From the Science Citation Index to the Journal Impact Factor and Web of Science

Baykoucheva, Svetla

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“…The creation of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is one of the most important events in modern science [1][2][3]. Garfield's idea of using citations in articles to index scientific literature offered a new way of collecting, analyzing, disseminating, and discovering scientific information.…”

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“…Many articles, books, and conference presentations discuss and analyze Garfield's ideas and legacy [3]. I have conducted two interviews with him [1,11], which provided information about how he came to the idea of creating the SCI and his views about the future of scientific publishing, discovery of scientific information, and measuring academic impact. The American Chemical Society (ACS) celebrated Garfield's legacy in a special presidential symposium, "Information Legacy of Eugene Garfield: From the Chicken Coop to the World Wide Web", held at the ACS Spring National Meeting in New Orleans in 2018.…”

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“…About that time, he also became interested in the idea of creating an equivalent to Shepard's Citations (a legal index for case law) for science. In an interview that this author conducted with him in 2015, Garfield described how these events led him to conceive the SCI [1]. It is strange to imagine today how one of the most important resources for science could have been created in a converted chicken coop in rural New Jersey ( Figure 2).…”

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“…Eugene Garfield [1] Eugene Garfield advanced the theory and practice of information science, raised awareness about citations and academic impact, actively promoted English as the lingua franca of science, and became a powerful force in the globalization of research. He envisioned innovative information systems that made the retrieval of scientific information much more efficient.…”

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Eugene Garfield’s Ideas and Legacy and Their Impact on the Culture of Research

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2019

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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.

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Eugene Garfield’s Ideas and Legacy and Their Impact on the Culture of Research

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“…É importante destacar que o monitoramento de desempenho de pesquisas realizadas na universidade tem aumentado nas últimas décadas (Thelwall & Wilson, 2014) e que citações são comumente utilizadas em avaliações formais e informais de acadêmicos (Baykoucheva, 2015;Cole, 2000).…”

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