Eugene Garfield

Eugene Garfield Credit: CHF Collections, Douglas A. Lockard

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.

Life

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

Contributions

OTHER INFORMATION:

Garfield developed Current Contents, Science Citation Index and many other indexes in the sciences. He established the 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.

AWARDS:

1975 Award of Merit (ASIS); 1977: Information Science Award (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:

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

Papers

LOCATION #1: Science History Institute (Online)

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:

1. Subject Files
2. Publication and Presentation Files
3. Meeting Files
4. Trip Files
5. Anthony Cawkell Files
6. Personal Files
7. Printed Materials
8. Audio-Visual Materials
9. Electronic Storage Materials
10. Transparencies
11. Photographic Materials

SOURCE: https://archives.sciencehistory.org/repositories/3/resources/66