Eugene Garfield

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]