12 th NORDIC WORKSHOP ON BIBLIOMETRICS AND RESEARCH POLICY – CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS – 13 - 14 September 2007

editors of the ISSI Newsletters decided to regularly post and archive the contents of the current issues of the journal Scientometrics on the Website of our Society. This service will be public. The contents list will comprise bibliographic information, names and affiliation of all (co-)authors as well as the abstracts and the complete postal and electronic addresses of the corresponding authors. In addition, we will alert the community to forthcoming issues through the ISSI and SIGMETCRICS listserv. The idea of providing this service is supported by the editorial team of Scientometrics under the direction of the Tibor Braun, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal. We also wish to thank András Schubert, Editor of Scientometrics, for providing us with the material we need to build up and maintain this new service. Her doctoral research on scientometrics has been conducted under the supervision of Professors Jacqueline Leta and Martha Sorenson. She is an English teacher and has designed and taught the first course on scientific writing offered through the Extension Coordination of the Health Sciences Center (CCS) at UFRJ (2004-2006). She is also the language editor of Annals of Magnetic Resonance and member of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). She is a microscopist at the Catalysis Center (NUCAT/COPPE) at UFRJ and member of the Brazilian Society for Microscopy and Materials (SBMM). Her interdisciplinary background has made it possible for her to look at interactions between language & science. She presented her preliminary doctoral results at the ISSI One of her interests is to gain a broader insight into research integrity-related publication issues. Her academic contributions in scientific writing include a book chapter entitled " The Scientific Global Village Bridged by a Language " (2003), " Correlating English Proficiency to International Publication Rates for Brazilian Scientists " (2006), a brief report published in the Journal for the European Medical Writers Association, and " Writing up Research in English: Choice or Necessity? " (2007), published in the Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons. " As a microscopist, she has co-authored 08 conference posters (1997-2007) and participated in international conferences. Her most recent contributions related to her ongoing PhD research are " English Proficiency: A Potential Science Indicator? " (ISSI 2007) and " Scientist-Friendly Policies for Non-Native English-Speaking Authors: Timely and Welcome " , accepted for publication in the Abstract: The current study draws upon the relationship between the scientometric and linguistic scenarios …