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2011

Ronald Rousseau (2011).Percentile rank scores are congruous indicators of relative performance, or aren't they? arxiv.org/pdf/1108.1860

 Lin Zhang, Ronald Rousseau and Wolfgang Glänzel. Document-type country profiles. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7):1403–1411, 2011.

Liming Liang & Ronald Rousseau. Non-English journals and papers in physics: bias in citations? Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 Conference (E. Noyons, P. Ngulube & J. Leta, eds.), 2011, pp. 463-473.

Yuxian Liu & Ronald Rousseau. Splines can recover dynamic information contained in discrete data. Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 Conference (E. Noyons, P. Ngulube & J. Leta, eds.), 2011, pp. 1022-1024.

Wim Haegeman & Ronald Rousseau. Assistive technology: at the crossroads of the health sciences and engineering. Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 Conference (E. Noyons, P. Ngulube & J. Leta, eds.), 2011, pp. 990-992.

Ronald Rousseau. Algebraic structures in the ego article citation network. Proceedings of the ISSI 2011 Conference (E. Noyons, P. Ngulube & J. Leta, eds.), 2011, pp. 737-741.

Xiaojun Hu, Ronald Rousseau, Jin Chen. Time series of outgrow indices. Journal of Informetrics, 5(3), 2011, 413-421

Xiaojun Hu,  Ronald Rousseau, Jin Chen. On the definition of forward and backward citation generations. Journal of Informetrics, 5(1), 2011, 27-36.

Ronald Rousseau. Comments on the modified collaborative coefficient. Scientometrics, (2011) 87:171–174.

Xia Gao, Jiancheng Guan, Ronald Rousseau. Mapping collaborative knowledge production in China using patent co-inventorship. Scientometrics, (2011) 88 (2):343–362.

Ronald Rousseau & Loet Leydesdorff. Simple arithmetic versus intuitive understanding: the case of the impact factor. ISSI Newsletter #25, Vol.7(1), 2011, 10-14. (freely available at the ISSI Website).

Ronald Rousseau and Fred Y. Ye. Subgraphs derived from the Hirsch core in undirected, unweighted networks. ISSI Newsletter, #25, Vol.7(1), 2011, 5-9. (freely available at the ISSI website)

 

2010

Liang Liming and Ronald Rousseau. Reference analysis: a view in the mirror of citation analysis. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University. Vol. 35 (spec), November 2010, p. 6-9. (Click here for a copy)

Ronald Rousseau and Xiaohun Hu. An outgrow index. Annals of Library and Information Studies, 57(2), 287-290 (2010). Special Garfield issue.

Ronald Rousseau. Ci-speed: a Hirsch-type citation speed index for a set of articles. ISSI Newsletter, 6(3), 2010 (issue 23), p. 62-65.

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Handling discrete citation data and Kao's Nobel Prize winning article in fiber optics communication (E-LIS: ID-code 18954.)

Fred Y. Ye and Ronald Rousseau. Probing the h-core: an investigation of the tail-core ratio. Scientometrics, (2010) 84(2): 431-439.

Dilruba Mahbuba and Ronald Rousseau. Scientific research in the Indian subcontinent: selected trends and indicators 1973-2007 comparing Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with India, the local giant.  Scientometrics, (2010) 84(2): 403-420.

Ronald Rousseau.Bibliographic coupling and co-citation as dual notions. In: The Janus faced scholar. A Festschrift in honour of Peter Ingwersen (Birger Larsen, editor) Special volume of the e-zine of the international society for scientometrics and informetrics. Vol. 06-S June 2010, p. 173-183. (Freely available)

Raf Guns and Ronald Rousseau. New journal impact indicators take references into account: a comparison. ISSI Newsletter 6(1), Nr 21, March 2010, p. 9-14 (freely available).

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Knowledge diffusion through publications and citations: a case study using ESI-fields as unit of diffusion. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(2), 340-351, 2010.

Ronald Rousseau, Liying Yang, Ting Yue. A discussion of Prathap's h2-index for institutional evaluation with an application in the field of HIV infection and therapy. Journal of Informetrics, 4(2), 2010, 175-184

Liming Liang and Ronald Rousseau. Measuring a journal's input rhythm based on its publication-reference matrix. Journal of Informetrics, 2010, 4(2), 201-209.

Xiaojun Hu, Ronald Rousseau and Jin Chen. In those fields where multiple authorship is the rule, the h-index should be supplemented by a role-based h-index. Journal of Information Science, 36(1), 2010, 73-85

Ronald Rousseau and Dietmar Wolfram. The ASIS&T-ISSI "metrics" pre-conference seminar and the Global Alliance. Journal of Informetrics, 2010, 4(2), 139-140.

Jinkun Wan, Pinghuan Hua, Ronald Rousseau and Xiukun Sun. The journal download immeciacy index (DII): experiences using a Chinese full-text database. Scientometrics (2010), vol. 82(3), 555-566.

Rousseau, Ronald (2010) 'Informetric Laws', Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, 1: 1, 2747 — 2754. Editor(s):  Marcia J. Bates, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;  Mary Niles Maack, University of California, Los Angeles, USA . ISBN:  9780849397127

 

2009

Xiaojun Hu and Ronald Rousseau. A comparative study of the difference in research performance in biomedical fields among selected Western and Asian countries. Scientometrics, 81(2),(2009), 475-491.

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Properties of Hirsch-type indices: the case of library classification categories. Scientometrics (2009), 79(2), 235-248.

Raf Guns and Ronald Rousseau. Real and rational variants of the h-index and the g-index. Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 2009, 64-71

Raf Guns and Ronald Rousseau. Simulating growth of the h-index .Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(2), 410- 417, 2009.

