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Bangalore, India several times. He coordinated development projects in
information science in Kenya in the 1990s. Since 2017 he is retired.
Together with Rousseau he organized the first ISSI Conference at
LUC, Belgium in 1987, and wrote Introduction to Informetrics, published by
Elsevier. In 2001 they received the Derek De Solla Price Award for their
work in scientometrics.
Egghe is (co-)author of almost 300 scientific publications, most of
them in journals covered by the Web of Science. Among these are five
books. He invented the g-index in 2006 (a generalization of the h-index)
in an article in the journal Scientometrics, which is, at this date (2017) the
most cited article in this journal. His main interest is the mathematical
development of the theory of the Law of Lotka which resulted in a book
on this Law in 2005, published by Elsevier.
In 2007, Egghe became the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of Informetrics (Elsevier).

Raf Guns was born on December 15, 1979 in Turnhout, Belgium. He is
married to Caroline Van de Velde with whom he has three children.
Guns has a Master’s Degree in Germanic Philology (University of
Leuven, 2001) and in Library and Information Science (University of
Antwerp, 2005). He obtained his Ph.D. in Library and Information
Science (University of Antwerp, 2012) under the supervision of Ronald
Rousseau.
He has worked for the Library and Information Science program at
the University of Antwerp in various functions, including as coordinator,
teaching assistant, doctor-assistant, and lecturer in ICT and knowledge
organization. Since October 2015, he works as coordinator of the
Antwerp branch of the Flemish Center for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM)
and as a research administrator at the University of Antwerp’s department
of research and innovation.
Guns is (co-)author of about 35 scientific publications, mostly in jour-
nals that are indexed in Web of Science. In 2013, he was awarded the
Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Since 2015, he
has served as an editorial board member of the Journal of Informetrics.