Paul Wouters

Paul Wouters is director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies and professor of scientometrics at Leiden University. He is also visiting professor of Cybermetrics at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published on the history of the Science Citation Index, on scientometrics and on the way the criteria of scientific quality have been changed by citation analysis. He is particularly interested in the role of information and information technologies in the creation of new scientific and scholarly knowledge. He coordinates the European project ACUMEN http://research-acumen.eu/ on research careers and evaluation of individual researchers.