Wolfgang Joachim Emil Glänzel (born April 13, 1955) is a German statistician who is a full professor at KU Leuven, where he is also the director of the Centre for R&D Monitoring.
[1] In 1999, he and Henk Moed received the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal from the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).
[3] In that role, he took the controversial decision to withdraw an article under pressure by a commercial publisher criticized in that paper and partly owned by the publisher of his journal.
[4] Born in Frankfurt (Oder), then part of East Germany, Glänzel was educated at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and Leiden University.
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