Michel Zitt, born 1947. Educational background: engineer degree, PhD in management sciences, doctorat d’Etat in economics. He first worked at INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research) on invention and innovation processes, and later specialized in quantitative approaches of these processes, especially bibliometrics. In 1991 he joined the newly-founded OST (Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, devoted to S&T indicators in France) where he has been particularly involved in the development and application of science indicators. He is currently working at the IBIS scientometrics team of the Nantes LERECO/EDRA lab (INRA), and as a scientific consultant at OST.

His main interests are long-term dynamics of research systems especially internationalization mechanisms, spatial dimensions of S&T activities, and science-technology relationships. On the methodogical side, his works addressed new developments in citation and co-citation analyses, cross-citation uses for thematic classification, and journal-level measures such as internationalization. Recent or ongoing research concern SCI calibration for scientometric uses and output modeling, informetric aspects of citing and referencing, spatial distribution of S&T among EU regions, peripheral science. He has mainly published in Scientometrics, JASIS, Research Policy, and he is regularly a member of the scientific committees of the ISSI Conferences and of the Conferences on S&T Indicators, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Scientometrics.

See his reviewing report