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Portrait of Eugene Garfield — Eugene Garfield Credit: CHF Collections, Douglas A. Lockard

Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) was an American information scientist famous for developing citation indexing,

Life

A detailed timeline of Garfield's life and work is available at https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/essays/in-memoriam-dr-eugene-garfield/

Contributions

Garfield was world-famous for his development of his development of citation indexes and his leadership of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). He developed Current Contents, Science Citation Index and many other indexes.

Garfield developed the Rota Form Index which used the Hill formula index as output and processed it to as many outputs as the number of separated symbols for the production of Index Chemicus. Garfield published a paper on the Rota Form Index in 1963. He was associated with the discovery and pioneering of information science. He worked on a team with Sanford Larkey (librarian of the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins), on an early automation project.

Offices

Information Industry Association Pres. 1972-74.
ASIST President, 1999-2000; Delaware Valley Chapter President, 1970;

Selected Publications

Awards

Garfield received many awards, including multiple honorary doctorates.

ASIST Award of Merit, 1975; Best Information Science Book.
American Chemical Society Skolnik Award (ACS) for outstanding contributions to the chemical information field, 1977; Patterson-Crane Award, 1983.
Information Industry Association Hall of Fame Award.

Papers

Science History Institute, Philadelphia. Eugene Garfield Papers (2009-036). 1944-2011. 167.0 Linear Feet (115 Record Boxes, 10 Photo Album Boxes, 2 CD-ROM Boxes, 2 Film Cans, 1 Hollinger Box, and 1 Videotape Box). Professional files, personal files, papers and presentations, journal articles, publications, audio-visual materials, electronic storage materials, and photographic materials of American information scientist and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) founder Eugene Garfield. [3]
Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. (1925-2017) University of Pennsylvania. [4]

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-Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) developed the Rota Form Index which used the Hill formula index as  output and processed it to as many outputs as the number of separated symbols for the production of Index Chemicus. Garfield published a paper on the Rota Form Index in 1963. He was associated with the discovery and pioneering of information science. He worked on a team with Sanford Larkey (librarian of the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins), on an early automation project.
+'''Eugene Garfield''' (1925-2017) was an American information scientist famous for developing citation indexing,
 == Life ==
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 == Contributions ==
-'''OTHER INFORMATION:'''
+Garfield was world-famous for his development of his development of citation indexes and his leadership of the [[Institute for Scientific Information]] (ISI). He developed Current Contents, Science Citation Index and many other indexes.
+Garfield developed the Rota Form Index which used the Hill formula index as  output and processed it to as many outputs as the number of separated symbols for the production of Index Chemicus. Garfield published a paper on the Rota Form Index in 1963. He was associated with the discovery and pioneering of information science. He worked on a team with Sanford Larkey (librarian of the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins), on an early automation project.
-Garfield developed Current Contents, Science Citation Index and many other indexes in the sciences. He established the Institute for Scientific Information ([[Institute for Scientific Information|'''ISI''']]) as an international information agency. Lilley & Trice call him a "creative genius in the realm of non-conventional information systems." Lilley-Trice cite the indexes as his principal contribution. Garfield also worked at Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library Machine Indexing Project.
+=== Offices ===
+*Information Industry Association Pres. 1972-74.
+*[[ASIST]] President, 1999-2000; Delaware Valley Chapter President, 1970;
-'''AWARDS:'''
+== Selected Publications ==
-Award of Merit ('''[[American Society for Information Science|ASIS]]'''); 1977: Information Science Award ('''[[American Chemical Society|ACS]]'''); Information Industry Association Hall of Fame Award; Best Information Science Book (ASIS); Skolnik Award (ACS) for outstanding contributions to the chemical information field; 1983 Patterson-Crane Award (ACS).
-'''OFFICES:'''
+==Awards ==
+Garfield received many awards, including multiple honorary doctorates.
-Information Industry Association Pres. 1972-74; Delaware Valley Chapter of ASIS Pres. 1970; President, ASIS, 1999-2000.
+*[[ASIST]] Award of Merit, 1975; Best Information Science Book.
+*[[American Chemical Society]] Skolnik Award (ACS) for outstanding contributions to the chemical information field, 1977; Patterson-Crane Award, 1983.
+*[[Information Industry Association]] Hall of Fame Award.
-== Selected Publications ==
+== Further reading ==
+See resources available in collections listed below under Papers, especially his two oral histories in the Science History Institute collection. [https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8s45q9683] [https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dn39x231b]
 == Papers ==
-'''LOCATION #1:''' Science History Institute (Online)
+*Science History Institute, Philadelphia.  Eugene Garfield Papers (2009-036). 1944-2011. 167.0 Linear Feet (115 Record Boxes, 10 Photo Album Boxes, 2 CD-ROM Boxes, 2 Film Cans, 1 Hollinger Box, and 1 Videotape Box). Professional files, personal files, papers and presentations, journal articles, publications, audio-visual materials, electronic storage materials, and photographic materials of American information scientist and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) founder Eugene Garfield. [https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/resources/66]
+*''Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. (1925-2017)''  University of Pennsylvania. [https://wayback.archive-it.org/11742/20231107215651/http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/]
-'''DATES:''' 1987-1997
-'''INCLUDES:''' Two oral history interviews
-'''SOURCE:''' https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8s45q9683 & https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dn39x231b
-'''LOCATION #2:''' Science History Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
-'''DATES:''' 1944-2011
-'''SIZE:''' 167.0 Linear Feet (115 Record Boxes, 10 Photo Album Boxes, 2 CD-ROM Boxes, 2 Film Cans, 1 Hollinger Box, and 1 Videotape Box)
-'''INCLUDES:''' Personal papers of Eugene Garfield:
-# Subject Files
-# Publication and Presentation Files
-# Meeting Files
-# Trip Files
-# Anthony Cawkell Files
-# Personal Files
-# Printed Materials
-# Audio-Visual Materials
-# Electronic Storage Materials
-# Transparencies
-# Photographic Materials
-'''SOURCE:''' https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/resources/66