Background
Garfield, Eugene was born on September 16, 1925 in New York City. Son of Ernest and Edith (Wolf) Garofano.
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Garfield, Eugene was born on September 16, 1925 in New York City. Son of Ernest and Edith (Wolf) Garofano.
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1949. Master of Science, Columbia University, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, Vrije University, Brussels, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1990. DL (honorary), Thomas Jefferson University, 1991.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Universita Di Roma Tor Vergata, 1994. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Charles University, Prague, 1995.
Inter-Services Intelligence now forms a major part of the science division of Thomson Reuters company. Garfield is responsible for many innovative bibliographic products, including Current Contents, the Science Citation Index (Service Civil International), and other citation databases, the Journal Citation Reports, and Index Chemicus. He is the founding editor and publisher of The Scientist, a news magazine for life scientists.
In 2003, the University of South Florida School of Information was honored to have him as lecturer for the Alice G. Smith Lecture.
In 2007, he launched HistCite, a bibliometric analysis and visualization software package. Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush"s famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking.
He started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955 (it was sold to Thomson Corporation in 1992). According to Garfield, ″the citation index..may help a historian to measure the influence of an article—that is, its ′impact factor′.″ The creation of the Science Citation Index made it possible to calculate impact factor, which supposedly measures the importance of scientific journals.
lieutenant led to the unexpected discovery that a few journals like Nature and Science were core for all of hard science.
The same pattern does not happen with the humanities or the social sciences. His entrepreneurial flair in having turned what was, at least at the time, an obscure and specialist metric into a highly profitable business has been noted. Garfield"s work led to the development of several Information Retrieval algorithms, like HITS and Pagerank.
Both use the structured citation between websites through hyperlinks.
The Association for Library and Information Science Education has a fund for doctoral research through an award named after Garfield.
(Book by Garfield, E.)
With Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman of the section T), Institute Information Scientists London (honorary). Member Information Industry Association (past Chairman of the Board, past president, Hall of Fame award), National Association Science Writers, Chemical Notation Association (award 1980), Society.Scholarly Public, Special Libraries Association, Authors League American, Medical library association, American Society Information Science (award of merit 1975, past president Delaware Valley chapter), American Chemical Society (Skolnick award division chemical information 1977, Patterson-Crane award 1983), Drug Information Association, Federation American Scientists.
Married Faye Byron, 1945 (divorced). 1 child, Stefan; Married Winifred Koziolek, 1955 (divorced). Children: Laura, Joshua, Thea.
Married Catheryne Stout, 1983. 1 child, Alexander Merton.