Ronald Rousseau


Ronald Rousseau 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.

Education and career

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 Oostende, 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. 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. From 2007 till 2015, he was the seventh chairperson of ISSI. In 2015 he became co-editor-in-chief of the .

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