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We are pleased to announce that an electronic submission and handling system, EES, has been implemented for
Journal of Informetrics. This 'Elsevier Editorial System' (or EES) is a web-based system with full online submission, review and status
update capabilities. EES allows you to upload files directly from your computer. This is all part of our ongoing efforts to improve the
efficiency and accuracy of our editorial procedures and the quality and timeliness of the manuscripts published. EES can be accessed
at: http://ees.elsevier.com/joi/ where first time users will have to register.
Journal of Informetrics (JOI)
publishes refereed articles on fundamental quantitative aspects of information science. The journal, although limited to -metrics aspects,
has a broad scope: in principle, all quantitative analysis of original problems in information science are within the scope of JOI. Besides
its generality, Journal of Informetrics focusses on papers describing fundamental methods and theories and/or universally important
data, gathered in a non-trivial way. Fundamental methods comprise mathematical, probabilistic or statistical models and techniques as
well as methods in operational research. These methods can serve the quantitative explanation of certain phenomena, evaluation of information
and its producers as well as the management of libraries and other information centres.
Journal of Informetrics has a special
(though not exclusive) interest in inter- and multi-disciplinary papers, dealing with common aspects of (or possible differences between)
several neighbouring disciplines such as quantitative linguistics, econometrics, biometrics and other -metrics fields. The aim is to
lower the barriers between these fields, hence avoiding reformulation of similar problems, theories and solutions. Journal of Informetrics
also welcomes certain papers from researchers who do not consider themselves as informetrists, for example research papers would be considered
on the graph-theoretic description of networks.
Journal of Informetrics also publishes papers that improve standardisation
in informetrics. In general the journal aims to contribute to increasing the degree of "hardness" of the field, and to increase the
degree of "exactness" of the scientific field of informetrics.
The journal covers informetrics and considers it to comprise (or at
least to include) fields such as bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and cybermetrics. Specific topics can be described (non-exhaustively)
as follows: informetric laws (including, but not exclusively: Lotka, Zipf, Bradford, Mandelbrot but also laws of growth and ageing or
obsolescence) hereby also modelling generalised bibliographies, aspects of inequality or concentration (e.g. Lorenz theory) and diffusion,
citation theory, linking theory, downloads, indicators (definitions and properties), evaluation techniques for scientific output (literature,
persons) and for documentary systems (information retrieval) incl. ranking theory, library management, graph-theoretic and topological
analysis of networks (incl. Internet, intranets, citation and collaboration networks), visualisation and mapping of science (persons,
fields, institutes, topics,...).
Journal of Informetrics - winner of the 2008 ALPSP Best New Journal award !
We are pleased to announce that from Volume 1 Issue 1, the Journal of Informetrics has been accepted for coverage by ThomsonScientific (formerly ISI). The journal will be listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and will receive its first Impact Factor in the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, released in 2009.
Elsevier publishes Research Trends, a bi-monthly newsletter providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis. Research Trends is powered by Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources, with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. The latest issue (number 7) marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Derek de Solla Price and members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Informetrics describe the influence his work has had on their own.
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