Colloquium in honour of the 70th birthday of Dr. Manfred Bonitz:

"Patterns in scientific communication - The Matthew effect in science and beyond"

"Strukturen in der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation - Der Matthäuseffekt in der Wissenschaft"

 

16. März 2001

Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung e.V. and
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Bibliothekswissenschaft

Photos by Michael Bonitz on his homepage

Programme Committee:
Hubert Laitko, Heinrich Parthey, Andrea Scharnhorst, Walther Umstätter

Opening address link to the text on Eugene Garfield's homepage
Eugene Garfield (Philadelphia) ( to the homepage )

Letter of Robert K. Merton to Manfred Bonitz
(presented by Eugene Garfield)

Laudatio
Hubert Laitko (Berlin)

Session 1
Chairperson: Heinrich Parthey (Berlin)

Wolfgang Meiling, Franz Stary (Dresden)
"Manfred Bonitz - Schritte von der Kernphysik zur Informatik"

Rainer Thiel (Bugk, Land Brandenburg)
"Menschengeist und seine Zukunft"

Erich Mater (Berlin)
"Inhaltsanalysen durch strukturverarbeitende Automaten"

Session 2
Chairperson: Margriet Jansz (Utrecht)

Peter Ingwersen (Copenhagen) ( to the homepage )
"The impact factor Matthew Effect for authors"

Wolfgang Glänzel (Budapest)
"Changing patterns of communication and collaboration and their consequences for bibliometric studies of national citation impact"

Paul Wouters (Amsterdam)
"How Germany heeded the call of scientometrics"

Session 3
Chairperson: Walther Umstätter (Berlin)

Klaus Fuchs- Kittowski (Berlin)
"Scientific Research, Scientific Information and the Search in Internet"

Roland Wagner- Döbler (Munich, Augsburg)
"Ortega or Matthew? How big publishing houses select among book authors"

Hildrun Kretschmer (Berlin)
"The Matthew- Effect in Science: Micro- and Macrolevel"

Personal remarks
Eleonore Poetzsch (Potsdam)

Closing
Andrea Scharnhorst (Berlin)