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Blaise Cronin's Degrees
- Masters Library Science National University of Ireland
- Bachelors English and History National University of Ireland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Blaise Cronin is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician. He is the Rudy Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Indiana University, 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.
Blaise Cronin's Published Works
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Published Works
- Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing (2002) (1234)
- Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science (2013) (896)
- Bias in peer review (2013) (677)
- The citation process: The role and significance of citations in scientific communication (1984) (505)
- Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices? (2001) (429)
- Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: the Art of Scanning the Environment (1997) (313)
- Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists (2006) (307)
- Bibliometrics and beyond: some thoughts on web-based citation analysis (2001) (281)
- A cast of thousands: Coauthorship and subauthorship collaboration in the 20th century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy (2003) (263)
- The Hand of Science: Academic Writing and Its Rewards (2005) (210)
- : Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline (2003) (194)
- Popular and/or prestigious? Measures of scholarly esteem (2010) (181)
- Invoked on the Web (1998) (172)
- The Need for a Theory of citing (1981) (170)
- The web of knowledge: a festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield (2000) (165)
- A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years (2012) (151)
- Comparative citation rankings of authors in monographic and journal literature: a study of sociology (1997) (143)
- Visible, less visible, and invisible work: Patterns of collaboration in 20th century chemistry (2004) (142)
- The distribution of references across texts: Some implications for citation analysis (2013) (117)
- The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role Of Acknowledgement In The Primary Communication Process (1995) (114)
- Knowledge management: semantic drift or conceptual shift? (2000) (110)
- The sociological turn in information science (2008) (107)
- Beyond bibliometrics : harnessing multidimensional indicators of scholarly impact (2014) (106)
- arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record: An analysis of roles and relationships (2013) (102)
- The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies (2008) (96)
- Conceptions of library and information science: historical, empirical, and theoretical perspectives (1992) (91)
- Identity-creators and image-makers: Using citation analysis and thick description to put authors in their place (2002) (86)
- Invisible Colleges and Information Transfer a Review and Commentary with particular Reference to the Social Sciences (1982) (82)
- Scholarly communication and epistemic cultures (2003) (81)
- The internet and competitive intelligence: A survey of current practice (1994) (74)
- The citation network as a prototype for representing trust. (2000) (73)
- Citation-Based Auditing of Academic Performance (1994) (73)
- The export of ideas from information science (1990) (69)
- Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability and relationships with journal measures (2013) (69)
- E-Journals and Tenure (1995) (68)
- Knowledge management, organizational culture and Anglo-American higher education (2001) (67)
- The Norms of acknowledgement in Four Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines (1993) (61)
- Patterns of acknowledgement (1992) (59)
- E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy (2001) (58)
- Trading cultures: Resource mobilization and service rendering in the life sciences as revealed in the journal article's paratext (2006) (57)
- Information Warfare: Its Application in Military and Civilian Contexts (1999) (57)
- Citation, funding acknowledgement and author nationality relationships in four information science journals (1999) (56)
- Let the credits Roll: a Preliminary Examination of the Role played by Mentors and Trusted Assessors in disciplinary Formation (1991) (55)
- Timelines of creativity: A study of intellectual innovators in information science (2007) (55)
- The Citation: From Culture to Infrastructure (2014) (53)
- The Emergent Market for Information Professionals: Educational Opportunities and Implications (1993) (53)
- A bird's-eye view of scientific trading: Dependency relations among fields of science (2012) (52)
- The Scholar's Courtesy: a Survey of acknowledgement behaviour (1994) (51)
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (2008) (50)
- The praxis of acknowledgement: from bibliometrics to influmetrics (1995) (50)
- Acknowledgement trends in the research literature of information science (2001) (48)
