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"

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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
Eugene Garfield (Philadelphia) ( to the homepage )

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

Laudatio
Hubert Laitko (Berlin) ( to the homepage )

Session 1
Chairperson: Heinrich Parthey (Berlin) ( to the homepage )

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) ( to the homepage )
"How Germany heeded the call of scientometrics"

Session 3
Chairperson: Walther Umstätter (Berlin) ( to the homepage )

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

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

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

Personal remarks
Eleonore Poetzsch (Potsdam)

Closing
Andrea Scharnhorst (Berlin) ( to the homepage )

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