Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau organized the first bibliometric conference in 1987 in Diepenbeek, Belgium. Their idea at that time was only to gather like-minded scholars and thereby to gauge the strength of interest in this field. Egghe and Rousseau were unsure of whether there were sufficient numbers of scholars interested in this emerging field of research to support a single conference, let alone be the first of a series. The first conference was called the “International Conference on Bibliometrics and Theoretical Aspects of Information Retrieval”. At that time, there were no plans for starting a continuing series of conferences nor of forming a professional association. However, history shows that there was significant interest and it was decided early on that others should follow.
The second conference was organised in 1989 by Jean Tague from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the third in 1991 by Ravichandra Rao in Bangalore, India.
By 1993, there were moves to create a professional association. The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) was voted into existence by participants at the Berlin Conference. From that time on, the official name for conferences became International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics.
The next ISSI conference will take place in Bloomington, IN, USA, from 2 to 5 July 2023.
It is hosted by Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA. Indiana University is one of the top rated universities in the US and consistently rated as one of the most beautiful campuses. The event will be held in the Memorial Union which blends classical elegance with modern amenities. Visitors will enjoy a diversity of cuisine from nearby restaurants and local breweries, and have access to entertainment ranging from the outdoors to cultural activities like live music, museums, and more.
It has become somewhat of a tradition that host countries will alternate among 'old' world countries of the Northern Hemisphere and 'new' world countries, predominantly in the Southern Hemisphere. On examining the list of conferences and host countries, you will see that the idea of north-south/east-west distribution of conferences has been upheld, even if not to the letter of strict geography. This distribution of locations of the conferences gives opportunities for host countries to encourage and showcase scientometric and informetric research in their home institutions to an international audience.
Further, each host country has the privilege of introducing their country and its research to a range of international scholars as well as being able to invite a range of its own scholars who might otherwise not have been able to attend. The conferences stimulate the kind of scholarly conversations that may lead to international collaboration and lead to better understanding and interaction among the international community of scientometric scholars. Bids for hosting future conferences are accepted at the ISSI Board meeting held at each biennial conference.
12 - 15 July
18th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
KU Leuven,
Leuven, Belgium
2 - 5 September
17th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Sapienza University,
Rome, Italy
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Henk F. Moed, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Program Chair
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Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 Committee
Committee for the ISSI Student Travel award
16 - 20 October
16th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Wuhan University,
Wuhan, China
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29 June – 04 July
15th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Boğaziçi University,
Istanbul, Turkey
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15-19 July
14th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria
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4-7 July
13th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Department of Library and Information Science,
University of Zululand
Durban, South Africa
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14-17 July
12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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25-27 June
11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Centre for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC)
Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
Madrid, Spain
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24-28 July
10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden
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25-29th August
9th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Chinese Association for Science, and Science & Technology Policy,
Beijing, China
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16-20th July
8th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
The University of New South Wales,
School of Information Systems, Technology and Management,
Sydney, Australia
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5-8th July
7th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Universidad de Colima,
Colima, Mexico
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16-19th June
6th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies,
Jerusalem, Israel
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7-10th June
5th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
Rosary College (now The Dominican University),
Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
River Forest, Illinois, USA
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11-15th September
4th International Conference on Bibliometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics
Association for the Promotion of the 4th International Conference of Science Measurement e.v.,
Berlin, Germany
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9-12 August
3rd International Conference on Informetrics
Indian Statistical Institute,
Documentation Research Centre,
Bangalore, India
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5-7th July
2nd International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics
University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada
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25-28th August
1st International Conference on Bibliometrics and Theoretical Aspects of Information Retrieval
Limburgs Universitair Centrum,
Diepenbeek, Belgium
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