Eugene Garfield

American information and library scientist (1925-2017) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 91

Eugene Eli Garfield was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. He helped to create Current Contents, Science Citation Index (SCI), Journal Citation Reports, and Index Chemicus, among others, and founded the magazine The Scientist.

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2017Died26 February 20172007Richard J. Bolte Sr. AwardAward1988Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAward1986John Scott AwardAward1984Derek John de Solla Price AwardAwardJohn Price Wetherill MedalAward1983Patterson-Crane AwardAward1977Herman Skolnik AwardAward1925Born16 September 1925

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