Yuxian Liu, I.K. Ravichandra Rao and R. Rousseau. Empirical series of journal h-indices: the JCR category Horticulture as a case study. Scientometrics, 80(1), 2009,  59-74.

Suzy Ramanana-Rahary, Michel Zitt and Ronald Rousseau. Aggregation properties of relative impact and other classical indicators: convexity issues and the Yule-Simpson paradox. Scientometrics, 2009, 79(2), 311-327.

Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge and Ronald Rousseau.  Influence of individual researchers' visibility on institutional impact: an example of Prathap's approach to successive h-indices. Scientometrics, 79(3), 2009, 507-516

Liang Liming and R. Rousseau. Bibliometric Characteristics of the Journal Science: Pre-Koshland, Koshland and Post-Koshland Period. Scientometrics, 80(2), (2009), 359-372.

Ronald Rousseau. Webometrics: a personal review. Bulletin of Library and Information Science (Taiwan) / Tu Shu Yu Zi Xun Xue Kan, Vol. 68, 1-11 (2009).

The Stimulate 8 Group. The Web of Knowledge versus Google Scholar: presence of non-Western countries.  ISSI Newsletter, 5(1) [issue 17], (2009), p. 3-6.

Raf Guns and Ronald Rousseau. Gauging the bridging function of nodes in a network: Q-measures for networks with a finite number of subgroups. In: ISSI 2009; 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, (Birger Larsen & Jacqueline Leta, eds.), Rio de Janeiro: BIREME & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, p. 131-142.

Dilruba Mahbuba and Ronald Rousseau. Scientific Research in the Indian Subcontinent: Comparing Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with India.  In: ISSI 2009; 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, (Birger Larsen & Jacqueline Leta, eds.), Rio de Janeiro: BIREME & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, p. 702-713.

Ping-huan Hua, Ronald Rousseau, Xiu-kun Sun, Jin-kun Wan. A download h(2)-index as a meaningful usage indicator of academic journals. In: ISSI 2009; 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, (Birger Larsen & Jacqueline Leta, eds.), Rio de Janeiro: BIREME & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, p. 587-596.

Liming Liang and Ronald Rousseau. A general approach to citation analysis and an h-Index based on the standard impact factor framework. In: ISSI 2009; 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, (Birger Larsen & Jacqueline Leta, eds.), Rio de Janeiro: BIREME & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, p. 143-153.

Leo Egghe, Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau. A relation between h-index and impact factor in the power law model. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(11), 2362-2365, 2009.

García-Zorita, Carlos; Iribarren-Maestro, Isabel; Rousseau, Ronald; and Sanz-Casado, Elias. Publication and citation inequality in the Spanish University System. In: ISSI 2009; 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, (Birger Larsen & Jacqueline Leta, eds.), Rio de Janeiro: BIREME & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, p. 931-933.

Liu Yu-xian and Ronald Rousseau. An introduction to methods for discerning and analyzing emerging trends. Studies in Science of Science.  (2009), 27(7), 994-998. ( in Chinese)

Ronald Rousseau. The most influential editorials. Published in: Celebrating Scholarly Communicating Studies. A Festschrift for Olle Persson at his 60th Birthday. ISSI Newsletter vol. 5 (S), June 2009, p. 47-53.

Ronald Rousseau. Informetrics. Library and Information Service, 53(12), 5-7 (+29), 2009.

Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge, Loet Leydesdorff, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodriguez, Ronald Rousseau, Soren W. Paris. Retrieval of very large numbers of items in the Web of Science: an exercise to develop accurate search strategies. El Professional de la Información, 18(5), 555-559, 2009

Ronald Rousseau. What does the Web of Science five-year synchronous impact factor have to offer? Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science (CJLIS), Vol. 2(3) 2009, 1-7.

The STIMULATE 9 Group. The 5-year synchronous impact factor for large Journal Citation Reports subject areas. Cybermetrics, vol. 13, 2009, http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v13i1p5.html

Sandra Rousseau, Tom Verbeke, Ronald Rousseau, Evaluating environmental and resource economics journals: a TOP-curve approach. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2009, 3 (2), 270-287. doi:10.1093/reep/REP002

Ronald Rousseau. University rankings and the Van Parijs typology. Zambia Library Association Journal, 24(1-2), 37- 43 (2009)

 

2008

R. Rousseau & BH. Jin. The age-dependent h-type AR²-index: basic properties and a case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(14), 2305-2311, 2008.

R. Rousseau. Woeginger's axiomatization of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h(2)-index and the R2-index. Journal of Informetrics, 2, 335-340.

Fred Y. Ye and Ronald Rousseau. The power law model and total career h-index sequences. Journal of Informetrics, 2, (2008) 288-297.

Liang Liming and Ronald Rousseau. Derived P-C Matrices and Expanded R-cluster Indicators for Measuring the Evolutionary Rhythm of Science. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information (Qingbao Xuebao), 27(6), 932-939, 2008.

Jing-chun Chai, Ping-huan Hua, Ronald Rousseau and Jin-kun Wan.  The adapted pure h-index. Proceedings of WIS 2008, Berlin. Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting (H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann, eds.).  Open Access.

Dilruba Mahbuba and R. Rousseau. Scientific research in Bangladesh and a comparison with India and Pakistan. Proceedings WIS 2008, Berlin.Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting (H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann, eds.).  Open Access.

R. Rousseau. Reflections on recent developments of the h-index and h-type indices. Proceedings WIS 2008, Berlin.Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting (H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann, eds.).  Open Access.

+ COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 2(1), 2008, 1-8.

