 91-80-860 0648 or 843 0975
or 860 0616/17
Fax: 91-80-843 0265
email: ikr@isibang.ernet.in or drtc@isiband.ernet.in
Conference program