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Garfield: Essays of an
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Eugene Garfield has a Ph.D. in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation was "An Algorithm for Translating Chemical Names to Molecular Formulas." He has worked as a Laboratory Chemist with Evans Research & Development Corp. and a Research Chemist at Columbia University. In 1951, Dr. Garfield began his career in scientific communication and information science when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University. The project was funded by the Army Medical Library, the predecessor of the National Library of Medicine. The goal of the project was to examine basic and applied problems of medical information retrieval, and the application of new methods to indexing the bio-medical literature. As the President & CEO of the Institute for Scientific Information, Garfield began regular publication of the Science Citation Index in 1964. The SCI soon distinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science. It was truly current while other traditional indexes were often several years behind the literature. Dr. Garfield continues to be active in scientific communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for the research professional. It reports on news and developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of scientists, and provides a unique forum for the discussion of issues important both to the research community and society. The full text is also available, free of charge, worldwide on the Internet. |
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© 1999 Eugene Garfield
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