In conjunction with its 19th International Conference held on 2-5 July 2023, the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) solicited nominations for the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to foster research in informetrics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webmetrics and altmetrics by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research. We were very pleased to receive no less t... Read more >

Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), is a gold open access journal. All articles published in the journal are openly accessible for readers. To cover the cost of running the journal, authors of articles published in QSS are requested to pay an article processing charge (APC). When QSS was established in 2019, ISSI and MIT Press, the publisher of QSS, agreed to set the APC to USD 600 for ISSI members and ... Read more >

In August 2020 Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) started a transparent peer review pilot, in close collaboration with our publisher, MIT Press. For articles accepted for publication in QSS, the review reports, along with the responses of the authors and the decision letters of the editor, were published in Publons, provided that the authors agreed to participate in the pilot. Reviewer identities were not revealed, unless reviewers preferred to give up their anonymity. By publishing review repo... Read more >

The ISSI 2021 conference organized by KU Leuven and University of Antwerp as a virtual event is officially closed. Participants of the conference may still access all live and pre-recorded sessions as the platform is still active until 15 October 2021.

KU LEUVEN and UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP announce the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI2021) 12–15 July 2021, Leuven (Belgium) – VIRTUAL MEETING The Organizing Committee would like to invite participants to submit a contribution to the 18th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference to be held in Leuven, Belgium. Due to the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic situation and the resulting risks for planning and organizing a ful... Read more >

Promoting open science practices is a key ambition of Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official journal of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), published by MIT Press. QSS is an open access journal and has recently been indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. It charges a relatively modest APC (USD 600 for ISSI members and USD 800 for others; covered by a subsidy from TIB if authors have no institutional support for APCs) and provides a transpare... Read more >

Over the last 15 years, we’ve witnessed an increase in the diversity of data sources which can be used for bibliometric analysis. Launched in 2018, the Dimensions database is a relative newcomer to the bibliometric space, but unavoidable due to the sheer size and heterogeneity of the sources: the database contains more than 109 million scholarly papers, 40 million patents, as well as datasets, grants, clinical trials, and policy documents. It indexes all scholarly documents that have a Digital ... Read more >

Quantitative Science Studies was launched on January 14, 2019 following the collective resignation of the Editorial Board from the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics. Thirteen months later, the journal released its first full issue, featuring 17 regular research articles as well as a special issue on bibliographic data sources. The journal continues in full swing, with more than a dozen articles in early view and two special issues nearing completion.  The first issue includes an inaugural... Read more >

The editorial board of Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official journal of the ISSI society, has started a new two-year term. In order to further strengthen and diversify the board, a number of new board members have been appointed. We are pleased to announce that the following colleagues have accepted our invitation to join the editorial board of QSS: Rodrigo Costas (Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands) Cinzia Daraio (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy) Santo Fortunato (In... Read more >

In January this year, ISSI launched Quantitative Science Studies. This was the result of a conflict between the editorial board members of Journal of Informetrics and Elsevier, the publisher of the journal. The entire editorial board of Journal of Informetrics decided to resign and to work with ISSI and MIT Press to create Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). This post provides some updates on the development of QSS. During the past months, the editorial board of QSS and the publishing team at M... Read more >