Ronald Rousseau, Raf Guns and Yuxian Liu. The h-index of a conglomerate. Cybermetrics, 2008, vol.12, Issue 1, Paper 2

Xiu-fang Wu, Qiang Fu and Ronald Rousseau. On indexing in the Web of Science and predicting journal impact factor. Journal of Zhejiang University Science B, 2008, 9(7), 582-590.

YX Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Definitions of time series in citation analysis with special attention to the h-index . Journal of Informetrics, 2(3), 2008, 202-210

R. Rousseau & Fred Y. Ye. A proposal for a dynamic h-type index . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11), 2008, 1853-1855.

Ronald Rousseau and Lin Zhang. Betweenness centrality and Q-measures in directed valued networks. Scientometrics 75(3), 2008, 575-590.

Liming Liang & R. Rousseau. Yield sequences as journal attractivity indicators: payback times for Science and Nature. Journal of Documentation, 64(2), 2008 , 229-245

Leo Egghe, Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau. Fundamental properties of rhythm sequences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(9), 1469-1478, 2008.

R. Rousseau.Triad or Tetrad: another representation. ISSI Newsletter, 4(1), 2008, p. 5-7

The KNUDOP Search Group. Podunk Effect. ISSI Newsletter, 4(2), 2008, p.23

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. An h-index weighted by citation impact. Information Processing and Management, 44(2), 2008, 770-780.

Lixin Chen & R. Rousseau. Q-measures for binary divided networks: bridges between German and English institutes in publications of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Scientometrics: 74(1)  (2008), 57-69.

R. Rousseau. Publication and citation analysis as a tool for information retrieval. In: Schubert Foo & Dion H. Goh (eds.) Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web effectively. Chapter 13, p. 252-267

Ronald Rousseau. Recent developments related to the h-index: 2007-2008. Science Focus, 2008, 3(3), 19-24 (in Chinese)

2007

Liming Liang and Ronald Rousseau. R-cluster indicators for measuring the evolutionary rhythm of science based on a general p-c matrix. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information (Qingbao Xuebao), 26(6), 2007, 877- 885.

Jin, Bihui and Rousseau, R. R zhi shu, AR zhi shu: h zhi shu gong neng kuo zhan de bu chong zhi biao (R-index and AR-index: complementing indicators to h-index).Science Focus, 2(3), 1- 8 (2007)

Bihui Jin, Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau & Leo Egghe. The R- and AR-indices: complementing the h-index. Chinese Science Bulletin , 52(6), 855-863, 2007.

L. Egghe, R. Rousseau and S. Rousseau. TOP-curves. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(6), 777-785, 2007.

L. Liang and R. Rousseau. Transformations of basic publication-citation matrices. Journal of Informetrics, 1 (2007), 249-255

Ronald Rousseau. Cha-cha-cha in informetrics. ISSI Newsletter.3(3), p.43-45, 2007

Liu Yuxian and R. Rousseau. Hirsch-type  indices and library management: the case of Tongji University Library. In Proceedings of ISSI 2007 (Torres-Salinas & Moed, eds). Madrid: CINDOC-CSIC, pp. 514-522.

Suzy Ramanana-Rahary, Michel Zitt, Ronald Rousseau. Aggregation properties of relative impact and other classical indicators: convexity issues and the Yule-Simpson paradox. In Proceedings of ISSI 2007 (Torres-Salinas & Moed, eds). Madrid: CINDOC-CSIC, pp.643-654

Bihui Jin, Ronald Rouseau, Richard P. Suttmeier and Cong Cao. The role of ethnic ties in international collaboration: the Overseas Chinese Phenomenon. In Proceedings of ISSI 2007 (Torres-Salinas & Moed, eds). Madrid: CINDOC-CSIC, pp.427-436.

Gwendolyn Rogge and Ronald Rousseau. Is the European Web British or American? In Proceedings of ISSI 2007 (Torres-Salinas & Moed, eds). Madrid: CINDOC-CSIC, pp.928-929.

R. Rousseau. On Egghe's construction of Lorenz curves. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(10), 2007, 1551-1552.

R. Rousseau. The influence of missing publications on the h-index. Journal of Informetrics, 1(1) 2007, 2-7

R. Rousseau. Hungary - and Tibor Braun - on top. In: The multidimensional world of Tibor Braun, (Glänzel, ed.) ISSI (2007), p. 25-28.

The STIMULATE 6 Group. The Hirsch index applied to topics of interest to developing countries. First Monday, 12(2), 2007

 

 

2006

Steven Van Impe & Ronald Rousseau. Web-to-print citations and the Humanities. Information - Wissenschaft und Praxis, 57 (2006), 422-426.

L. Egghe & R. Rousseau. An informetric model for the Hirsch-index. Scientometrics, 69(1), 2006, 121-129.

R. Rousseau. New developments related to the Hirsch index. Science Focus, 1(4), p..23-25, 2006. (in Chinese).  English version available at: E-LIS: code 6376

Liming Liang, R. Rousseau & Fei Shi. A rhythm indicator for science and the rhythm of Science. Scientometrics. 2006, 68(3) , 535-544

Bihui Jin, Ronald Rousseau & Xiaoxing Sun. Key Labs and Open Labs in the Chinese Scientific Research System. Their role in the national and international scientific arena. Scientometrics, 67(1), 2006, 3-14

R. Rousseau. Timelines in citation research. JASIST, 57(10), 1404-1405, 2006.

R. Rousseau & Sandra Rousseau. Remarks concerning the Liberman-Wolf bonding number. Scientometrics, 67(2), (2006), 167-173

Bihui Jin and Ronald Rousseau. Another ISI idiosyncrasy. Scientometrics, 66(3), 2006, 613-614.

R. Rousseau. Thoughts about the Stacey & Stacey measures for the quality of manual web searches. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 25(5), 580-586.

Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau. Classical retrieval and overlap measures satisfy the requirements for rankings based on a Lorenz curve. Information Processing & Management, 42 (2006) 106-120.

Ronald Rousseau. Variations on the Ten Commandments of Robert Van de Walle. ISSI Newsletter, 2(1), p. 1-2 (2006).

Ronald Rousseau. A case study: evolution of JASIS' h-index (in Chinese). Science Focus, 2006, 1(1), 16-17. English version: E-LIS: ID-code 5430.

Akihiro Asonuma, Yong Fang, Ronald Rousseau. Reflections on the age distribution of Japanese scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 57(3), 342-346, 2006; + Correction:

Ronald Rousseau. Biologist Rory Wilson proposes a referee factor. ISSI Newsletter, 2(2), 2006, 1-2

Ronald Rousseau. After the journal impact factor and the web impact factor a referee factor enters the fray: some comments. ISSI Newsletter, 2(2), 2006, 2-3

Ronald Rousseau. Preference for the own group favours largest group most. ISSI Newsletter, 2(4), 2006,  p.5

 

 

2005

Ronald Rousseau and Henry Small. Escher Staircases dwarfed.  ISSI Newsletter, 1(4), 2005, 8-10

Wolfgang Glänzel and Ronald Rousseau. Erdös distance and general collaboration distance. ISSI Newsletter, vol.1, nr. 2,(2005) p. 4-5.

The STIMULATE 4 Group. Impact of African journals in ISI databases. LIBRES, Vol.15, issue 2 (2005).

R. Rousseau. Peter Ingwersen: recipient of the 2005 Derek de Solla Price award of the journal Scientometrics. Scientometrics, 65(3), (2005), 267-269.

Ronald Rousseau. Conglomerates as a general framework for informetric research. Information Processing and Management, 41 (2005), 1360-1368.

Bihui Jin & Ronald Rousseau. China's quantitative expansion phase: exponential growth but low impact. In: Proceedings of ISSI 2005 (Ingwersen & Larsen, eds.), 362-370.

Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau & Fei Shi. The rhythm of science, the rhythm of Science. In: Proceedings of ISSI 2005 (Ingwersen & Larsen, eds.), 398-405.

Ronald Rousseau. A second-order conglomerate construction and correlation studies in a conglomerate framework.In: Proceedings of ISSI 2005 (Ingwersen & Larsen, eds.), 708-709

Ronald Rousseau. Robert Fairthorne and the empirical power laws. Journal of Documentation, 61(2), 2005, 194-205.

Ronald Rousseau. Median and percentile impact factors: a set of new indicators Scientometrics, 63(3) (2005) 431-441 [This article proposes a new set of impact factors, building on the Sombatsompop- Markpin-Premkamolnetr proposal ]

R. Rousseau. Another look at Small Worlds: one node set– two link structures. ISSI Newsletter, vol.1, nr.1, p.7, March 2005.

Tove Faber Frandsen & R. Rousseau. Article impact calculated over  arbitrary periods. Journal of the American Society of Information Science  & Technology, 56(1), 58-62, 2005.

Yan Wang, Yishan Wu, Yuntao Pan, Zheng Ma, Ronald Rousseau. Scientific  Collaboration in China as Reflected in Co-authorship. Scientometrics, 62 (2005), 183-198

Leo Egghe and R. Rousseau. Comparing partial and truncated conglomerates from a concentration theoretic point of view. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 41 (2005), 301-311.

2004

Bihui Jin, Ling Li, Ronal   Rousseau. Long-term influences of interventions in the normal development of science: China and the Cultural Revolution. Journal of the American Society  of Information Science & Technology, 2004, 55(6), 544-550.

Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau. An approach to similarity measurement of absence-presence data: the case that common zeros matter. Journal of  Information Science, 30(6), 2004, 509-519.

Bihui Jin & Ronald Rousseau. Evaluation of research performance and scientometric indicators in China. In: Handbook of quantitative science and technology research (Moed, Glanzel and Schmoch, eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic: (2004) 497-514.

Liangᅠ Liming, Liu Junwan, Rousseau Ronald. Name order patterns of graduate candidates and supervisors in Chinese publications: a case study of three major Chinese universities. Scientometrics, 61(1), 2004, 3-18.

Shengli Ren & Ronald Rousseau. The role of China's English-language scientific journals in scientific communication. Learned Publishing, 2004, 17, 99-104.

Ronald Rousseau & Mike Thelwall. Escher staircases on the World Wide Web. First Monday, 9 (6-7) June 2004. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/rousseau/

R. Rousseau and A. Zuccala. A Classification of Author Co-citations: Definitions and Search Strategies. Journal of the American Socxiety of   Information Science & Technology, 2004, 55(6), 513-529.

Weiping Yue, Concepcion S. Wilson and R. Rousseau. The immediacy index and the journal impact factor: two highly correlated derived measures. The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ La Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliotheconomie, 2004, 28(1), 33-48.

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. How to measure own-group preference? A  novel approach to a sociometric problem. Scientometrics, 59, 2004,  233-252.

Leo Egghe and R. Rousseau. A local hierarchy theory for acyclic  digraphs. Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 39 (2004), 107-117

Ronald Rousseau. Letter to the editor: comments on a paper by Garg. Scientometrics, 59(2), 2004, 277-278.

Ronald Rousseau. Loet Leydesdorff: Recipient of the 2003 Derek de Solla Price award. Scientometrics, 2004, 60, 275-277.

Per Ahlgren, Bo Jarneving, R. Rousseau. Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r. JASIST, 55(9), (2004) p.843 (letter to the editor).

Per Ahlgren, Bo Jarneving, R. Rousseau. Rejoinder: in defense of formal methods. JASIST, 55(10), (2004) p. 936 (letter to the editor).

2003

Linda Chee Yuk Chan, Bihui Jin, Ronald Rousseau, Liwen Vaughan and Yuan Yu. Newspaper coverage of SARS: a comparison among Canada, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Western Europe. Cybermetrics, 6, 2003(1), p.1.

Leo Egghe, Liming  Liang and R. Rousseau. The byline: thoughts on the distribution of author ranks  in multiauthored papers. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 38 (2003), 323-329.

Bihui Jin, Ling Li,  Ronald Rousseau. Production and productivity of Chinese scientists as a function  of their age: the period 1995-1999. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (Jiang, Rousseau, Wu: eds.) Dalian, 2003, 112-120.

Ronald Rousseau and  Alesia Zuccala. A classification of author co-citations. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (Jiang, Rousseau, Wu: eds.) Dalian, 2003, 261-270.

Per Ahlgren, Bo  Jarneving, R. Rousseau. Requirements for a cocitation similarity measure,  with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(6), 550-560,  2003

Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. Size-frequency and rank-frequency relations, power laws and  exponentials: a unified approach. Progress in Natural Science, 13(6), 478-480, 2003 (abstract)

L. Egghe and R.  Rousseau. A measure for the cohesion of weighted networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54, (2003) 193-202 (abstract)

Leo Egghe &  Ronald Rousseau. BRS-compactness in networks: theoretical considerations related to cohesion in citation graphs, collaboration networks and the  Internet. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 37(2003), 879-899.

Liang Liming, Hou Changhong, Ronald Rousseau. How do information scientists pay attention to and study modern science (2) - Information scientists' methods used to analyze science (In Chinese). [Qing bao xue jia dui ke xue de guan zhu yu jie du (2) - qing bao xue jia jie du ke xue de fang fa]. Journal of the Chinese Society  for Scientific and Technical information [Qing bao xue bao] 22(4), 387-392  (2003).

S. Ren, R. Rousseau & G. Zu. Citation statistics and related indexes of SCI should be used cautiously in Chinese research evaluation (in Chinese). Acta Editologica, 15(1), 2003, 70-72.

Jiang Guohua, Ronald Rousseau and Wu Yishan (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics. Dalian   University of Technology Press, Dalian, China, August 2003, 431 p.

2002.

Shengli Ren &  Ronald Rousseau. A citation data analysis of JCR-covered journals in geoscience. Journal of Library and Information Science (Taiwan), 28(1) (2002),  4-13.

Ronald Rousseau and Iris Vandecasteele. Modelling a router (unpublished) (pfd file)

Brendan Rousseau and Ronald Rousseau. Some ideas about the semantic web. Library and Information Service, 2002, 8, p.39-49. (pdf file)

Evelien Otte and Ronald Rousseau. Social network analysis: a powerful  strategy, also for the information sciences. Journal of Information Science, 28(6), 2002, 441-453.

Leo Egghe and R. Rousseau. A general framework for relative impact indicators. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/Revue  canadienne des sciences de l'information et de bibliotheconomie, vol. 27(1), (2002), 29-48.)

Leo Egghe and R. Rousseau. Co-citation, bibliographic coupling and a characterization of lattice citation networks. Scientometrics, 55 (2002)  349-361.

Ronald Rousseau. Journal evaluation: technical and practical issues. Library Trends, 50(3), 2002, 418-439.

Ren Shengli and Rousseau Ronald. International visibility of Chinese scientific  journals. Scientometrics, 53(3) (2002) 389-405.

Jane Russell and Ronald Rousseau. Bibliometrics and institutional evaluation. In: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Part 19.3:  Science and Technology Policy, edited by Rigas Arvantis, 2002

Ronald Rousseau. Lack of standardisation in informetric research. Comments on " Power laws of research output. Evidence for journals of economics" by Matthias Sutter and Martin G. Kocher. Scientometrics 55(2),  2002, 317-327.

Ronald Rousseau. George Kingsley Zipf: life, ideas, his law and informetrics. Glottometrics, 3, 2002, 11-18.

Leo  Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. A proposal to define a core of a scientific subject: a definition using concentration and fuzzy sets. Scientometrics, 54(1), (2002) 51-65.

Ronald Rousseau. Claude Shannon: scientist - engineer. Journal of Henan Normal University (Natural Science). 30(4), 2002, 1-8.

2001

Bihui  Jin and R. Rousseau. An introduction to the barycentre method with an application to China's mean centre of publication. Libri, 51 (2001)  225-233.

Ronald Rousseau. Concentration and evenness measures as macro-level scientometric indicators. In: Research and university evaluation (Jiang Guo-hua, ed.)  Red Flag Publishing House (2001), 72-88 (in Chinese).

Leo  Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. Symmetric and asymmetric theory of relative concentration and applications. Scientometrics, 52(2), 2001,  261-290.

Leo  Egghe and Ronald Rousseau. The core of a scientific subject: an exact  definition using concentration and fuzzy sets. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (M. Davis & C. Wilson,  eds.). Sydney:BIRG, UNSW, 2001, 147-156.

Ronald Rousseau. Evolution in time of the number of hits in keyword searches on the Internet during one year, with special attention to  the use of the word euro. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (M. Davis & C. Wilson, eds.). Sydney:BIRG, UNSW, 2001, 619-627.

Peter Ingwersen, Birger Larsen, Ronald Rousseau, Jane  Russell. The publication-citation matrix and its derived quantities. Chinese  Science Bulletin, 2001, 46(6), 524-528.

