Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction.- Measuring Science.- Econometric Approaches to the Analysis of Productivity of R&D Systems.- Indicators for National Science and Technology Policy.- Keeping the Gates of Science Journals.- S&T Indicators for Policy Making in a Changing Science-Society Relationship.- Paradigms and Trajectories of Technological Opportunities 1890–1990.- Science on the Periphery: Bridging the Information Divide.- Data Mining and Text Mining for Science & Technology Research.- Opening the Black Box.- Science Maps Within a Science Policy Context.- Analysing Scientific Networks Through Co-Authorship.- Patent Citations and the Economic Value of Patents.- Scientific and Technological Performance by Gender.- The Use of Input Data in the Performance Analysis of R&D Systems.- Methodological Issues of Webometric Studies.- Descriptive Versus Evaluative Bibliometrics.- What Happens When Funding is Linked to Publication Counts?.- Internationalisation in Science in the Prism of Bibliometric Indicators.- Analysis of Cross-Disciplinary Research Through Bibliometric Tools.- Citations to Papers from Other Documents.- The Four Literatures of Social Science.- Evaluation of Research Performance and Scientometric Indicators in China.- Decomposing National Trends in Activity and Impact.- National Patterns of Technology Accumulation: Use of Patent Statistics.- Using Patent Citation Indicators to Manage a Stock Portfolio.- Patent Data for Monitoring S&T Portfolios.- Patent Profiling for Competitive Advantage.- Knowledge Networks from Patent Data.- Measuring the Internationalisation of the Generation of Knowledge.- Patents and Publications.- Measuring and Evaluating Science—Technology Connections and Interactions.- The Technological Output of Scientific Institutions.- Specialisation and Integration.- Science and Technology Systems in Less Developed Countries.