Garfield, Eugene, From the science of science to scientometrics. Visualizing the history of science with HistCite software Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ISSI, VOLS I AND II 21-26, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu

URL: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/issispain2007.pdf

Author(s): Garfield, Eugene
 
Title: From the science of science to scientometrics. Visualizing the 
history of science with HistCite software
 
Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF
 
Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
21-26, 2007
 
Language: English
 
Document Type: Article

 

Cited Reference Count: 15
 
Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics
 
Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007
 
Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN
 
Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid
 
Author Keywords: history of scientometrics; etymology of science; Derek JD 
Price; V. V. Nalimov; J. D. Bernal; science of science; HistCite; 
algorithm; historiography; bibliometrics
 
KeyWords Plus: DIMENSION
 
Abstract: While ISSI was founded in 1993, scientometrics and bibliometrics 
are now at least half a century old. Indeed, the field can be traced to 
early quantitative studies in the early 20(th) Century. In the thirties, 
it evolved to the "science of science." The publication of J. D. Bernal's 
Social Function of Science in 1939 was a key transition point but the 
field lay dormant until after World War II, when DJD Price's books Science 
Since Babylon in and Little Science, Big Science in were published in1961 
and 1963. His role as the "father of scientometrics" is clearly evident by 
using the HislCite software (www.HistCite.com ) to visualize his impact as 
well as the subsequent impact of the journal Scientometrics on the growth 
of the field. Scientometrics owes its name to V. V. Nalimov, the author of 
Naukometriya, and to Tibor Braun who adapted the neologism for the 
journal. The primordial paper on citation indexing by Garfield which 
appeared in Science 1955 became a bridge between Bernal and Price. The 
timeline for the evolution of scientometrics is demonstrated by a HistCite 
tabulation of the ranked citation index of all the 100,000 references 
cited in the 3,000 papers citing Price.
 
Addresses: Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
 
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Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI
 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM