Progress Toward Gender Equality in Research & Innovation - 2024 Review

Nicolien van der Linden is Vice President, Research Analytics. The global Research Analytics team is responsible for conducting research assessment studies for the Academic, Governmental, and Corporate market segments in support of research performance evaluation, research strategy, research delivery, and national assessments. 

Nicolien holds an MSc in Immunology from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), an MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Basel (Switzerland), and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University (the Netherlands). She has 4 years of experience conducting molecular biology research in the pharmaceutical industry in Basel. In her three decades at Elsevier, she has held various senior management roles in publishing, product development, marketing communications, operations, business development, and research analytics working from Oxford, New York, and Amsterdam. 

Her diverse background has provided her with extensive insights and market knowledge of the information and analytics industry. 

Elisabeth Browning, Senior Editor for Analytical and Data Services, helps to ensure that reports and written materials are clear, concise, and accurate, as well as contributing writing and analysis. She holds a bachelor of arts in comparative literature from Princeton University, a master of arts in writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a master of library and information science from the University of Maryland. She brings to her work a broad background in writing, editing, and communications. Before joining Elsevier in 2022, she was a staff editor at Merck, where she edited highly technical material for the Merck Manuals, a comprehensive global medical reference. As the communications manager for a grantmaking childhood cancer charity, she created and edited promotional content and donor communications. She has coached writers as a developmental editor and has taught writing at the university level. She is based in Philadelphia. 

Guillaume Roberge, Senior Data Analyst in Analytics and Data Services at Elsevier, has been involved in more than 150 bibliometrics projects, for which he produced bibliometric indicators and helped develop new indicators, as well as produced reports and presentations. Since starting at Science-Metrix in 2010, he has been the lead analyst on many bibliometric projects and studies related to patent and trademark publications, developing expertise with multiple databases, including PATSTAT and PatentsView. For the past decade, he has been lead or co-lead analyst for an ongoing project with SRI International for the preparation of bibliometric and technometric data for the U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators 2016–2024. He also acted for 2 years as regional team lead for North America in the data science branch of Analytics and Data Services, leading efforts related to the team’s AWS and Databricks infrastructures and data pipelines.

He holds an MSc and a BSc in Physics, both from the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. The professors of the University’s Physics Department awarded him the Fernand-Séguin medal for his bachelor’s degree, awarded annually to the student who stands out for the excellence of their performance. Mr. Roberge is a lifetime member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).