Dr. Tibor Braun
Wolfgang Glänzel
Dear Colleague,
We were deeply distressed by the news that Prof. Dr. Tibor Braun has passed away on 27 September. With his death, information science and scientometrics has lost one of its pioneers and best leaders. He has truly shaped a discipline and served its scientific community for five decades.
Tibor was also a prominent researcher and teacher in the field of analytical chemistry and thus he proved to be one of true and outstanding polymaths of the last century. By combining the two fields, chemistry and information science, he significantly contributed to the development of scientometrics to a research field on a scientific basis. Without this, scientometrics, as we know it today, would be unimaginable.
Tibor systematically contributed to the institutionalisation of scientometrics, by transforming an invisible college into a visible one. He launched one of the first institutes devoted to the field of scientometrics world-wide: The Information Science and Scientometrics Research Unit (ISSRU) in Budapest and he founded the international scientific journal “Scientometrics” in the late 1970s as its former Editor-in-Chief and served as Honorary Editor of the journal afterwards until present. He also conceived and launched the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal in the 1980s.
We had the privilege of working under Tibor’s supervision and as colleagues and co-authors for decades. We have jointly co-edited the journal Scientometrics with him over many years.
We will greatly miss an excellent teacher, colleague, and true friend.
We will publish an obituary for the next issue of Scientometrics and we are also considering to organise a memorial issue in due time to commemorate his work, life and legacy.
With warm regards,
Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert
Adian F Rochim
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