Ronald Rousseau (Antwerp, 1949) is a Belgian mathematician and information scientist. He has obtained an international reputation for his research on indicators and citation analysis in the fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics.

Ronald Rousseau
Ronald Rousseau
Born
Ronald Joseph Emile Rousseau

(1949-08-14)14 August 1949
SpouseMyrian Salembier
AwardsDerek J. de Solla Price Medal (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsBibliometrics
Scientometrics
Mathematics
InstitutionsKHBO
KU Leuven
University of Antwerp

Education and career

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Ronald Rousseau obtained his doctorate in mathematics at the KU Leuven in 1977 and his doctorate in documentation and library science at the UIA in 1992. He was Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Industrial Science and Technology at the KHBO in Ostend, Belgium. Rousseau has focused his research on the development and use of indicators to measure the quality of research and main trends in science. He is an expert in citation analysis and research evaluation. In 1990 Ronald Rousseau and Leo Egghe wrote the first manual of bibliometrics.[1] Rousseau has published more than 200 scientific articles on various aspects of bibliometrics and scientometrics in, among other journals, Scientometrics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and the Journal of Informetrics. He is considered to be one of the most productive writers in this discipline. Rousseau, along with Leo Egghe, received the Derek de Solla Price award in 2001.[2] From 2007 till 2015, he was the seventh chairperson of ISSI.[3] In 2015 he became co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data and Information Science.

Honors and awards

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Publications (selection)

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Books

  • Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1990). Introduction to informetrics. Quantitative methods in library, documentation and information science. ISBN 0-444-88493-9. Elsevier, 430 p.
  • Ding, Y., Rousseau, R., & Wolfram, D. (eds.) (2014). Measuring scholarly impact: Methods and practice. ISBN 978-3-319-10377-8. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Rousseau, R., Egghe, L. & Guns, R. (2018). Becoming metric-wise. A bibliometric guide for researchers, ISBN 978-0-08-102474-4. Chandos Publishing: Elsevier

Articles

  • Rousseau, R. (1979). Sitations: An exploratory study. Cybermetrics, 1(1) [The first article showing that Internet inlinks follow a power law]
  • Rousseau, S., & Rousseau, R. (1997). Data envelopment analysis as a tool for constructing scientometric indicators. Scientometrics, 40(1), 45-56. doi:10.1007/BF02459261
  • Otte, E., & Rousseau, R. (2002). Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences. Journal of Information Science, 28(6), 441-453. doi:10.1177/016555150202800601
  • Ahlgren, P., Jarneving, B., & Rousseau, R. (2003). Requirements for a cocitation similarity measure, with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(6), 550-560. doi:10.1002/asi.10242
  • Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (2006). An informetric model for the Hirsch-index. Scientometrics, 69(1), 121-129. doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0143-8
  • Jin, B., Liang, L., Rousseau, R., & Egghe, L. (2007). The R-and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index. Chinese Science Bulletin, 52(6), 855-863. doi:10.1007/s11434-007-0145-9
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References

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  1. ^ Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1990). Introduction to informetrics. Quantitative methods in library, documentation and information science. ISBN 0-444-88493-9. Elsevier, 430 p.
  2. ^ "Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal". International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
  3. ^ "About". International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
  4. ^ "Prof. Ronald Rousseau receives honorary degree at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou".
  5. ^ Xiaojun Hu (2015). Ronald Rousseau is awarded an honorary professorship by Zhejiang University. ISSI Newsletter, vol.11, nr.4
  6. ^ "Ronald Rousseau: Nederlandse homepage". users.telenet.be.
  7. ^ http://english.las.cas.cn/news/news/202312/t20231226_654309.html