  • Chinese version: Lun wen-yin wen ju zhen ji qi tui dao de ling liang ping jia zhi biao. Kexue Tongbao: 2001, 46(8), 700-704
  • Hildrun Kretschmer and R. Rousseau. Author inflation leads to a breakdown of Lotka's law. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(8), 610-614, 2001.

Ronald Rousseau, Bihuiᅠ Jin, Ninghui Yang and Xiaomin Liu. Observations concerning  the two- and three-year synchronous impact factor, based on the Chinese Science Citation Database. Journal of Documentation, 2001, 57(3), 349-357.

Ronald Rousseau and Jin Bihui, Qi kan ping jia: ying xiang yin zi ji qi xiang guang zhi biao (Journal evaluation: impact factor and  related indicators; in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Scientific and  Technical  Periodicals, 2001, 12(1), 1-6.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau (2001). Elementary statistics for effective library and  information service management. London: ASLIB-imi. ISBN  0-8514-2451-1.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. The detection of double errors in ISBN- and ISSN-like codes. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 2001, 33, 943-955.

Yong Fang and R. Rousseau, Lattices in citation networks: an investigation into the structure of citation graphs. Scientometrics, 50(2), 2001,  273-287.

R. Rousseau, Are multi-authored articles cited more than single-authored ones? Are collaborations with authors from other countries more  cited than collaborations within the country? A case study. In: Proceedings  of the second Berlin workshop on scientometrics and informetrics. Collaboration in Science and Technology. F. Havemann, R. Roland-Dobler and H. Kretschmer (eds.) Gesellschaft furr Wissenschaftsforschung: Berlin; (2001),  p.173-176.

R. Rousseau. Review of: "The web of knowledge: a festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield". Journal of Documentation, 57, 2001, 688-690

2000

Brendan Rousseau and R. Rousseau. LOTKA: a program to fit a power law  distribution to observed frequency data. + discussion & rejoinder Cybermetrics, 4, p.4, 2000. http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v4i1p4.html

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Partial orders and measures for language preferences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(12),  1123-1130, 2000.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Aging, obsolescence, impact, growth, and utilization: definitions and relations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(11), 2000, 1004-1017

R. Rousseau. Bradford curves, cumulative rank-frequency distributions and a goodness-of-fit test. Journal of Information, Communication, and Library Science, 6(3), 2000, 1-10.

R. Rousseau. Exponential decline in the use distribution of medical journals  (letter to the editor). Journal of Documentation, 56(4), 2000, 454-455.

J. Bogaert, R. Rousseau and P. Van Hecke. Percolation as a model for informetric distributions: fragment size distribution characterised by Bradford curves. Scientometrics, 47(2), 2000, 145-157.

R. Rousseau and M. Smeyers. Output-financing at LUC. Scientometrics, 47(2), 2000, 379-387.

R. Rousseau. George Kingsley Zipf: life, ideas and recent developments of his theories. In: R&D Evaluation and Indicators (Jiang Guo-Hua, ed.)  Beijing: Red Flag Publishing House, 2000, p. 458-469. (In Chinese).

R. Rousseau. Bibliometric and econometric indicators for the evaluation of scientific institutes. In: R&D Evaluation and Indicators (Jiang  Guo-Hua, ed.) Beijing: Red Flag Publishing House, 2000, p. 16-37. (In Chinese).

L. Egghe, R. Rousseau and G. Van Hooydonk. Methods for accrediting publications to authors or countries: consequences for evaluation studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(2), 2000, 145-157.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. The influence of publication delays on the observed aging distribution of scientific literature. Journal of the American Society for  Information Science, 51(2), 2000, 158-165.

R. Rousseau. Book review of: Emerging Trends in Scientometrics (Nagpaul, Garg, Gupta, eds.).LIBRES (electronic journal), 2000, 10(2). http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre10n2/reviews.htm

1999

R. Rousseau. Daily times series of common single word searches in AltaVista and NorthernLight. Cybermetrics, 2-3,  1999, Paper 2. <http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v2i1p2.html>.

Jin Bihui, Wang Shouyang, Wang Bing, Rousseau Ronald, Wu Zhenxin, Liu Xiaomin, Zhu Xianyou. A unified method of counting international and domestic articles. Journal of Management Sciences in China, 2(3), 1999, 59-65 (in Chinese, with English abstract).

R. Rousseau. A weak goodness-of-fit test for rank-frequency distributions. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for  Scientometrics and Informetrics (C. Macias-Chapula,ed.) Universidad de Colima (Mexico), 1999, 421-430.

Sandra Rousseau and R. Rousseau. Optimal fines in libraries and documentation centres. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (C.  Macias-Chapula,ed.) Universidad de Colima (Mexico), 1999, 431-440.

B.M. Gupta and R. Rousseau. Further investigations into the first-citation process: the case of population genetics. LIBRES: Library and Information Research Electronic Journal, 9(2), 1999. http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libre9n2/

R. Rousseau. Temporal differences in self-citation rates of scientific journals. Scientometrics, 44(3), 1999, 521-531.

L. Egghe, R. Rousseau and M. Yitzhaki. The "own-language preference": measures of relative   language self-citation. Scientometrics, 45(2), 1999, 217-232.

1998

R. Rousseau. Convolutions and their applications in information science. The  Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science/ Revue canadienne des  sciences de l'information et de bibliotheconomie, 23(3), 1998, 29-47.

R. Rousseau. Indicadores bibliometricos e econometricos para a avalio de instituµes cientificas. Ciencia da Informacao, 27(2), 1998, 149-158.

