Eugene Garfield at the Heritage Day awards in 2007
Born
Eugene Eli Garfinkle[1]
(1925-09-16)September 16, 1925
New York City
Died
February 26, 2017(2017-02-26) (aged 91)[2]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alma mater
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania
Known for
Impact factor
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Science Citation Index
Institute for Scientific Information
Awards
John Price Wetherill Medal (1984)
Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal (1984)
Alice G. Smith Lecture (2003)
Richard J. Bolte Sr. Award (2007)
Scientific career
Thesis
An algorithm for translating chemical names to molecular formulas(1961)
Website
Archived: 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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^ ab"Scientometrics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies". The Scientist. February 27, 2017. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017.
^"Founding Father of Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, Dr. Eugene Garfield Dies at 91". PR Newswire. February 27, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
^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.
^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.
^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.
^"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
^"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.
Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics...
produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by EugeneGarfield. The Science Citation Index (SCI) was officially launched in 1964,...
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popular by citators such as Shepard's Citations (1873). In 1961, EugeneGarfield's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) introduced the first citation...
distorting good scientific practices. The impact factor was devised by EugeneGarfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia...
scientometrics is mostly based on the work of Derek J. de Solla Price and EugeneGarfield. The latter created the Science Citation Index and founded the Institute...
computing tools. In the early 1960s, the Science Citation Index of EugeneGarfield and the citation network analysis of Derek John de Solla Price laid...
Academic and Government (A&G) Group ... Pendlebury, David A. (2021). "1.3 EugeneGarfield and the Institute for Scientific Information". Handbook Bibliometrics...
the phrase appeared in a college-related publication. According to EugeneGarfield, the expression first appeared in an academic context in Logan Wilson's...
Gene Garfield may refer to: Eugene K. Garfield (1936–2010), American lawyer EugeneGarfield (1925–2017), American linguist This disambiguation page lists...
Robert K. Merton in 1949, although some incorrectly attribute it to EugeneGarfield, whose work contributed to the popularization of Merton's theory. Merton...
affected the content as well. The Science Citation Index created by EugeneGarfield on the ruins of the SCITEL had a massive and lasting influence on the...
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systems (Allen Kent et al.) and the invention of the citation index by EugeneGarfield. 1950: The term "information retrieval" was coined by Calvin Mooers...
from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013. EugeneGarfield (3 February 1986). "The Loneliness Researcher Is Not so Lonely Anymore"...
Classic", Current Contents 33: 325 (August 17, 1981), in website of EugeneGarfield, Ph.D.. Accessed June 27, 2008. Side-by-side comparison of the MADRS...
the number of times the journals' articles were cited. In the 1960s, EugeneGarfield invented the impact factor, a tool for ranking and evaluating journals...
Writing about Biology, 6th ed. (2007), by Jan A. Pechenik. In 1955, EugeneGarfield proposed a bibliographic system for scientific literature, to consolidate...
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