Dale Hollis Hoiberg is a
sinologist and was the
editor-in-chief of the ''
Encyclopædia Britannica
The is a general knowledge, general-knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership seven times. The 2010 version of the 15th edition, ...
'' from 1997
to 2015. He holds a
PhD degree in
Chinese literature
The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han dynasty, Han (202 ...
and began to work for ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as an index editor in 1978.
In 2010, Hoiberg co-authored a paper with Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and
Erez Lieberman Aiden entitled "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books". The paper was the first to describe the term
culturomics.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
American encyclopedists
American book editors
American sinologists
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Living people
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