Blaise Cronin

Blaise Cronin (born 1949) is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician. He is the Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University,^[1] Bloomington, where he has been 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.

Awards and honors

• 2013 Derek de Solla Price Award and 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 is currently the editor of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and was the editor of Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

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