Abstract
The 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in July 2009 was organised by BIREME/PAHO/WHO (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), under the auspices of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). The previous ten events in this series of biennial international conferences on scientometrics and informetrics have been held in Belgium (1987), Canada (1989), India (1991), Germany (1993), USA (1995), Israel (1997), Mexico (1999), Australia (2001), China (2003), Sweden (2005) and Spain (2007). More than 230 participants from 40 countries of all continents attended the meeting, covering all relevant topics of present-day research in our field. For this special issue of the journal Scientometrics we have selected 19 original research papers, which are extended
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