The Experts below are selected from a list of 1206 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform
Péter Jacsó - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
The scientometric portrait of Eugene Garfield through the free ResearcherID service from the Web of Science Core Collection of 67 million master records and 1.3 billion references
Scientometrics, 2018Co-Authors: Péter JacsóAbstract:Eugene Garfield came up with the idea of citation-based searching in the early 1950s, and followed it by releasing three unique databases, for the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities, as well as a yearly Journal Citations Report for the Sciences and thee Social Sciences. It took more than four decades before other database publishers started to add the cited references to their indexing/abstracting records. The Google Scholar database has been built on Garfield’s original idea, and broadly idolized as a free database. Garfield’s ultimate response -among others- was to release a database to allow the users to look up by author names or identification code. This article paints a scientometric portrait of Garfield as a tribute, demonstrating and commenting on how many times his ouvre was cited by, in which sources (processed for the Citation Indexes), when and where, from which countries and institutions, in which format.
-
The impact of Eugene Garfield through the prism of Web of Science
Annals of Library and Information Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Péter JacsóAbstract:The paper attempts to quantify the impact of the scholarly publishing activity of Dr. Eugene Garfield, the founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information, the father of citation indexing of academic literature. In the project the most current version of the Web of Science system was used with five of its component databases. It provides the most comprehensive, but still not complete, set of cited reference enhanced bibliographic records for Garfield's journal articles, conference papers, reviews, essays, commentaries, letters to the editors, and for the 6,500 citations that his publications received, and could be credited to a matching record in the master file of Web of Science. The paper also analyzes the effect of the fact that his books, book chapters, technical reports are not considered in calculating the impact measures reported by the informative Citation Report module of Web of Science, and the consequences of the approximately 7,000 "stray" and "orphan" references received by all his works that would more than double Garfield's traditionally measured impact factor, the average rate of citations per publication, for his entire ouvre. There is a short discussion about improvements that should be made in the citation matching algorithm that -in his case- distorts the distribution of citations among his more than 1,000 essays and commentaries in Current Contents, Current Comments and The Scientist for reason of an exceptional bibliographic and chronological-numerical designation pattern. Suggestions are made to make the browsing, searching, sorting, and processing of the reference entries and cited reference counts in the separate index file of cited references of Web of Science, which in his case amount to a combination of more than 13,300 matching, orphan and stray references in the more than 3,300 reference entries to his publications that were cited at least once.
Chaomei Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Eugene Garfield's scholarly impact: a scientometric review
Scientometrics, 2017Co-Authors: Chaomei ChenAbstract:The concept of citation indexing has become deeply involved in many parts of research itself and the broad environment in which research plays an integral role, ranging from research evaluation, numerous indicators, to an increasingly wider range of scientific disciplines. In this article, we pay tribute to Eugene Garfield and present a scientometric review of the intellectual assets that he brought to us. In addition, we explore the intellectual landscape that has subsequently evolved in connection to many of his ideas. We illustrate what systematic reviews of the scientific literature may reveal and what we may learn from the rich information conveyed through citation-induced patterns. The study is conducted with CiteSpace, one of many science mapping tools based on data from the Web of Science and Scopus. Without Garfield's inventions, none of these would be possible.
Svetla Baykoucheva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Eugene Garfield s ideas and legacy and their impact on the culture of research
Publications, 2019Co-Authors: Svetla BaykouchevaAbstract:Eugene Garfield advanced the theory and practice of information science and envisioned information systems that made the discovery of scientific information much more efficient. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which he founded in Philadelphia in 1960, developed innovative information products that have revolutionized science. ISI provided current scientific information to researchers all over the world by publishing the table of contents of key scientific journals in the journal Current Contents (CC). Garfield introduced the citation as a qualitative measure of academic impact and propelled the concepts of “citation indexing” and “citation linking”, paving the way for today’s search engines. He created the Science Citation Index (SCI), which raised awareness about citations; triggered the development of new disciplines (scientometrics, infometrics, webometrics); and became the foundation for building new important products such as Web of Science. The journal impact factor (IF), originally designed to select journals for the SCI, became the most widely accepted tool for measuring academic impact. Garfield actively promoted English as the international language of science and became a powerful force in the globalization of research. His ideas changed how researchers gather scientific information, communicate their findings, and advance their careers. This article looks at the impact of Garfield’s ideas and legacy on the culture of research.
-
From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science: interview with Eugene Garfield
2015Co-Authors: Svetla BaykouchevaAbstract:Abstract When creating the Science Citation Index (SCI), Eugene Garfield could not have foreseen its enormous impact his innovative ideas would have on science in decades to come. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) he founded became a hotbed for developing new innovative information products that led to what we now know as Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, and Journal Citation Reports. In his interview, Eugene Garfield talks about how he came to the idea of using citations to manage the scientific literature. He also shares his views on the (mis)use of the Journal Impact Factor in evaluating individual researchers’ work, the importance of ethical standards in scientific publishing, and the future of peer review and scholarly publishing.
