Ian Rowlands

Research interests and expertise

Scholarly communication, bibliometrics and journal publishing

Ian Rowlands was Senior Lecturer at City University from 1993, leading the MSc Information Science course. His main teaching interests are in scholarly communication, journal publishing, bibliometrics and research methods. Before joining City, Ian worked for Pira International, a contract research organisation specialising in the printing and electronic publishing sectors and as a consultant to the European Commission on online publishing. His teaching interests are in scholarly communication, journal publishing, bibliometrics and research methods.

As a founder member and Director of CIBER, Ian has been extremely active in research in the STM journals area, developing and working on funded projects for the Wellcome Trust, the Publishers Association, the International Association of STM Publishers, Elsevier Science, Institute of Physics Publishing and a number of other information industry organisations. He has presented CIBER research findings at eight international publishing conferences over the past year and has a high visibility within the STM journals sector. Together with David Nicholas, he has made a substantial contribution to the literature in this area with a series of papers under CIBER’s Virtual Scholar banner, including a contribution to Nature. Ian was the recipient of the American Society for Information Science award for citation analysis in 1999 for work on alternatives to journal impact factors.

Qualifications

BSc, MSc, PhD(City)

Contact details

E-mail: i.rowlands @ ucl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 [7204]