Dale Hollis Hoiberg is a
sinologist and has been the
editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica since 1997.[1] He holds a
PhD degree in
Chinese literature and began to work for Encyclopædia Britannica as an index editor in 1978.[1] 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.[2][3]