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.
Ronald Rousseau received the 2020 West Lake Friendship Award from Zhejiang Province, China.
In 2021, he received the President's International Fellowship Inititative (PIFI) award as Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [7]
Ding, Y., Rousseau, R., & Wolfram, D. (eds.) (2014). Measuring scholarly impact: Methods and practice. ISBN978-3-319-10377-8. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Rousseau, R., Egghe, L. & Guns, R. (2018). Becoming metric-wise. A bibliometric guide for researchers, ISBN978-0-08-102474-4. 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
^Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1990). Introduction to informetrics. Quantitative methods in library, documentation and information science. ISBN0-444-88493-9. Elsevier, 430 p.
