Nicola de Bellis graduated in philosophy at the University of Bari, Italy, he obtained a PhD in history of science in 1998 with a doctoral dissertation on the communication structure of Renaissance natural history. Having joined a medical library in 2002, he has been working since then on the boundary line between information science, history and philosophy of science. In 2009 he published the book “Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics” (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009).

Juan Gorraiz studied physics at the University of Madrid and at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his Doctor’s degree. He is Head of the Document Delivery Services of the Central Library for Physics and of the Bibliometrics Department of the Library and Archive Services, University of Vienna. He is working on bibliometric analysis and studies since 1992 and is furthermore teaching at the university course ‘Library and Information Studies’. Organizer and programme chair of the ‘10th International Conference on Science & Technical Indicators’2008 in Vienna.

Christian Gumpenberger has a Doctor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the Danube University Krems. He was Head of the Department of Public Services and Reference Librarians at the University Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Head of the Novartis Knowledge Center Vienna as well as Global Project Manager for the Novartis Institutional Repository Project & Open Access Champion at Novartis, and also ran his own information consultancy business focussing on project management in the field of new trends in scholarly communication, especially Open Access. He is currently a member of the Bibliometrics Department of the Library and Archive Services, University of Vienna, coordinator of the Council of Austrian University Libraries and also in charge of the European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss) administration.

Sozon Papavlasopoulos is Assistant Professor οf Bibliometrics at the Department of Archives and Library Sciences (Information Science) at the Ionian University. He received his four-year BSc from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1978), his M.Sc from Brunel University of London (1980) and his Ph.D from the Ionian University (2007). His research interests include medical informatics, semantic web-metadata, statistics, social networks and pattern recognition.Dr Papavlasopoulos has participated in several research projects funded by Greece or European Community. He has also been a member of several technical committees and working groups on subjects related to Bibliometrics and Statistics. He is a member of the Greek Mathematical Society, of the Greek statistical institute and of the Greek Computer Society.

Marios Poulos received his BSc (majoring in Physics) from the University of Athens, Greece (1986), and his PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Piraeus (2003). Since 2003 he has been a member of staff in the Department of Archives and Library Science at the Ionian University and, in 2007, became Assistant Professor of Semantic Processing of Information at the Department of Archives and Library Science at the Ionian University. He is currently director of the laboratory of Information Technology. He is also a member of several technical committees and working groups on subjects relating to medical informatics, information science and pattern recognition systems. He is a member of the senate of the Ionian University in the academic year 2008-now. He is primarily interested in Medical Informatics with a particular interest in the digital processing of EEG. He is also interested in Semantic Web-metadata, Biometrics System, Pattern Recognition, Computational Geometry, Neural Networks, Image Processing, Text Categorization, Copyright Techniques and Social Networks. He is a reviewer for the following prestigious journals: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Journal, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Analysis & Applications Journal (Springer Verlang) and the BioMedical Engineering OnLine journal. He is also a member of the Expert Committee of MTSR Conference and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Publications Twenty-eight (28) of his studies have been published in prestigious international journals, twenty-five (25) of his studies have been published in the proceedings of international conferences, and he has co-written two (2) scientific books.