Eugene Garfield

Eugene Garfield
Eugene Garfield at the Heritage Day awards in 2007
Born
Eugene Eli Garfinkle[1]

(1925-09-16)September 16, 1925
DiedFebruary 26, 2017(2017-02-26) (aged 91)[2]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
ThesisAn algorithm for translating chemical names to molecular formulas (1961)
WebsiteArchived: Garfield Library

Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017)[2][3] was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics.[4] He helped to create Current Contents, Science Citation Index (SCI), Journal Citation Reports, and Index Chemicus, among others, and founded the magazine The Scientist.[5][6][7][8]

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  2. ^ a b "Scientometrics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies". The Scientist. February 27, 2017. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "Founding Father of Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, Dr. Eugene Garfield Dies at 91". PR Newswire. February 27, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  4. ^ Garfield, Eugene, Blaise Cronin, and Helen Barsky Atkins.The Web of Knowledge: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 2000.
  5. ^ Garfield, Eugene (1955). "Citation indexes for science...". Science. 122 (3159). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 108–111. Bibcode:1955Sci...122..108G. doi:10.1126/science.122.3159.108. PMID 14385826. S2CID 5902162. The concept of the Science Citation Index is first articulated.
  6. ^ Garfield, Eugene (September 16, 2005). The Agony and the Ecstasy—The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor (PDF). International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. Chicago. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
  7. ^ "History of Citation Indexing" (Available online). Web of Science Group. October 15, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2011. Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder and now Chairman Emeritus of ISI® (now Thomson Reuters), was deeply involved in the research relating to machine generated indexes in the mid-1950s and early 1960s
  8. ^ "Fifty Years of Citation Indexing and Analysis". October 6, 2010. Archived from the original (Available online) on May 14, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2011. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1955, Eugene Garfield, Ph.D published his groundbreaking paper on citation indexing, "Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas." This innovative paper envisioned information tools that allow researchers to expedite their research process, evaluate the impact of their work, spot scientific trends, and trace the history of modern scientific thoughts.

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