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.