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 >