Eugene Garfield | |
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![]() Eugene Garfield at the Heritage Day awards in 2007 | |
Born | Eugene Eli Garfinkle[1] September 16, 1925 |
Died | February 26, 2017[2] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | (aged 91)
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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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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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 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.