FW: [Asis-l] FW: Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award (fwd)
Alireza Noruzi
nouruzi at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 30 18:00:04 EST 2006
Dear All,
I warmly congratulate Dr. Eugene Garfield on winning the award. You know
that Dr. Garfield has opened many doors for research and applications in
scientometrics, informetrics and bibliometrics.
Best regards,
Alireza
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Alireza Noruzi
Editor-in-Chief of Webology
On 11/30/06, Loet Leydesdorff <loet at leydesdorff.net> wrote:
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> Dear Gene,
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> Congratulations!
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> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:54:36 -0500
> From: Richard Hill <rhill at asis.org>
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> Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins the Online Information
> Lifetime Achievement Award
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> From: rodney.yancey at thomson.com [mailto:rodney.yancey at thomson.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: Richard Hill
> Subject: Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins the Online Information Lifetime
> Achievement Award
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> Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award
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> PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Scientific,
> part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider
> of information solutions to the worldwide research and business
> communities,
> today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the
> Online
> Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50
> years
> of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The
> 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal
> Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th.
>
> Often dubbed the "Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics," Dr.
> Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific
> Information (ISI(R)) - now Thomson Scientific. Garfield's career in
> scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he
> joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University,
> USA.
> The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific
> communication and information science that have distinguished Dr.
> Garfield's
> career.
>
> In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested
> in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955
> in
> the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National
> Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation
> Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of
> 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundation's (NSF)
> disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly
> publishing the Science Citation Index(R) (SCI(R)) in 1964 through the
> Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI(R) soon distinguished
> itself
> from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and
> fundamental
> innovation in scientific communication and information science.
>
> From 1961 on, Garfield's career is marked by the constant enhancement
> of
> existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new
> information tools for researchers, including Current Contents(R), plus
> citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI(R)) and arts and humanities
> (A&HCI(R)).
>
> During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing
> exponentially, Garfield's innovations have made it possible for
> researchers
> to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their
> interests.
> Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical
> research
> and the research laboratory.
>
>
>
>
> The SCI has become an important tool for navigating the scientific
> literature. With the advent of the Internet the SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI were
> integrated into the online information solution - Web of Science(R). Web
> of
> Science is the leading resource that provides seamless access to current
> and
> retrospective multidisciplinary information from the most prestigious,
> high-impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a
> unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can
> navigate
> forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines
> and
> time spans (back to 1900) to uncover all the information relevant to their
> research.
>
> Today, Web of Science is a key component of ISI Web of Knowledge(SM) -
> the ground-breaking, integrated research platform that facilitates
> discovery
> by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary
> journal,
> patent, and web content; evaluation tools; and bibliographic management
> products.
>
> At age 81, Dr. Garfield maintains a heavy schedule of invited speeches
> and presentations before high-level medical, scientific, and information
> symposia and conferences. He has been the recipient of numerous awards
> and
> recognitions. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current
> Contents
> and has also published and edited commentaries by the authors of over
> 5,000
> Citation Classics. Dr Garfield continues to be active in scientific
> communication and information science. In 1986, he founded The Scientist,
> a
> bi-weekly newspaper for research professionals. It reports on news and
> developments relevant to the professional and practical interests of
> scientists, providing a unique forum for the discussion of issues
> important
> both to the research community and society.
>
> Accepting the award, Dr. Garfield expressed his gratitude to Online
> Information, colleagues, the research and information communities,
> employees, and friends around the world who supported him throughout his
> career and inspired his significant contributions to the information
> industry. He saved his most important thanks for last to his family.
>
>
>
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> Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications
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> information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and
> development-from discovery to analysis to product development and
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