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Ronald Rousseau

Ronald Rousseau

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
59
Citations
17074
World Ranking
2295
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ronald Rousseau is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, known for extensive work in decision sciences, with a particular focus on scientometrics and bibliometrics research. Their scholarly output spans multiple topics and fields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

The primary field of study for Rousseau is Decision Sciences, encompassing 24 publications. Their subfields of specialization include:

  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Rousseau's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Academic Publishing and Open Access
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

The scientist has published multiple papers across respected venues, with some frequently publishing outlets being:

  • Scientometrics (13 publications)
  • Journal of Informetrics (8 publications)
  • Journal of Data and Information Science (7 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (5 publications)
  • Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management (2 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rousseau include:

  • "BIBLIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES AND THEIR USE IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH," 2021, Journal of Economic Surveys
  • "Publications during COVID-19 times: An unexpected overall increase," 2023, Journal of Informetrics
  • "Naukometriya, Nalimov and Mul'chenko," 2021, Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management

Frequent collaborators in Rousseau's research include:

  • Leo Egghe
  • Gunnar Sivertsen
  • Lin Zhang
  • Xian Li
  • Xiaojun Hu

Rousseau's contributions have been recognized with a fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences:

    Evelien Otte;Ronald Rousseau

  • Introduction to Informetrics: Quantitative Methods in Library, Documentation and Information Science

    Leo Egghe;Ronald Rousseau

  • Requirements for a cocitation similarity measure, with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient

    Per Ahlgren;Bo Jarneving;Ronald Rousseau

  • The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index

    Jin BiHui;Liang LiMing;Ronald Rousseau;Leo Egghe

  • Sitations: an exploratory study

    Ronald Rousseau

  • An informetric model for the Hirsch-index

    Leo Egghe;Ronald Rousseau

  • Journal Evaluation: Technical and Practical Issues

    Ronald Rousseau

  • Methods for accrediting publications to authors or countries: consequences for evaluation studies

    Leo Egghe;Ronald Rousseau;Guido Van Hooydonk

  • Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice

    Ying Ding;Ronald Rousseau;Dietmar Wolfram

  • Diversity of references as an indicator of the interdisciplinarity of journals: Taking similarity between subject fields into account

    Lin Zhang;Lin Zhang;Ronald Rousseau;Ronald Rousseau;Wolfgang Glänzel;Wolfgang Glänzel

  • Co-citation, bibliographic coupling and a characterization of lattice citation networks

    Leo Egghe;Ronald Rousseau

  • Data Envelopment Analysis as a tool for constructing scientometric indicators

    Sandra Rousseau;Ronald Rousseau

  • Daily time series of common single word searches in AltaVista and NorthernLight

    Ronald Rousseau

  • The scientific wealth of European nations: Taking effectiveness into account

    Sandra Rousseau;Ronald Rousseau

  • An h-index weighted by citation impact

    Leo Egghe;Ronald Rousseau

  • Alternative area-perimeter ratios for measurement of 2D shape compactness of habitats

    J. Bogaert;R. Rousseau;P. Van Hecke;I. Impens

  • LOTKA: A program to fit a power law distribution to observed frequency data.

    Brendan Rousseau;Ronald Rousseau

  • Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers

    Leo Egghe;Raf Guns;Ronald Rousseau

  • International visibility of Chinese scientific journals

    Shengli Ren;Ronald Rousseau

  • Scientific collaboration in China as reflected in co-authorship

    Yan Wang;Yishan Wu;Yuntao Pan;Zheng Ma

  • Library science: Forgotten founder of bibliometrics.

    Ronald Rousseau

  • Recommending research collaborations using link prediction and random forest classifiers

    Raf Guns;Ronald Rousseau

  • Reflections on the age distribution of Japanese scientists

    Akihiro Asonuma;Yong Fang;Ronald Rousseau

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo Egghe
Leo Egghe Hasselt University
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert KU Leuven
Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam
Wenbin Liu
Wenbin Liu University of Kent
Peter Ingwersen
Peter Ingwersen University of Copenhagen
Yves Fassin
Yves Fassin Ghent University
Jianhong Luo
Jianhong Luo Zhejiang University
Robert Colebunders
Robert Colebunders University of Antwerp
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp

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