Eugene Garfield

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bibliometrician human information scientist scientometrics pioneer

Eugene Garfield was an American information scientist and bibliometrician best known for pioneering citation indexing and founding the Science Citation Index and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bibliometrician → human → information scientist → scientometrics pioneer →
awardReceived	ASIS&T Award of Merit → Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal → John Price Wetherill Medal →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1925-09-16 →
dateOfDeath	2017-02-26 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → University of Pennsylvania →
employer	Institute for Scientific Information →
familyName	Garfield →
fieldOfWork	bibliometrics → citation analysis → information science → scientometrics →
founded	Current Contents → Institute for Scientific Information → Science Citation Index → The Scientist (magazine) →
fullName	Eugene Garfield →
givenName	Eugene NERFINISHED →
hasGender	male →
influenced	development of bibliometrics → research evaluation practices → scientometrics research →
knownFor	Institute for Scientific Information → Journal Impact Factor → Science Citation Index → citation indexing → impact factor →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Society for Information Science and Technology →
notableConcept	citation indexing → impact factor → journal performance metrics →
notableWork	Current Contents → Essays of an Information Scientist → Journal Citation Reports → Science Citation Index →
occupation	businessperson → information scientist → publisher →
placeOfBirth	New York City →
placeOfDeath	Philadelphia →
residence	Philadelphia →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Science Citation Index → Science Citation Index →	creator
Eugene Garfield →	fullName