Garfield, Eugene

Garfield, Eugene. Citation Indexinglts Theory and Application in Science, Technology and Humanities. Philadelphia ISI, 1979. 

Lavoisier s program and the new chemistry were seen by many to constitute a statement of the centrality of chemistry, rather than "physics" or "natural philosophy," to the sciences as a whole. The notion of chemistry as a "central science" is found in the hierarchy of the sciences outlined by Comte in the early nineteenth century. It can be observed later in the mapping of the structure of twentieth-century science, in which the sociologist Eugene Garfield, for example, identifies the three disciplinary poles of physics, chemistry, and biomedicine, in which "chemistry functions as a critical point of integration for much of the natural sciencesa hypothesis that is supported further by the very weak connection between physics and biomedicine. "30... 

See E. Garfield, "The Obliteration Phenomenon," Current Contents, no. 51/52, 57 (22 Dec. 1975), discussed by Robert Merton in foreword to Eugene Garfield, Citation Indexing. 

Granito, Charles E. and Eugene Garfield, "Substructure Search and Correlation in the Management of Chemical Information," Naturwissenscheften, 60(4), 189-197 (1973). 

Eugene Garfield, Essays of an Information Scientist, ISI Press, Philadelphia, 1977. 

Eugene Garfield and his colleagues of the Institute of Scientific Information (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) have used their vast and growing database to rank the most highly cited works in the scientific literature. Their analyses... 

Garfield, Malin, and Small, 1978. Eugene Garfield, Morton V. Malin, and Henry Small. Citation Data as Science Indicators . In II, Elkana etal. (eds.), 1978,179-207. 

Garfield, Sher, and Torpie, 1964. Eugene Garfield, Irving H. Sher, and Richard J. Torpie. The Use of Citation Data in Writing the History of Science. Philadelphia Institute for Scientific Information. 

This Institute was created in 1960 in Philadelphia by Eugene Garfield, who quickly became famous through the publication of Current Contents. 

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