Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

This volume (Vol. 5, No. 3) of the Journal of Data and Information Science (JDIS) is the Part I of the Special Issue on ISSI 2019, the 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI2019) held in Rome, on 2–5 September 2019 and includes the first part of the selected posters presented during the conference and extended by the authors afterward. The goal of ISSI 2019 was to bring together scholars and practitioners in the area of informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and altmetrics to discuss new research directions, methods and theories, and to highlight the best research in this area. The 13 selected papers included in this issue relate the general topic of novel approaches to the development and application of informetric and scientometric tools and have been grouped in four themes: - Indicators & Databases - Analytical methods - Social context, Innovation, Policy - Application domains