Prof. R.J.W. (Robert) Tijssen
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Organisation: Centre for Science and Technology Studies
Phone: +31-(0)71-5273960
Fax: +31-(0)71-5273911
E-Mail: tijssen@cwts.leidenuniv.nl
Description:

Full professor of Science and Innovation Studies. MSc psychology, Leiden University (mathematical psychology, applied statistics), PhD in Science Studies, Leiden (1992). Member of CWTS management team. Visiting professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). 

Teaching
CWTS lecturer on a range of topics including: science indicators; research excellence; science-innovation linkages; economics of science.

Memberships
Founding coordinator of Netherlands Observatory of Science and Technology (NOWT), the producer of the government’s Science and Technology Indicators report series (www.nowt.nl); member of the editorial (advisory) boards of the international journals Research Evaluation and Scientometrics. CHERPA coordinator.

Interests and activities
His academic interests and research activities are broad, varying from research assessment methodologies, bibliometric evaluation of research performance, science indicators and university rankings, as well as studies of university-industry R&D and science-innovation linkages.

Publications 

His scientific publication output includes more than 40 research articles in variety of journals: Research Policy, Evaluation Review, Research Evaluation , Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Scientometrics, Journal of Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  
Publications (42)
Activities (12)
Research programs (2)
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Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: new analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators
Scientometrics; 2007: 303 - 327
Are we moving towards an integrated European Research Area? Some macro-level bibliometric perspectives
COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management; 2008: 19 - 25
Assessing multidisciplinary areas of science and technology: A synthetic bibliometric study of Dutch nuclear energy research
Scientometrics; 1993: 15 - 134
Benchmarking international scientific excellence: Are highly cited research papers an appropriate frame of reference?
SCIENTOMETRICS; 2002: 381 - 397
This paper introduces a citation-based 'systems approach' for analyzing the various institutional and cognitive dimensions of scientific excellence within national research systems. The methodology, covering several aggregate levels, focuses on the most highly cited research papers in the ...
Benchmarking university-industry research cooperation worldwide: performance measurements and indicators based on co-authorship data for the world's largest universities
RESEARCH EVALUATION; 2009: 13 - 24
Surprisingly, there is still no comparative information as to which universities are among the world's major providers of science-based information and services to the business sector in general, and research-active industry in particular. This paper presents the first results of statistical ...
Chinese researchers returning home: impacts of international mobility on research cooperation and scientific productivity
Scientometrics; 2008: 299 - 323
Commercialisation of corporate science and the production of research articles
2005: 223 - 249
First evidence of serious language-bias in the use of citation analysis for the evaluation of national science systems
RESEARCH EVALUATION; 2000: 155 - 156
Global and domestic utilization of industrial relevant science: patent citation analysis of science-technology interactions and knowledge flows
RESEARCH POLICY; 2001: 35 - 54
The development of science-based technologies may draw heavily on codified and tacit outputs from both domestic research bases and foreign sources. Having a view of the scientific underpinnings of these technical innovations and related knowledge diffusion and utilization processes, especially ...
How relevant are local scholarly journals in global science? A case study of South Africa
RESEARCH EVALUATION; 2006: 163 - 174
We performed a critical analysis of the South African scientific serials literature, including 'international' journals indexed by international bibliographical databases, such as Thomson Scientific's Web of Science and other citation indices, as well as 'local' journals that are processed for ...