- Norms and functions in citation: The view of journal editors and referees in psychology (1982) (46)
- Metatheorizing citation (2006) (46)
- Banking (on) different forms of symbolic capital (2002) (45)
- Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities (2004) (45)
- Bowling alone together: Academic writing as distributed cognition (2004) (45)
- Scholarly Foraging and Network Discovery Tools (1995) (43)
- Science and Scholarship on the World Wide Web: a North American Perspective (1996) (41)
- Shibboleth and Substance in North American Library and Information Science Education (1995) (41)
- Semiotics and evaluative bibliometrics (2000) (41)
- Changing of the guard (2009) (40)
- Accounting for Influence: Acknowledgments in Contemporary Sociology (1993) (39)
- Information Professionals in the Digital Age. (1998) (39)
- Elements of information management (1991) (39)
- Who dunnit? Metatags and hyperauthorship (2001) (37)
- Criteria for Evaluating Indicators (2014) (37)
- Acknowledgments and Intellectual Indebtedness: A Bibliometric Conjecture (1993) (36)
- Using the h-index to rank influential information scientistss: Brief Communication (2006) (35)
- What's the use of citation? Citation analysis as a literature topic in selected disciplines of the social sciences (1995) (34)
- Visualizing and comparing four facets of scholarly communication: producers, artifacts, concepts, and gatekeepers (2013) (34)
- Tiered Citation and Measures of Document Similarity (1994) (33)
- Citation gamesmanship: testing for evidence of ego bias in peer review (2013) (33)
- Peers and Spheres of Influence: Situating Rob Kling (2007) (32)
- Assessing user needs (1981) (32)
- The trajectory of rejection (1992) (32)
- History and Evolution of (Biblio)Metrics (2014) (31)
- The Marketing of library and information services (1981) (31)
- An I-dentity crisis? The information schools movement (2005) (30)
- Agreement and divergence on referencing practice (1981) (29)
- Information and productivity: A review of research (1986) (29)
- Thinking about data (2013) (28)
- Performance measurement and information management (1982) (27)
- Texts at work: some thoughts on "Just for You" service in the context of domain expertise. (1998) (27)
- Hypertext and the Conduct of Science (1990) (27)
- Information management: from strategies to action 2 (1985) (27)
- A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge Society (2002) (27)
- Bibliographic References in Web 2.0 (2014) (26)
- Normative shaping of scientific practice: The magic of Merton (2004) (26)
- Research Brief rates of Return to citation (1996) (26)
- Obliteration by Incorporation (2014) (26)
- The education of library-information professionals: A conflict of objectives? (1982) (25)
- Biobibliometric profiling: An examination of multifaceted approaches to scholarship (2012) (25)
- Bibliometric Standards for Evaluating Research Institutes in the Natural Sciences (2014) (24)
- Collaboration in Art and in Science: Approaches to Attribution, Authorship, and Acknowledgment (2012) (24)
- Post-professionalism: transforming the information heartland (1989) (24)
- A hundred million acts of whimsy (2005) (22)
- The Ethics of Evaluative Bibliometrics (2014) (22)
- Post-industrial society: Some manpower issues for the library/information profession (1983) (21)
- Expert systems and library/information work (1983) (21)
- Applying the author affiliation index to library and information science journals (2008) (21)
- Strategic intelligence and networked business (2000) (21)
- Profiling the professors (1989) (20)
- Holding the center while prospecting at the periphery: Domain identity and coherence in North American information studies education (2002) (20)
- Receiving the French: a bibliometric snapshot of the impact of `French theory' on information studies (2009) (18)
- The waxing and waning of a field: reflections on information studies education (Invited paper) (2012) (17)
- On the epistemic significance of place (2008) (17)
- Strategic information management: Forging the value chain (1988) (17)
- Scholars and Scripts, Spoors and Scores (2014) (16)
- Vernacular and vehicular language (2009) (16)
- Markets, competition, and intelligence on the world wide web (1996) (16)
- Information science in the international arena: an educator's perspective (1992) (16)
- The evolving indicator space (iSpace) (2013) (16)
- Knowledge management in higher education. (2000) (15)
- Patterns of puffery (2005) (15)
- Women's studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years (1997) (15)
- Web Impact Metrics for Research Assessment (2014) (14)
- The Warholian Moment and other Proto-Indicators of Scholarly Salience (1999) (14)
- Postscript on Program Rankings (1996) (13)
- Laptops and the marketing information chain: The benefits of salesforce automation (1990) (13)
- Raising the intelligence stakes: Corporate information warfare and strategic surprise (1999) (13)
- The transition years : new initiatives in the education of professional information workers (1983) (13)
- A Network Approach to Scholarly Evaluation (2014) (13)
- Some reflections on citation habits in psychology (1980) (13)
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2010 (2009) (12)
- Self-plagiarism: An odious oxymoron (2013) (12)
- Courtship and Competition on Campus: The Convergence of University Libraries and Computing Centres (1989) (12)
- Information warfare: peering inside Pandora’s postmodern box (2001) (12)
- The Marketing of Public Library Services in the United Kingdom — The Rationale for a Marketing Approach (1984) (12)
- Letter from America: Digital entrepreneurship: doing business on the information superhighway (1993) (12)
- Competitive edge and information technology (1988) (11)
- : Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy (1995) (11)
- Future libraries: Dreams, madness, & reality (1996) (11)
- Intelligence, terrorism, and national security (2006) (10)
- Taking the measure of service (1982) (10)
- Libraries and the university value chain (1989) (10)
- The Marketing of Public Library Services in the UK — Practical Applications (1984) (10)
- The geographic distribution of Mexican health sciences research (1989) (10)
- The resilience of rejected manuscripts (2012) (10)
- Slow Food for thought (2013) (9)
- Assessing the Impact and Benefits of Information and Library Research (1983) (9)
- Scholarly Metrics Under the Microscope: From Citation Analysis to Academic Auditing (2014) (9)
- What does hypertext offer the information scientist? (1989) (9)
- At online acknowledgement index: rationale and feasibility (1992) (9)
- Letter from America: Netelligence: Informal know-how trading on the internet (1994) (9)
- Opinion Paper: Education Issues - Cutting the Gordian Knot (1995) (9)
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS Warm Bodies, Cold Facts: The Embodiment and Emplacement of Knowledge Claims (2008) (9)
- Towards information-based economies (1986) (8)
- Human Centered Systems in the Perspective of Organizational and Social Informatics (2019) (8)
- From paradigm to practice: the logic of promotion (1981) (8)
- The ARgo: A strategic information system for group decision making (1995) (8)
- Educational pluralism for a diversifying profession (2007) (8)
- New technology and marketing—the challenge for librarians (1982) (7)
- The changing profile of JASIST authors (2009) (7)
- Social skills training in librarianship (1983) (7)
- Pierce Butler’s An Introduction to Library Science: a tract for our times? (2004) (7)
- CAB Abstracts: a global view (1980) (7)
- The electronic academy revisited (1998) (6)
- Vox populi: Civility in the blogosphere (2005) (6)
- Mexican health sciences research 1982–1986 (1988) (6)
- Do me a favor (2012) (6)
- ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE Bias in Peer Review (2013) (6)
- Conflicts of Jurisdiction: An Exploratory Study of Academic, Professional, and Epistemological Norms in Library and Information Science (1996) (6)
- Advances in information science (2010) (6)
- The Competitive Campus: Networking and Higher Education (1989) (5)
- Information quality: definitions and dimensions (I. Wormell, ed.) (1991) (5)
- Meanwhile in West Germany (1983) (5)
- Vertical Integration: Corporate Strategy in the Information Industry. (1986) (5)
- The electronic academy (1984) (5)
- Disjointed incrementalism and 1990 (1985) (5)
- Adaption, extinction or genetic drift? (1983) (5)
- Competitive Intelligence and Social Advantage (1994) (5)
- The intelligence disconnect (2011) (5)
- The Business Web in Russia: Usability for the Western User. (1996) (4)
- Science Metrics and Science Policy (2014) (4)
- Meta‐life (2014) (4)
- The contribution of higher education institutions to the development of the Mexican health sciences base (1989) (4)
- Consumer attitudes to information technology in banking (1991) (4)
- Nichemanship for the Nineties (1987) (4)
- The writing on the wall (2015) (4)
- Telematics and retribalisation (1987) (4)
- Rigor and Speed (2009) (4)
- The uncontested orthodoxy (1988) (4)
- A seat at the table (2009) (4)
- Do Deans Publish What They Preach? (1999) (4)
- Chapter 3 – Trinity College Dublin (2016) (3)
- The virtual apprentice (1991) (3)
- Information accounting (1989) (3)
- Book Reviews : Eugene GARFIELD, Essays of an information scien tist. Vol.3, 1977-1978 (ISI Press, Philadelphia, 1980), 892 pp., $ 15 (1980) (3)
- The Incessant Chattering of Texts (2016) (3)
- When is a problem a research problem (1992) (3)
- Direct mail advertising and public library use (1980) (3)
- Information and productivity (1985) (3)
- Transatlantic perspectives on information policy: the search for regulatory realism (1987) (3)
- Demand and Supply in Information Work. (1989) (3)
- High-Fidelity Mapping of Intellectual Space (2005) (3)
- Studying scientific collaboration. Part 1: Methodology for investigating collaboration. Part 2: Research papers - collaboration in action (2005) (3)
- From Signtometrics to Scientometrics: A Cautionary Tale of Our Times (2013) (3)
