Eugene Garfield, Ph.D.

Autobiographical Essays



To Remember my Mother
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p535y1974-76.pdf

To remember my father
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p422y1977-78.pdf

How it all began: With a loan from HFC
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p359y1979-80.pdf

Perkel JM "The future of Citation Analysis : the challenge is to track a work's impact
when published in nontraditional forms" The Scientist 19(20): 24-25, October 24, 2005
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/futureofcitationanalysists102405.pdf

From Laboratory to Information Explosions ...
The Evolution of Chemical Information Services at ISI
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/cheminfoservicesy1999.html

Child Care: An Investment in the Future. Part 1. An Overview of Corporate Chfld
Care Programs and the Effects of Day Care on Young Children
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v6p031y1983.pdf

Child Care: An Investment in the Future.
Part 2. The 1S1 Caring Center
for Children and Parents
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v6p038y1983.pdf

All about ice cream or, confessions of an ice cream addict
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p020y1981-82.pdf

Catching the Wind. Part 1. Sailing.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p039y1981-82.pdf

Catching the Wind. Part 2. Boardsailing
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p045y1981-82.pdf

"How do you do it? Write all those essays I mean"
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p072y1981-82.pdf

What do you do for a living?
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p033y1979-80.pdf

The Scientist: How it all began
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v9p249y1986.pdf

"Proposal  made to National Science Foundation for a daily newspaper of science  ... Daily Scientist"
September 17 1962.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/dailyscientist1962.pdf

New Year, New Building
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p351y1979-80.pdf

What�s a Nice Boy Like You Doing in a Business Like This? or:
What It Takes to be an Information Scientist
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p032y1974-76.pdf

The Who and Why of ISI
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p033y1962-73.pdf

Illusions of Grandeur and other Disappointments
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p460y1962-73.pdf

New Year�s Greetings andnd Other Correspondence�
Keep the Spirit Bright All Year Long!
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p027y1977-78.pdf

Confessions of a Cab Driver
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p116y1977-78.pdf

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Own Book:
Essays of an Information Scientist
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p173y1977-78.pdf

Hotel Horror Stories
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p198y1977-78.pdf

To Remember my brother, Robert L. Hayne
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p213y1977-78.pdf

To remember Chauncey D. Leake.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p411y1977-78.pdf

On Routes to Immortality
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p070y1974-76.pdf

The "Other" Immortal: A memorable day with Henry E. Bliss
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p250y1974-76.pdf

Philadelphia and ISI are still celebrating the US Bicentennial
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p572y1974-76.pdf

Garfield's Axiom of Economics: "Collecting Money Ain't Easy!"
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p590y1974-76.pdf