Institute for Scientific Information
The Institute for Scientific Information is an information service founded in 1956.
The Institute for Scientific Information was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1956 as Documation, Inc.; in late 1950s, changed company name to Eugene Garfield Associates - Information Engineers; in 1960, changed company name to Institute for Scientific Information; acquired by Thomson in 1992; acquired by Clarivate in 2016.
As of 1998, the Institute for Scientific Information described itself as "a database publishing company that has, for almost forty years, responded to the needs of the global research community." ISI was founded in 1958 by Dr. Eugene Garfield to provide researchers with access to current research information of the highest quality.
The ISI database covers a large number of journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, indexing complete bibliographic data, cited references, and author abstracts for every item it includes. It is the foundation upon which all of our products and services are based.
Products and services include current awareness data, retrospective citation indexes, customized alerting services, chemical information products, even specially structured sets of bibliometric data.
Others involved include Arthur W. Elias, George E. Vladutz and Herbert S. White.
Further reading
See also article on Eugene Garfield.
- The history of ISI and the work of Eugene Garfield. Clarivate. (n.d.). [1]
- About ISI. Institute for Scientific Information. (1998, January 9). [2]
- Lawlor, B. (2014). "The Institute for Scientific Information: A brief history." In L. R. McEwen & R. E. Buntrock (Eds.) The future of the history of chemical information (pp. 109-126). American Chemical Society. [https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2014-1164.ch007]
Papers
- Science History Institute. Philadelphia. Eugene Garfield Papers. Collection 2009-036.