The Web of Knowledge
A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene
Garfield
Edited by Blaise Cronin and Helen
Barsky Atkins
Dr. Eugene Garfield, the founder of ISI, devoted years
to fulfilling his dream of creating a multidisciplinary
citation index. The development of the Science Citation
Index represented a fundamental breakthrough in scientific
information retrieval. What began as a commercial product—a
unique resource for scientists, scholars, and researchers
in virtually every field of intellectual endeavor—has
evolved into a sophisticated set of conceptual tools for
understanding the dynamics of science. The concept of
citation analysis today forms the basis of much of what
is known variously as scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics,
cybermetrics, and webometrics. Garfield's invention continues
to have a profound impact on the way we think about and
study scholarly communication.
This new ASIST monograph is the first to comprehensively
address the history, theory, and practical applications
of citation analysis—a field which has grown from Garfield's
seed of an idea—and to examine its impact on scholarly
research forty years after its inception. In bringing
together the analyses, insights, and reflections of
more than thirty-five leading lights, editors Cronin
and Atkins have produced both a comprehensive survey
of citation indexing and its applications and a beautifully-realized
tribute to Eugene Garfield and his vision, in honor
of his seventy-fifth birthday.
2000/544 pp/hardbound
ISBN: 1-57387-099-4
ASIST Members $39.60 • Regular
Price $49.50
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