This special issue contains edited and revised papers from the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, held in Vienna in September 2008. Three papers focus on the introduction of new indicators: the impact vitality, the field factor and different types of the h index,...

In this study we carried out a bibliometric analysis of the social sciences at three European universities (Vienna, Zurich, Oslo). The data source for this investigation was the Web of Science SSCI and publications between 2000 and 2006 were included for retrieval. Apart from the analysis of the...