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Blaise Cronin is Dean and Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University. He was appointed Dean of the School of Library and Information Science in 1991. From 1985-1991, he held the Chair of Information Science and was Head of the Department of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dr. Cronin’s research interests include scholarly communication, scientometrics and collaboration in science. He has published extensively on these and related subjects. His books include The Citation Process (1984), The Scholar’s Courtesy (1995) and The Hand of Science (2005). He is Editor of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. He has extensive international experience, and has worked as a consultant for many organizations, including the World Bank, European Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, NATO and UNESCO. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, Institute of Management, Royal Society of Arts, and Library Association. Dr. Cronin holds a Ph.D. and D.S.Sc. from the Queen's University of Belfast. In 1997, he was awarded the degree Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh.