Blaise Cronin

Blaise Cronin (born 1949) is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician. He is the Rudy Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Indiana University,[1] Bloomington, where he was Dean of the School of Library and Information Science for seventeen years. From 1985-1991 he held the Chair of Information Science and was Head of the Department of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, U.K.

Biography

Awards and honors
  • 2013 Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal for "outstanding contributions to the fields of quantitative studies of science."
  • Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Information Science, City University London, 2007-
  • Visiting Professor, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Science, University of Brighton, 2007-2010
  • Award of Merit, American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006
  • Rudy Professor of Information Science, Indiana University, 1999-
  • Talis Information Visiting Professor of Information Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996-2003
  • Visiting Professor, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, 2000-
  • Visiting Professor of Information Management, Napier University, Edinburgh, 1999-2000
  • Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa), Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, 1997
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, 1998
  • Fellow, Institute of Management, 1989
  • Fellow, Institute of Information Scientists, 1988
  • Fellow, Library Association, 1984

Publications

Blaise Cronin has published more that 300 documents, including monographs, scientific articles, opinion papers, conference papers. Among his publications are:

  • 1984: The citation process. The role and significance of citations in scientific communication. London: Taylor Graham,
  • 1988: Post-professionalism: transforming the information heartland. London: Taylor Graham (with Elizabeth Davenport).
  • 1991: Elements of information management. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press (with Elizabeth Davenport).
  • 1995: The scholar's courtesy: The role of acknowledgement in the primary communication process. London: Taylor Graham.
  • 2000: The web of knowledge: A Festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield. Medford, NJ: Information Today (with H.B. Atkins,Eds.).
  • 2005: The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and its Rewards. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

He edited Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

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gollark: Well, you could argue it's with people using C for odd things.
gollark: OpenSSL had Heartbleed for ages. They have competent programmers, and yet this issue - which a more memory safe language could not easily have - persisted for ages.
gollark: A good language should be safe *automatically*, and actually *warn* you about things.
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References
  1. "Blaise Cronin's Homepage". Indiana University. Retrieved 31 December 2016.


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