The opening of Fifth International Conference on WIS & Tenth COLLNET Meeting

The opening ceremony of Fifth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & Tenth COLLNET Meeting is held successfully in academic hall of the library of DUT. The founder of SCI Dr. Garfield, Price Award Winner Prof. Wolfgang Glanzel and Prof. White, Changjiang Scholar of China Dr. Chaomei Chen, Chairman of COLLNET Prof. Hildrum Kretschmer, Prof. Liang Liming, Prof. Ramesh Kundra, and about 100 other scholars from more than 20 countries like USA, Germany, Russia, China, India and Iran all attended this opening ceremony. Besides, Vice-Dean of Chinese Academic of Sciences, leader of Chinese Association of Science of Science and S&T Policy Research Xin Fang and Vice-president of Dalian University of Technology Dr. Dongming Guo also attended this ceremony.

Chairman Kretschmer H. presided the opening ceremony. She made a brief introduction of COLLNET at and expressed great appreciation to all the contributors to Science of Scientometrics.

The founder of WISE lab Prof. Zeyuan Liu warmly welcomed the specialists from all over the world by quoting a famous phrase of Chinese sage Confucius ‘welcoming friends from afar gives one great delight’. He also wished the conference a complete success.

Vice-Dean of Chinese Academic of Sciences Prof. Xin Fang strongly emphasized the  importance of Scientometrics and offered admiration to DUT of its pioneering contributions to Science of Scientometrics. She also hoped DUT will strengthen cooperation with other countries in Science and Technology in the future.

Finally, Vice-president of DUT Dr. Dongming Guo gave a speech for the ceremony. He briefly introduced the history of Dalian University of Technology. Dr. Guo strengthened that DUT has fostered lots of world famous specialists in various research areas since 1949. DUT has also made cooperation with 19 countries and more than 100 universities. Prof. Guo believes that this COLLNET meeting will promote the cooperation of DUT with other worldwide well-known universities and will also promote further development of Science of Scientometric.