Jean Tague-Sutcliffe

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Jean Tague-Sutcliffe (1931-1996) was an information scientist known for her contributions to the field of informetrics. She developed models for information measurement and information retrieval using empirical methods and statistical data. She served as Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario from 1984 to 1995. [1]

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Education and career

Tague-Sutcliffe obtained a bachelor of library science degree from McGill University and a Ph.D from Western Reserve University. [1] [2]

Her research primarily focused on the development of mathematical models for retrieval of information, with an emphasis on bibliometrics. [3] She helped developed statistical tests for experiments run by the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) in the 1990s. [1]

She became the Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario in 1984 and served in that position until 1995, the year before her death. [1] She was a long-time member of the American Society for Information Science (now known as the Association for Information Science and Technology, serving as Director-at-Large and winning two awards from the organization for her publications. [1]

Notable works

Book

Selected papers

Awards

Legacy

The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) holds the annual Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition, established in Tague-Sucliffe's memory by students at University of Western Ontario in 1997. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Nelson, Mike (October 1997). "In Memoriam Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, 1931-1996". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 48 (10): 866. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199710)48:10<866::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-#. ProQuest   216902337 – via ProQuest.
  2. ↑ Tague‑Sutcliffe, Jean (1994). "State of the Modern Information Professional, 1992‑93; An International View of the State of the Information Professional and the Information Profession, 1992‑1993". World Libraries. 4 (2). ISSN   2155-7896.
  3. ↑ Frické, Martin (1998-07-01). "Jean Tague-Sutcliffe on measuring information" . Information Processing & Management. 34 (4): 385–394. doi:10.1016/S0306-4573(98)00018-1. ISSN   0306-4573.
  4. ↑ Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean (1995). Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective. Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-12-682660-9.
  5. ↑ Ajiferuke, Isola; Burell, Q.; Tague, Jean (1988-11-01). "Collaborative coefficient: A single measure of the degree of collaboration in research" . Scientometrics. 14 (5): 421–433. doi:10.1007/BF02017100. ISSN   1588-2861.
  6. ↑ Tague, Jean; Schultz, Ryan (1989-01-01). "Evaluation of the user interface in an information retrieval system: A model" . Information Processing & Management. 25 (4): 377–389. doi:10.1016/0306-4573(89)90066-6. ISSN   0306-4573.
  7. ↑ Tague, Jean; Salminen, Airi; McClellan, Charles (1991-09-01). "Complete formal model for information retrieval systems". Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. SIGIR '91. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 14–20. doi: 10.1145/122860.122862 . ISBN   978-0-89791-448-2.
  8. ↑ Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean (1992-01-01). "An introduction to informetrics" . Inf. Process. Manage. 28 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1016/0306-4573(92)90087-G. ISSN   0306-4573.
  9. ↑ "Award of Merit Recipients". Association for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  10. ↑ "Best Information Science Book Award Recipients". Association for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  11. ↑ "Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition". Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Retrieved October 27, 2025.
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