American chemist, linguist, information scientist and publisher. Founder of Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, PA in 1960 and here publisher of, among many other things, Current Contents and Science Citation Index (from 1963).
Garfield, Eugene (1925- )
American chemist, linguist, information scientist and publisher. Founder of Institute
for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, PA in 1960 and here publisher of, among many
other things, Current Contents and Science Citation Index (from 1963).
Literature:
Cronin, B. & Atkins, H. B. (2000). The Web of Knowledge. A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. (Click for contents)
Garfield, G. (1965). Can citation indexing be automated? In Statistical Association Methods for Mechanized Documentation. Symposium Proceedings, Washington, 1964. (National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous. Publication. 269, ed by Mary E. Stevens, et al., p. 189-192). Also available on the Internet: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield/essays/V1p084y1962-73.pdf
Garfield, E. (1971). The Mystery of the Transposed Journal Lists - Wherein Bradford's Law of Scattering is generalized. According to Garfield's Law of Concentration. Current Contents, #17, Reprinted in: Essays of an Information Scientist, Vol:1, 222-223, 1962-73. Available: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p222y1962-73.pdf
Garfield, E. (1977-1991). Essays of an Information Scientist, 14 vols. Full-text access: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays.html
Garfield, E. (1979). Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology and Humanities. Philadelphia: ISI Press. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/ci/title.pdf
Garfield, E. (1980). Is Information Retrieval in the Arts and Humanities Inherently Different from that in Science. Library Quarterly, 50(1), 40-57. Available at: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v6p623y1983.pdf
Garfield, E. (1981). Introducing the ISI Atlas of Science: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1978-1980. Current Contents, (42), p.5-13. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p279y1981-82.pdf
Garfield, E. (1984). Scanners of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but information overload. Current Contents, October 29, 1984; Reprinted in his Essays of an information scientist: 1984. Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1985, 346. Available: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v7p346y1984.pdf
Garfield, E. (1988). The Encyclopedic ISI-Atlas-of-Science Launches Three new Sections: Biochemistry, Immunology, and Animal- & Plant Sciences. Current Contents, (7), 3-8. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v11p050y1988.pdf
Garfield, G. (1996) When to cite. Library Quarterly, 66(4), 449-458. Also available on the Internet: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield/papers/libquart66(4)p449y1996.pdf
Garfield, E. (2003). "Essays / Papers on "Mapping the World of Science". http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/mapping/mapping.html
Matter, G. A. & Broms, H. (1983). The myth of Garfield and citation indexing. Tidskrift för Dokumentation, 39(1), 1-8, 27. (In English).
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Eugene Garfield's homepage: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/
See also: Atlas of Science; Citation Indexing; Impact factor; Permuterm Subject Index
Generic group: Information science, biography
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 28-10-2006