R. Rousseau. Citation analysis as a theory of friction or  polluted air? Scientometrics, 43(1), 1998, 63-67.

R. Rousseau. Jaccard similarity leads to the Marczewski-Steinhaus topology in IR. Information Processing & Management, 34(1), 1998, 87-94.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. A theoretical study of recall and precision using a topological approach to information retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 34(2/3), 1998, 191-218.

Sandra Rousseau and Ronald Rousseau. The scientific wealth of nations: taking effectiveness into account. Scientometrics 42(1) 1998, 75-87

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Topological aspects of information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(13), 1998, 1144-1160.

R. Rousseau and Guido Van Hooydonk. The Harter-Nisonger proposal concerning impact  factors (letter to the editor). JASIS, 49(6), 1998, 577-578

R. Rousseau. Yearly differences between self-cited and self-citing rates of scientific journals. Book of Abstracts: Fifth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (Hinxton, Cambridge, England) June 4-6  1998, p.101-102

B.M. Gupta, Suresh Kumar and R. Rousseau. Applicability of selected probability distributions to the number of authors per article in theoretical population genetics. Scientometrics, 42(3), 1998, 325-334.

R. Rousseau. Evenness as a  descriptive parameter for department or faculty evaluation studies. In: Informatiewetenschap 1998 (wetenschappelijke bijdragen aan de Zesde Interdisciplinaire Conferentie Informatiewetenschap), red. E. deᅠ Smet,135-145.

1997

R. Rousseau. Sitations: an exploratory study. Cybermetrics, vol.1, issue 1,  1997. http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v1i1p1.html [ One of the first studies describing a power law (= Lotka's law) for the link distribution on the internet ]

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Everett and Cater's retrieval topology (letter to the editor).Journal of the American Society for Information Science,48(5),  1997, 479-480.

Francis Decroos, Kris Dierckens, Vincent Pollet, Ronald Rousseau, Hugo Tassignon, Koen Verweyen. Spectral methods for detecting periodicity in library  circulation data: a case study. Information Processing & Management,  33(3), 1997, 393-403.

R. Rousseau. The proceedings of the first and second international conferences on bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics: a data analysis. Proceeding of the sixth conference of the international society for scientometrics and informetrics, 1977, 371-380.

Sandra Rousseau and R. Rousseau. Data envelopment analysis as a tool for  constructing scientometric indicators. Scientometrics, 40(1), 1997, 45-56.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Duality in information retrieval and the hypergeometric distribution. Journal of Documentation, 53(5), 1997, 488-496.

1996

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Stochastic processes determined by a general  success-breeds-success principle. Mathematical and Computer Modelling,  23(4), 1996, 93-104.

Lillian Beltaos and Ronald Rousseau. Some remarks concerning misshelved books. JISSI  (International Journal for Scientometrics and Informetrics), 2(1), 1996,  17-20.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Amdahl's law and scientific collaboration. JISSI  (International Journal for Scientometrics and Informetrics), 2(1), 1996,  41-48.

R. Rousseau and G. Van Hooydonk. Journal production and journal impact factors. Journal of the American Society for Information Science,47(10), 1996, 775-780.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Average and global impact of a set of journals. Scientometrics, 36(1), 1996, 97-107.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Modelling multi-relational data with special attention to the average number of collaborators as a variable in informetric distributions. Information Processing and Management, 32(5), 1996, 563-571.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Averaging and globalizing quotients of informetric and scientometric data. Journal of Information Science,  22(3),1996,165-170.

R. Rousseau and E. Spinak. Do a field list of internationally visible journals and its journal impact factors  depend on the initial set of journals? A research proposal. Journal of Documentation, 52(4), 1996, 449-456.

1995

Q. Burrell and R. Rousseau. Fractional counts for authorship attribution: a numerical study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(2), 97-102, 1995

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Conferences, journals, a society: scientometrics and  informetrics come of age. JISSI: the International Journal of Scientometrics and Informetrics, 1(1), 1995, 7-13.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Sensitivity aspects of inequality measures. Information Processing and Management, 31(4), 511-523.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Generalized success-breeds-success principle leading to informetric distributions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46(6), 426-445.

R. Rousseau. Suggestions for research topics in citation and publication analysis. Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies, 32(1), 1995, 3-12.

R. Rousseau and Patrick Vandegehuchte.Books and their users: socio-cultural and linguistic aspects in an engineering school. Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies, 32, 1995, 143-150.

R. Rousseau. A scientometric study of the scientific publications of LUC (Limburgs Universitair Centrum). Period 1981-1993. Report LUC.

1994

R. Rousseau. Double exponential models for first-citation processes. Scientometrics, 30(1), 1994, 213-227

R. Rousseau. Bradford curves. Information Processing and Management, 30(2), 1994, 267-277.

R. Rousseau. The number of authors per article in library and information science can often be described by a simple probability distribution. Journal of Documentation, 50(2), 1994, 134-141

R. Rousseau. Similarities between informetrics and econometrics. Scientometrics, 30(2-3), 1994, 385-387

1993

R.Rousseau and Sandra Rousseau. The informetric distributions: a tutorial review/Les distributions informetriques: un apercu. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 18(2), 1993,51-63.

R. Rousseau. A note on maximum impact factors. In: Information as a global commodity communication, processing and use; CAIS/ACSI '93, 21st Annual conference, 11-14 July 1993; 120-125.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Evolution of information production processes and its relation to the Lorenz dominance order.Information Processing and Management, 29(4), 1993, 499-513.

R. Rousseau. Determination of a core of a bibliography. IASLIC Bulletin,   38(2), 1993, 49-57.

R. Rousseau. Measuring concentration: sampling design issues, as illustrated by the case of perfectly stratified samples.Scientometrics, 28(1), 1993, 3-14.

