Introduction and Comments on Scholarly Attainment of Blaise Cronin as the Winner of the 2013 Derek John de Solla Price Medal:Based on the Scientometrics View

  • Zhang Chunbo ,
  • Ding Kun ,
  • Wang Bo
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  • School of Public Management and Law, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024

Received date: 2013-10-21

  Revised date: 2013-11-19

  Online published: 2013-12-20

Abstract

Blaise Cronin is the world-famous library and information scientist and scientometric scholar. He won the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal awardee in 2013, which is the top award in the scientometrics and informetrics field. Based on his 128 journal papers in the Web of Science, this paper has a quantitative analysis on his scholarly attainment, academic influence and scholarly communication during the 30 years by the bibliometric methods of word frequency count, co-occurrence analysis and citation analysis, with information visualization technology. The results show that Blaise Cronin is a prolific author and his paper out can be divided into four stages based on his professional experience. He has published papers in several aspects, such as citation analysis, scholarly study, scientific collaboration, webometrics and acknowledgement, which all reflect the orientation of scholarly communication and academic revaluation.Blaise Cronin is also a scholar with strong international influence from the view of H-index, regional diffusion, and citer.

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Zhang Chunbo , Ding Kun , Wang Bo . Introduction and Comments on Scholarly Attainment of Blaise Cronin as the Winner of the 2013 Derek John de Solla Price Medal:Based on the Scientometrics View[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013 , 57(24) : 132 -139 . DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.24.022

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