Information science, biography
The
way a person selects important persons in a discipline tells indirectly
something about how that person defines the discipline. Below are given
different selections of core people in library and information science.
According to a bibliometric study by Olle Persson (1995) are the following
persons the most cited in information science in 1990:
Garfield, Eugene 37
Salton, Gerald 26
Price, Derek J de Solla 22
White, Howard S. 22
Brookes, B. C. 17
Lancaster, F. W. 17
Bookstein, A. 14
Small, H. 14
Bradford, C. S. 13
Croft, W. 11
Egghe, L. 11
Kuhn, Thomas 11
Wilson, Patrick 11
Narin, F. 10
Schubert, A. 10
Van Rijsbergen, C 10
According to Persson &
Åström (2005) are the most cited persons in information science 2001-2004:
Ingwersen, P.
Spink, A.
Saracevic, T.
VanRaan AFJ
Glanzel, W
Cronin, B
Feather & Sturges (1996) has biographical entries on the following names:
Besterman, Theodore (1904-76)
Bodley, Sir Thomas (1545-1613)
Bowers, Fredson Thayer (1905-93)
Bradford, Samuel Clement (1878-1948)
Bray, Thomas (1656-1730)
Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974)
Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
Cutter, Charles Ammie (1837-1903)
Dewey_Melvil (1857-1931)
Farradane, Jason (1906-89)
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-)
Garfield, Eugene (1925-)
Gesner, Conrad (1516-65)
Gutenberg, Johan (1395-1468)
Jenkinson, Sir Hilary (1882-1961)
Kilgour, Frewderick Gridley (1914-)
Lancaster, F. Wilfrid (1933-)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Lotka, Alfred James (1880-1949)
Luhn, Hans Peter (1896-1964)
Machlup, Fritz (1902-83)
McKerrow, Ronald Brinless (1872-1940)
McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall (1911-80)
Morel, Eugène (1869-1934)
Naudé, Gabriel (1600-53)
Otlet, Paul-Marie-Ghislain (1868-1944)
Panizzi, Sir Antony (1797-1879)
Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita (1892-1972)
Rider, Arthur Fremont (1885-1962)
Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916-)
Shera, Jesse Hauk (1903-82)
Taube, Mortimer (1910-65)
Turing, Alan Mathison (1912-54)
Urquhart, Donald John (1909-94)
Von Neumann, John (1903-57)
Wables, Douglas (1893-1978)
Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)
Zipf, George Kingsley (1902-50)
Core Concepts in Library and Information Science have the following
biographical entries (click).
Literature:
American Society for Information Science & Technology (1998): List of Information Science pioneers: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/CONTENTS.HTM
Cuadra, C. A. (1964). Identifying key contributions to information science. American Documentation, 15(4), 289-295.
Feather, J. & Sturges, P. (eds). (1996). International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. London & New York: Routledge.
Persson, O. (1995). Forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap i bibliometrisk belysning. IN: Biblioteken, kulturen och den sociala intelligensen. Aktuell forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap. Ed.: Lars Höglund. Göteborg: Valfrid. (Pp. 47-56).
Persson, O. & Åström, F. (2005). Most cited universities and authors in Library & Information Science 1990-2004. Bibliometric Notes, 7(2). http://www.umu.se/inforsk/BibliometricNotes/BN2-2005/BN2-2005.htm
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 05-11-2008