- The information society (1986) (2)
- World Information Report, 1997/98. Andrew LargeWorld Education Report 1998: Teachers and Teaching in a Changing World. John SmythWorld Communications Report: The Media and the Challenge of the New Technologies. Lofti Maherzi (1999) (2)
- Social development and the role of information : Information support for social management : Imperatives for the 21st century (1995) (2)
- Knowledge management, performance metrics, and higher education: Does it all compute? (2001) (2)
- The vicious circle of citation (1983) (2)
- Translating an International Education to a National Environment (1991) (2)
- Public/private sector interaction: a review of issues with particular reference to document delivery and electronic publishing (1984) (2)
- Standing on ceremony (2013) (2)
- Don't confuse accreditation with reputation (2011) (2)
- New horizons for the information profession: strategic intelligence and competitive advantage (1988) (2)
- Guest workers ... host librarians: public library provision for migrant workers in West Germany (1980) (2)
- Digibabble [Letter from America] (1998) (2)
- Marketing Electronic Information (1987) (2)
- Charting a new course: developing and implementing a curriculum for a Master's of Information Science degree (1997) (2)
- Value chains, pogosticks and competitive edge (1988) (2)
- Do deans publish what they preach (1999) (2)
- Macro user education—sensitizing management to the value of information (1989) (2)
- A Publishing Perspective on Bibliometrics (2014) (2)
- From Victorian visiting card to vCard: the evolution of a communicative genre (2003) (2)
- The information industry in AD 2000 (1989) (2)
- Library Orthodoxies: A Decade of Change (1991) (2)
- Information technology and information management: strategies for post-experience training (1989) (2)
- Excellence under the microscope (1989) (2)
- The Schools Information Retrieval (SIR) project (1983) (1)
- Language matters (2012) (1)
- Future users: how can we plan, train and educate? (1989) (1)
- Information technology in the service society: A twenty-first century lever: National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994. 270 pp. $29.00 (ISBN 0-309 04876-1) (1995) (1)
- Putting Boyd in His Place (2014) (1)
- Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Richard A. Posner (2003) (1)
- Visualizing and comparing four facets of scholarly communication: producers, artifacts, concepts, and gatekeepers (2012) (1)
- Information management research in Europe : proceedings of the EURIM 5 Conference, Palais des Congrès, Versailles, France, May 1982 (1983) (1)
- Networking: some root definitions and issues (1991) (1)
- Research libraries: an agenda for change (1989) (1)
- Identifying and Quantifying Research Strengths Using Market Segmentation (2014) (1)
- The electronic librarian (1986) (1)
- Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process, edited by Deborah Lines Andersen. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. x + 277 pp. $64.95 (cloth)/$24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-7656-1114-7 (2004) (1)
- Government policies and the information industry—the balance of interests (1987) (1)
- Book Reviews : Ole HARBO and Leif KAJBERG, Theory and appli cation of information research. Proceedings of the Second International Research Forum on Informa tion Science, 3-6 August 1977, Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen (Mansell, London, 1980), ISBN 0-7201-1515-2 (1981) (1)
- Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy. Lewis M. Branscomb (1995) (1)
- Nationally co-ordinated library promotion (1981) (1)
- Evaluating the Work of Judges (2014) (1)
- Strategic Information Management (1990) (1)
- Chapter 11 – University of Padua (2016) (0)
- Bibliometrics and epidemiology: a research note (1989) (0)
- Special libraries: Increasing the information edge: Griffiths, José-Marie and Donald W. King. Washington, D.C.: Special Libraries Association, 1993. $30 (Member); $37.50 (Non-members). xiv, 197pp. ISBN 0-87111-414-3. (1994) (0)
- Chapter 1 – Competitive Edge (1999) (0)
- Introduction (2011) (0)
- Information research and productivity (1986) (0)
- Prototype identification using a knowledge-base management system (1985) (0)
- The interaction of work and technology: the influence of F. W. Taylor and H. Braverman (2019) (0)
- Reviews : White, H S. Managing the special library: strategies for success within the larger organization. London, Knowledge Industry Publications, 1984. vii, 152 pp. ISBN 0 86729 087 0 (1985) (0)
- Social informatics: A rubric with an identity crisis? (2005) (0)
- The ties that (no longer) bind (2015) (0)
- The common market for information: Proceedings of the annual conference of the Institute of Information Scientists, June 1992, Bedford: M. Blake (Ed.). Taylor Graham, London (1992). 121 pp., ISBN 0-947568-56-5 (1994) (0)
- Honoris causa (2002) (0)
- The Economics of Information in the 1990s. Jana Varlejs (1995) (0)
- Introduction (2007) (0)
