editors of the ISSI Newsletters decided to regularly post and archive the contents of the current issues of the journal Scientometrics on the Website of our Society. This service will be public. The contents list will comprise bibliographic information, names and affiliation of all (co-)authors as well as the abstracts and the complete postal and electronic addresses of the corresponding author...

Scientometrics cannot offer a simple consistent method for measuring the scientific eminence of individuals. The h-index method introduced by Hirsch was found applicable for evaluating publications of senior scientists with similar publishing features, only. Some simple methods – using the number of citations and journal papers, and the number of citations obtained by the most frequently cited ...

Several questions of scientometrics parameters organization are considered. Two new indices for scientific works citation analysis are proposed. They provide more detailed and reliable scientific significance assessment of individual authors and scientific groups basing on the publication activity. (точнее их разработчиков

Science-Metrix specializes in the measurement and evaluation of science, technology and innovation. Our data collection and assessment methods include bibliometrics, scientometrics, technometrics, surveys and interviews, environmental scans, monitoring and intelligence gathering. We perform program and policy evaluations, benchmarking and sector analyses, market studies and strategic planning.

introduction: since international increase of scientific productions is an indicator in assessing different countries, the purpose of this research is to investigate the scientific productions of iranian type i pharmacy faculty members (universities of isfahan, tabriz, shiraz, tehran and mashhad) in the institute for scientific information (isi) during 2006-2008. methods: in this scientometric ...

The quantitative evaluation and intercompatisun of scientific activity, productivity and prognss seems to be sheer nonsense for many, perhaps for the majority of active scientists. This attitude is quite natural, but its source is mainly prejudice, ignorance and/or misunderstanding of the basic ideas of scientometrics. The skeptics are scornful of the hopeless aim of measuring the unmeasurable....

The article provides a brief overview of the most popular information systems of evaluation of scientific activity of scientists. The vision of functional capabilities of processing of the system scientometric indicators of the scientific team, the organization and its business units on the basis of scientific profiles of existing scientometric and bibliometric systems are described. The exampl...