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a course related to quantitative aspects of the information sciences. Yet,
we hope in addition that researchers, scholars, and doctoral students
interested in indicators and science policy will find many parts of this
book interesting and useful.
The book is divided into 11 chapters and contains a reference list,
preface, an appendix providing the names of the recipients of the Derek
J. de Solla Price award, and some indexes. The reference list is, of course,
not meant to be exhaustive. Moreover, we apologize to those colleagues
who feel they have been unjustly omitted.
We thank our institutes, the former KHBO (Oostende), the
University of Hasselt, the University of Antwerp, and KU Leuven for
their interest and support. We thank in particular the teaching and sup-
porting staff from the education in Library and Information Science at
Antwerp University who, over a period of more than 30 years, created a
pleasant working environment, sometimes in difficult external
circumstances.

Ronald Rousseau, Leo Egghe and Raf Guns