R. Rousseau. A table for estimating the exponent in Lotka's law. Journal of Documentation, 49(4), 1993, 409-412.

1992

R. Rousseau. Two remarks on the preceding paper by L. Egghe. Information  Processing and Management, 28, 1992, 45-51.

R. Rousseau and Q. Zhang. Zipf's data on the frequency of Chinese words revisited. Scientometrics, 24, 1992, 201-220.

M.-J.  Leemans, M. Maes, R. Rousseau and C. Ruts. The negative binomial distribution as  a trend distribution for circulation data in Flemish public libraries. Scientometrics, 25, 1992, 47-57.

R. Rousseau. Category theory and informetrics: information production processes. Scientometrics, 25, 1992, 77-87.

R. Rousseau. Concentration and diversity of availability and use in information systems: a positive reinforcement model. Journal of the American Society for  Information Science, 43, 1992, 391-395.

R. Rousseau. Why am I not cited or, Why are multi-authored papers more cited than others? Journal of Documentation, 48, 1992, 79-80.

R. Rousseau. Breakdown of the robustness property of Lotka's law: the case of adjusted counts for multiauthorship attribution. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 43, 1992, 645-647.

R. Rousseau. Pielou's axiom and N-dependent concentration measures. In: Informetrics - 91, I.K.Ravichandra Rao (ed.), Bangalore (India), 1992,  395-425.

R. Rousseau. Concentration and diversity measures: dependence on the number of  classes. BelgianJournal of Operations Research, Statistics and Computer Science, 32, 1992, 99-126.

R. Rousseau. Book review: 'Information Science in China, Rui Guozhang & P.  Dale'. Journal of Documentation, 48, 1992, 251-253.

R. Rousseau. Concentration and diversity in informetric research. Doctoral thesis, UIA, 1992.

1991

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Transfer principles and a classification of concentration measures. Journal of the American Society for information Science, 42,  1991, 479-489.

S. De  Groote, R. Rousseau and H.D.L. Vervliet. The burgundy effect in off-line union catalogs of serials. Library and Information Science Research, 13, 1991,  3-19.

R. Rousseau. Use of an existing thesaurus in a knowledge based indexing and retrieval system. Annals of Library Science and  Documentation, 38,  1991,  127-130.

R. Rousseau. Information production processes as a general framework in informetric studies. In: Informatiewetenschap 1991 (eds: G. Kempen & P. de Vroomen), 193-201.

1990

R. Rousseau. A bibliometric study of Nieuwenhuysen's bibliography of microcomputer  software for online information and documentation work. Journal of Information Science, 16, 1990, 45-50.

R. Rousseau. Relations between continuous versions of bibliometric laws. Journal of the American Society for Information  Science, 41, 1990,  197-203.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Elements of concentration theory. In: Informetrics 89/90 (L. Egghe and R. Rousseau, eds). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, 97-137.

R. Rousseau. Extended Boolean retrieval: a heuristic approach? In: SIGIR '90, 13th international conference on research and development in information  retrieval, (Jean-Luc Vidick, ed.), 495-508.

R. Rousseau and H.D.L. Vervliet. A prediction of the potential interlending demand  in the European Community. Libri, 40, 1990, 278-294.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Introduction to Informetrics. Quantitative methods in  library, Documentation and Information Science. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990,  450p.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau (editors). Informetrics 89/90. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990.

1989

R. Rousseau. Constraint propagation applied to citation analysis: an example. Information Processing & Management, 25, 1989, 721-725.

R. Rousseau. Kinematical statistics of scientific output. Part I: geographical approach. Revue Francaise de Bibliometrie, 4, 1989, 50-64.

R. Rousseau. Kinematical statistics of scientific output. Part II: standardized polygonal approach. Revue Francaise de Bibliometrie, 4, 1989, 65-77.

R. Rousseau. Merging data sets. Scientometrics, 15, 1989, 305-308.

L. Hamers, Y. Hemeryck, G. Herweyers, M. Janssen, H. Keters, R. Rousseau, A. Vanhoutte. Similarity measures in scientometric research: the Jaccard index  versus Salton's cosine formula. Information Processing & Management, 25, 1989, 315-318.

R. Rousseau. Evolution d'importantes revues pharmacologiques. Revue Francaise  de  Bibliometrie, 5, 1989, 102-117.

1988

R. Rousseau. Citation distribution of pure mathematics journals. In: Informetrics 87/88 (L. Egghe and R. Rousseau, eds), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988, 249-262.

R. Rousseau. The Fussler sampling technique. Journal of the American Society  for Information Science, 39, 1988, 421-422.

R. Rousseau. Lotka's law and its Leimkuhler representation. Library Science with a Slant to Documentation and Information Studies, 25, 1988, 150-178.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. Reflections on a deflection: a note on different causes of the Groos droop. Scientometrics, 14, 1988, 493-511.

P. Nieuwenhuysen and R. Rousseau. A quick and easy method to estimate the random effect on citation measures. Scientometrics, 13, 1988, 45-52.

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau (editors). Informetrics 87/88, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988.

1987

R. Rousseau. The nuclear zone of a Leimkuhler curve. Journal of Documentation, 43, 1987, 322-333.

R. Rousseau. The Gozinto theorem: using citations to determine influences on a  scientific publication. Scientometrics, 11, 1987, 213-225.

1986

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. A characterization of distributions which satisfy Price's law and consequences for the laws of Zipf and Mandelbrot. Journal of Information Science, 12, 1986, 193-197.

1985

R. Rousseau. On relative indexing in fuzzy retrieval systems. Information  Processing and Management, 21, 1985, 415-417.