Peter Ingwersen (computer scientist)

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Peter Ingwersen (2005)

Peter Emil Rerup Ingwersen (born 1947 in Frederiksberg, Denmark ) is a Danish information scientist . He is professor emeritus at the Information Science Academy (until 2010 Danmarks Biblioteksskole ) at the University of Copenhagen .

After studying at what was then known as the Royal School of Librarianship , he worked there from 1973 as a lecturer and from 1984 as a professor. He was a visiting professor at various universities.

For a long time Peter Ingwersen dealt with cognitive and theoretical aspects of information retrieval . His current research focus is on webometry and information retrieval. In 1997 he coined the term "webometry" together with Tomas C. Almind and among other things introduced the Web Impact Factor to assess the weight of websites (basic concepts were, however, also developed by others).

In 2005 he and Howard D. White received the Derek John de Solla Price Award from Scientometrics magazine .

Fonts

  • Information retrieval interaction. Taylor Graham, 1992.
  • with Tomas C. Almind: Informetric Analyzes on the World Wide Web: methodological approaches to “webometrics”. In: Journal of Documentation. Volume 53, Issue 4, 1997, pp. 404-426.
  • with Kalervo Järvelin: The Turn. Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Springer, 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Danske store
  2. ↑ Ronald Rousseau: Peter Ingwersen: Recipient of the 2005 Derek de Solla Price Award of the journal Scientometrics , Scientometrics, Vol. 65, No. 3 (2005), pp. 267-268

See also

Infometry , scientometry

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Ingwersen, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingwersen, Peter Emil Rerup (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Frederiksberg, Denmark