SECOND SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON
                               INFORMETRICS

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                             SEPTEMBER 5, 2005

The journal Information Processing and Management (IPM) will publish, mid
2006, a second special issue on the general topic "informetrics". Issue
guest editor is Leo Egghe of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum in Belgium.
Note that from June 15, 2005 on the name of LUC is changed into
"Universiteit Hasselt" (UHasselt) (see coordinates below). There is no
restriction on informetric topics, for reasons explained in the second part
of this call but one seeks papers of high quality on either one or both of
the following aspects:

*            professional data gathering
*            explanation of regularities found in the data (mathematical
modelling).

As such we expect informetric papers on the following possible topics:

*            bibliographies (authors, journals)
*            indexing and information retrieval
*            libraries and other information centres
*           citation analysis and performance indicators
*           growth and aging (obsolescence) of literature
      *            scientific communication (incl. collaboration), social
      networks among which the Internet, incl. webometrics
      *           links (topical as well as methodological) with other
      -metrics fields such as sociometrics, econometrics, biometrics,
      quantitative linguistics and the study of complex, self-organising
      systems.

      The deadline for submission is September 30, 2005.

      The papers should be sent to

      Prof. Dr. Leo Egghe
      Issue guest editor IPM

      Universiteit Hasselt
      Agoralaan - Gebouw D
      B-3590 Diepenbeek
      Belgium
      tel.: +32 11 26.81.21
      fax: +32 11 26.81.26
      e-mail: leo.egghe@uhasselt.be

Papers should be sent, preferably, by e-mail. If sent by airmail we expect
that 3 copies are submitted.
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It is intended that this should be the second of a growing series of issues
on this theme that will become the core collection of work in this field.