Who is involved?

Dr. Richard Klavans

Dick is Chairman and Director of SciTech Strategies, Inc., having founded the company in 1991. Between 1991 and 2000, he created maps of science for large pharmaceutical, chemical and physics-based firms. He completely rewrote the computer algorithms in 2000, and continues to modify them in order to generate the most accurate maps possible. SciTech Strategies has a strong publication record on mapping science, especially regarding the accuracy of science maps, and is considered a world leader in this area (see publications).

Kevin W. Boyack

Kevin is President of SciTech Strategies, Inc., and has been with the company since summer of 2007. Previously he spent 17 years at Sandia National Laboratories where he worked in various areas including combustion (experimental and modeling), transport processes, socio-economic war gaming, and science mapping. Since joining SciTech his work has centered on developing more accurate global maps of science. In addition, he has created algorithms to generate institution and country competency maps based on the SciTech global mapping techniques, and has done large scale comparisons of similarity approaches.

Dr. Henry Small

Anyone who knows anything about science mapping knows of Henry Small. Henry recently joined SciTech after spending over 30 years working for ISI (and its successors, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Reuters), where he was director of research services and chief scientist. He has published over 100 papers and book chapters on topics in citation analysis and science mapping. In 1987 he received the JASIS Best Paper Award and the Derek de Solla Price Medal from the journal Scientometrics, and in 1998 he received the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST). He serves on the editorial boards of JASIST, Scientometrics, and the Journal of Informetrics. Dr. Small is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and past president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Infometrics (ISSI). His current research interests include the use of co-citation contexts to understand the nature of inter-disciplinary versus intra-disciplinary science as revealed by science mapping.