-
Managing Scientific Information and Research Data - From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science
Managing Scientific Information and Research Data, 2015Co-Authors: Svetla BaykouchevaAbstract:When creating the Science Citation Index (SCI), Eugene Garfield could not have foreseen its enormous impact his innovative ideas would have on science in decades to come. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) he founded became a hotbed for developing new innovative information products that led to what we now know as Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, and Journal Citation Reports. In his interview, Eugene Garfield talks about how he came to the idea of using citations to manage the scientific literature. He also shares his views on the (mis)use of the Journal Impact Factor in evaluating individual researchers’ work, the importance of ethical standards in scientific publishing, and the future of peer review and scholarly publishing
-
What it looked like to work at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI): interview with Bonnie Lawlor
Managing Scientific Information and Research Data, 2015Co-Authors: Svetla BaykouchevaAbstract:Bonnie Lawlor has devoted 28 years of her life to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. In this interview, she vividly describes the atmosphere at ISI and what it was like to work with Eugene Garfield, the person whose name will always be associated with the Science Citation Index, the Journal Impact Factor, and the disciplines of scientometrics, bibliometrics, and information science. This interview provides a glimpse into the world of scientific information in the 1960s and the 1970s, when the enthusiasm for building new innovative information products reflected also the culture and the spirit of this epoch.
-
Interview with Eugene Garfield
2006Co-Authors: Svetla Baykoucheva, Eugene GarfieldAbstract:Svetla Baykoucheva, editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin, took this interview from Dr. Garfield by email on July 25, 2006. The interview was originally published in the Chemical Information Bulletin (Vol. 58, No.2, pp. 7-9).
Stephen J. Bensman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
Eugene Garfield, Francis Narin, and PageRank: The Theoretical Bases of the Google Search Engine.
arXiv: Information Retrieval, 2013Co-Authors: Stephen J. BensmanAbstract:This paper presents a test of the validity of using Google Scholar to evaluate the publications of researchers by comparing the premises on which its search engine, PageRank, is based, to those of Garfield's theory of citation indexing. It finds that the premises are identical and that PageRank and Garfield's theory of citation indexing validate each other.
-
The impact factor: its place in Garfield’s thought, in science evaluation, and in library collection management
Scientometrics, 2012Co-Authors: Stephen J. BensmanAbstract:This paper is a response to that of Vanclay, who proposes, that since the impact factor (IF) is so seriously flawed, Thomson Reuters should either correct the measure or—preferably—no longer publish it and restrict itself to journal certification. It is argued here that Vanclay’s analysis is itself seriously flawed, because he appears totally ignorant of the thought structure of Eugene Garfield, IF’s creator. As a result, Vanclay appears unaware of the importance of total cites and the close connection of IF with review journals, where the paradigms of science are defined. This paper’s author agrees that IF is a defective measure, analyzing its defects from the perspective of the frequency theory of probability, on which modern inferential statistics is based. However, he asserts that abandoning it would be counterproductive because of its demonstrated ability—even with its defects—to identify small important journals like review journals, giving it an important role in science evaluation and library collection management.
Loet Leydesdorff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
-
reference publication year spectroscopy rpys of Eugene Garfield s publications
arXiv: Digital Libraries, 2017Co-Authors: Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Loet LeydesdorffAbstract:Which studies, theories, and ideas have influenced Eugene Garfield's scientific work? Recently, the method reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) has been introduced, which can be used to answer this and related questions. Since then, several studies have been published dealing with the historical roots of research fields and scientists. The program CRExplorer (this http URL) was specifically developed for RPYS. In this study, we use this program to investigate the historical roots of Eugene Garfield's oeuvre.
-
Eugene Garfield and Algorithmic Historiography: Co-Words, Co-Authors, and Journal Names
2011Co-Authors: Loet LeydesdorffAbstract:Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCite ™ with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCite ™ reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, journal names, author names, and even full texts. New developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us not only to visualize these patterns at each moment of time, but also to animate them over time. Using title words, co-authors, and journal names in Garfield’s oeuvre, the method is demonstrated and further developed in this paper (and in the animation a
-
Eugene Garfield and algorithmic historiography: co-words, co-authors, and journal names
Annals of Library and Information Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Loet LeydesdorffAbstract:Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCite™ with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCite™ reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, journal names, author names, and even full texts. New developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us not only to visualize these patterns at each moment of time, but also to animate them over time. Using title words, coauthors, and journal names in Garfield’s oeuvre, the method is demonstrated and further developed in this paper (and in the animation at http://www.leydesdorff.net/Garfield/animation). The variety and substantive content of the animation enables us to write, visualize, and animate the author’s intellectual history.
-
Eugene Garfield and Algorithmic Historiography: Co-Words, Co-Authors, and Journal Names
arXiv: Digital Libraries, 2010Co-Authors: Loet LeydesdorffAbstract:Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCite^{TM} with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCite^{TM} reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, journal names, author names, and even full texts. New developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us not only to visualize these patterns at each moment of time, but also to animate them over time. Using title words, co-authors, and journal names in Garfield's oeuvre, the method is demonstrated and further developed in this paper (and in the animation at this http URL). The variety and substantive content of the animation enables us to write, visualize, and animate the author's intellectual history.
