Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) was an American information
scientist and entrepreneur who revolutionised scientific communication
by founding the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1960 and
creating the Science Citation Index, the precursor to today's Web of
Science.
He pioneered the concept of citation indexing and developed the journal
impact factor, fundamentally transforming how scientific literature is
evaluated and accessed. Garfield earned a PhD in Structural Linguistics
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 and established numerous
influential bibliographic tools, including Current Contents and Journal
Citation Reports.
His visionary work on citation analysis anticipated modern information
retrieval algorithms like Google's PageRank by three decades, earning
him recognition as "the grandfather of Google". Garfield's innovations
laid the foundation for modern scientometrics and bibliometrics, making
him one of the most influential figures in 20th-century information
science
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