- The rhetoric of promise: advertising in the information industry (1988) (0)
- 2006 Award of Merit acceptance speech (2008) (0)
- Peeking Behind the Covers of ARIST (2005) (0)
- Preface and introduction (2005) (0)
- Abstracts (1990) (0)
- Proceedings of the international seminar on Information resource management: concepts, strategies, applications (1989) (0)
- Innovation in information services (1989) (0)
- Chapter 9 – Heidelberg University (2016) (0)
- Chapter 8 – University of Coimbra (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : Feeney, M. and Merry, K. (eds) Information technology and the research process (1991) (0)
- Reports from the Schools (1989) (0)
- A library science research reader and bibliographic guide: Charles H. Busha (editor). Littleton, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1981. 169pp. ISBN 0 87287 237 8. £20.25 (1984) (0)
- Canonicity (2013) (0)
- Value Added Reselling and Public Domain Data. (1989) (0)
- Marketing for libraries and information agencies (D.E. Weingand, ed.) (1985) (0)
- Information professionals in industrialised countries (1991) (0)
- Chapter 5 – University of Oxford (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2008) (0)
- Communication and delivery systems for Librarians: R Adams (1990) (0)
- Beethoven vs. Bieber: on the meaningfulness of (alt)metrics (2014) (0)
- International Calendar (1987) (0)
- net_condition: art and global media. P.Weibel, and T. Druckrey (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2001) (2002) (0)
- The knowledge industries : levers of economic and social development in the 1990s : proceedings of an international conference held at the Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 29 May- 3 June 1989 (1990) (0)
- Introduction (2006) (0)
- Chapter 10 – University of Bologna (2016) (0)
- Intelligence, terrorism, and national security : National intelligence (2005) (0)
- Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2006 (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology) (2005) (0)
- Catalogue non-users : their characteristics and attitudes (1978) (0)
- End of an era (2009) (0)
- Introduction (2005) (0)
- Book Reviews : Rao, Ravichandra I.K. (ed.) Informetrics - 91: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Bibliometrics, 9-12 August 1991, Bangalore. 1993, Bangalore: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 577 pp, no price, no ISBN (1993) (0)
- Brief Communication. From Victorian visiting card to vCard: the evolution of a communicative genre (2003) (0)
- Peer Review (2013) (0)
- Review Article (2002) (0)
- Book review: The control revolution: Technological and economic origins of the information society (1987) (0)
- Corporate citizenship and monopolistic practices in the information industry: a study of IBM (1988) (0)
- Introduction (2004) (0)
- Informationsmanagement in Wissenschaft und Forschung / Information Management in Science and Research (1990) (0)
- The transition years (1983) (0)
- Government and research: the Rothschild experiment in a government department: M. Kogan and M. Henkel., London: Heinemann, 1983. 196 pp. ISBN 0 435 82508 9 (1984) (0)
- Volume Information (1999) (0)
- Changing of the guard (2009) (0)
- Pornography Online (2014) (0)
- Brian Vickery: An appreciation (2010) (0)
- Chapter 4 – University of Edinburgh (2016) (0)
- Book reviewThe control revolution: Technological and economic origins of the information society : J.A. Beniger. London: Harvard University Press, 1986. x + 493 pp. ISBN 0674 169859. £21.25 (1987) (0)
- Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace, by Gregory J. Rattray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ix + 517 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-262-18209-2. (2003) (0)
- Introduction (2010) (0)
- Chapter 1 – Introduction: Lasting Legacies (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2003) (0)
- Chapter 2 – University of St Andrews (2016) (0)
- Globalisation in the information and communications industries (1989) (0)
- Chapter 7 – Leiden University (2016) (0)
- Chapter 6 – University of Salamanca (2016) (0)
- Citation gamesmanship: testing for evidence of ego bias in peer review (2012) (0)
- Information Policies: A Sourcebook. Ian Rowlands, Sandra Vogel (1992) (0)
- Anatomy of innovation : an analysis of innovation in the information services sector (1987) (0)
- Women's studies: a bibliometric profile of the formative years. (1997) (0)
- Marketing: principios y práctica (1988) (0)
- Letter from America (Pipe Dreams) (1998) (0)
- Effective library and information centre management (J. Bryson) (1991) (0)
- Introduction (2009) (0)
- Reviews : White, H S (ed.). Education for professional librarians. London, Know ledge Industry Publications Inc., 1986. xii, 287 pp. $28.50. ISBN 0 96729 1966 (1987) (0)
- The Virtues and Vices of Virtual Life (2001) (0)
- Methods and Tools (2014) (0)
- Finding and Recommending Scholarly Articles (2014) (0)
- REVIEWS (2005) (0)
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