Abstract
In this selective memoir, I share thoughts and observations about Eugene Garfield based on my knowledge of him as an inventive and creative publisher, editor, writer, and as a friend. I worked with Gene on a wide variety of projects over 30 years. My focus is on his achievements as an innovator in science communication and as an entrepreneur.
Highlights
Gene Garfield was a serial entrepreneur of the best kind—full of ideas, constantly inventive, never satisfied, pushing himself and his staff, always on the edge of bankruptcy as his ideas and ambitions got ahead of his cash flow
Gene was an unusual mixture of academic researcher and businessman, though his academic curiosity sometimes conflicted with commercial reality
I am steering clear of discussing citation indexing, which is Gene’s greatest claim to fame among information scientists
Summary
Gene Garfield was a serial entrepreneur of the best kind—full of ideas, constantly inventive, never satisfied, pushing himself and his staff, always on the edge of bankruptcy as his ideas and ambitions got ahead of his cash flow. Starting a for-profit corporation was for him the less preferred path, out of impatience and frustration and despite financial risk, Gene began to develop and publish information services for scientists. To make CC more useful, a keyword index was added in the late 1950s This included single words from every title listed in the journal contents pages. ISI developed a separate service called Automatic Subject Citation Alert (ASCA) which allowed subscribers to create an alert profile of keywords, author names, journals, and cited papers.
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