Associations / Academic Societies

International Society for Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI)

The Society aims to encourage communication and exchange of professional information in the field of scientometrics and informetrics, to improve standards, theory and practice in all areas of the discipline, to stimulate research, education and training, and to enhance the public perception of the discipline.

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)

Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.

Educational Institutions and Research Programs

Australia

Research Evaluation and Policy Project - Australian National University, Canberra

Australia's leading centre for the systematic evaluation and mapping of research across all fields of scholarship. A major focus of REPP is research on the advanced quantitative analysis of scientific performance and the organisational structure of Australia's research landscape, and REPP regularly conducts bibliometric analyses of scientific publications produced under the patronage of publicly-funded bodies such as the ARC, CSIRO and NHMRC.

Denmark

Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark - Informetrics, Bibliometrics and Scientometrics

Informetrics is one of the research agendas covered by the School's R&D program titled "Information Interaction, Knowledge Theory and Organisation"

The Netherlands

CWTS - Centre for Science and Technology Studies : CWTS Publications (1990-2006)

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) specializes in advanced quantitative analysis of science and technology performance and the cognitive and organizational structure of science and technology. Research in short- and long-term programmes is carried out for governments, European Union (EU), national and international research organizations, universities and companies.

CWTS is an interdisciplinary research institute housed within the Faculty of Social Sciences. The CWTS participates in the Netherlands Graduate School on Science, Technology, and Modern Culture.

The Virtual Knowledge Studio

The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (KNAW) supports researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the Netherlands in the creation of new scholarly practices and in their reflection on e-research in relation to their fields.

Spain

CINDOC  - The Center for Scientific Information and Documentation - Centro de Información y Documantación Científica

CINDOC is part of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC). Its main aim is to analyze, disseminate and promote the scientific information in all the areas of knowledge.

The United Kingdom

Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group - University of Wolverhampton,

An information science research group developing software and methodologies to exploit Internet-based data sources for social sciences research, in addition to scientometrics, link analysis, cybermetrics and webometrics.

United States of America

ISI Thomson Scientific- Institute for Information Science, Philadelphia, US

Eugene Garfield, Ph.D.

Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Founding Editor of The Scientist.

Journals

Cybermetrics

Electronic journal of scientometrics, informetrics and bibliometrics.

Cybermetrics is both an Electronic-only Journal and a Virtual Forum (The Journal) devoted to the study of the quantitative analysis of scholarly and scientific communications in the Internet. It is open to world-wide researchers to publish and discuss their findings.

Information Research

IR is an open access, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.

Information Processing & Management

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JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

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Journal of Informetrics

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Scientometrics

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