About the Editor

Blaise Cronin is the Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has been Dean of the School of Library and Information Science for fourteen years. He is concurrently a Visiting Professor in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh. From 1985-1991 he was Professor of Information Science and Head of the Department of Information Science at the Strathclyde University Business School in Glasgow.

Professor Cronin is the author of numerous research articles, monographs, technical reports, conference papers and other publications. Much of his research focuses on scientific collaboration, scholarly communication, citation analysis, and cybermetrics—the intersection of information science and social studies of science. He has also published extensively on topics such as information warfare, information and knowledge management, marketing, and strategic intelligence.

Professor Cronin was founding editor of the Journal of Economic & Social Intelligence, and sits on many editorial boards, including Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Scientometrics, Cybermetrics and International Journal of Information Management. He has extensive international experience, having taught, conducted research, or consulted in more than 30 countries: clients have included the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, NATO, Unesco, Brazilian Ministry of Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, Chemical Abstracts Service, European Commission, British Council, Her Majesty's Treasury, Hewlett-Packard Ltd., British Library, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, and Association for Information Management.

Over the years, he has been a keynote or invited speaker at scores of conferences, nationally and internationally. Professor Cronin was a founding director of Crossaig, an electronic publishing start-up in Scotland, which was acquired in 1992 by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) in Philadelphia. For six years he was a member of ISI's strategic advisory board.

Professor Cronin was educated at Trinity College Dublin (M.A.) and the Queen's University of Belfast (Ph.D., D.S.Sc.) In 1997, he was awarded the degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., honoris causa) by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh for his scholarly contributions to information science.

Professor Cronin can be contacted at: bcronin@indiana.edu