We are glad to inform you that the 31th number of the ISSI Newsletter has come out.

Content:

• J. Leta: Brazilian Scientometrics: From Little to Big?
• News, annoncements: Obituary: Manfred Bonitz (1931-2012)
• News, annoncements: Full-time Tenure-Track Faculty Position
• News, annoncements: iFQ – Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin, Germany – A Portrait
• Conference reports: esss 2012 – Scientometric education at KU Leuven
• Conference reports: VI. International Seminar on the Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Science and Technology “prof. Gilberto S. Aguilar”
• Articles: R. Rousseau, X. Hu Predicting the h-index
• Articles: A. Schubert Letter to the Editor