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BIOGRAPHIES

Ronald Rousseau was born on August 14, 1949 in Antwerp, Belgium.
He is married to Myrian Salembier with whom he has three children.
Rousseau obtained a Doctoral Degree in Mathematics (University of
Leuven, 1977), the Habilitation degree in Mathematics (University of
Leuven, 1983), and a doctorate in Library and Information Science
(University of Antwerp, 1992). He received the Prize of the Belgian
Academy of Sciences (1979) for his mathematical work.
He was a full-time mathematics professor at the engineering college
KHBO (Oostende) and, over the years, taught different courses for the
Education in Library and Information Science at the University of
Antwerp (applied bibliometrics—knowledge representation—scientific
communication, and research evaluation).
Together with Leo Egghe he wrote Introduction to Informetrics (1990),
published by Elsevier. In 2001, they received the Derek De Solla Price
Award for their work in scientometrics. He is a regular visitor of Chinese
universities (with more than 50 Chinese co-authors) and became an
Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University and of Henan Normal
University. He is the former president of the International Society of
Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).
Rousseau is (co-)author of some 500 publications, most of them in
journals covered by the Web of Science, but also in local journals (India,
China) and journals for mathematics teachers (written in Dutch). His
main interest is citation analysis and diversity measurement.

Leo Egghe was born on February 10, 1952 in Beveren, Belgium. He is
married to Maria De Bock with whom he has three children.
Egghe has a Doctoral Degree in Mathematics (University of Antwerp,
1978), a Habilitation in Mathematics (University of Antwerp, 1985) and a
Ph.D. in Information Science (City University London, 1989).
Egghe was Chief Librarian at the University of Hasselt in the period
1979 2017 and Professor in Library and Information Science at the
University of Antwerp in the period 1983 2016 (teaching Information
Retrieval and Informetrics). He was also visiting professor in several insti-
tutes in the world, among which the Indian Statistical Institute in

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