Eugene Garfield

Eugene Garfield ( born September 16, 1925 in New York City ) is an American scientist and one of the founders of bibliometrics. He is considered a pioneer of empirical information science.

Garfield studied at Columbia University, where he made his 1949 first degree ( BS) in Chemistry, 1954 his second degree ( MS) in Library Science. In 1961 he received his PhD in linguistics specialist.

From 1955 he worked as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies and specialized in professional information, created by Current contents ( contents of relevant journals ). In an article in the prestigious journal Science (Volume 122, Number 3159, Page 108 - 111) he proposed before 1955, citations of scientific publications systematically collect and thus make Zitationszusammenhänge significantly. 1963, eight years after its fundamental idea, he introduced the first Science Citation Index ago. Already in 1960 he had the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI ) founded, whose CEO he remained until his retirement in 1992. This worked out various periodical Zitationsverzeichnisse, next to the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index ( from 1973) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index ( from 1978). Today, these directories are located under the name of the Web of Science database as before. In 1986 he was a founding editor of The Scientist, a biweekly journal for biomedical researchers.

Because of his great achievements he has been awarded numerous honorary doctorates and prizes. These include the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science ( 1975), the Patterson- Crane Award of the American Chemical Society (1983 ) and Derek de Solla Price Award John magazine Scientometrics (1984).

Works

• An algorithm for translating chemical names to molecular formulas ( Diss 1961)
• Essays of an information scientist ( 15 volumes, 1977-1993 ) online
• Citation indexing. Its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities, New York: Wiley 1979