Blaise Cronin

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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 to 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.

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Biography

Cronin was well known for his work in bibliometrics and scientometrics. He also was known for researching and understanding the importance of acknowledgements in scholarly papers.

Awards and honors

Publications

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

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

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References

  1. "Blaise Cronin's Homepage". Indiana University . Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  2. "Jason Farradane Award past winners". Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Retrieved 16 June 2021.