Eugene Garfield, Ph.D.

Interviews:



Web of Stories:  (Audio)
1.        Family History  4 minutes 14 seconds
2.        My family and my relationship with my father  6 minutes 7 seconds
3.        Childhood memories  5 minutes 26 seconds
4.        Moving to the West Bronx and my stepfather  5 minutes 50 seconds
5.        Growing up across the street from the New York Public Library  2 minutes 12 seconds
6.        High School  5 minutes 26 seconds
7.        My mother  5 minutes 41 seconds
8.        My uncle Sam  5 minutes 27 seconds
9.        Learning to play the clarinet and the piano  7 minutes 8 seconds
10.      Working before University 3 minutes 6 seconds
11.      Learning to type and clerking in the army  2 minutes 58 seconds
12.      Getting drafted 3 minutes 43 seconds
13.      Army training and getting an ulcer 4 minutes 9 seconds
14.      Columbia and Berkeley 2 minutes 22 seconds
15.      My first wife leaves me and coping as a single parent  7 minutes 18 seconds
16.      The origins of Eugene Garfield Associates  8 minutes 5 seconds
17.      Jobs after graduation and working for Louis P. Hammett  6 minutes 51 seconds
18.      Going to an American Chemical Society meeting and getting a new job  8 minutes 3 seconds
19.      Working at the Welch Medical Library (Part 1)  5 minutes 2 seconds
20.      Working at the Welch Medical Library (Part 2)  3 minutes 52 seconds
21       Starting 'Contents in Advance' and getting sacked  2 minutes 17 seconds
22.
      "As a documentalist you  make a great career" 4 minutes 31 seconds
23.        Writing papers and going to Columbia library school  4 minutes 29 seconds
24.      Getting a job with Smith, Kline & French  3 minutes 16 seconds
25.      Discovering Shepard's Citations   6 minutes 24 seconds
26.      Getting my paper published in "Science"  2 minutes 1 second
27.      Looking after my son Stefan and getting married  3 minutes 54 seconds
28.      Early days of "Current Contents"  6 minutes 35 seconds
29.      The genesis of "Current Contents"  6 minutes 3 seconds

30.      'Index Chemicus' and completing my doctorate degree  7 minutes, 5 seconds.
31.      Handing in my dissertation  5 minutes  55 seconds
32.      A proposal for the 'Genetic Citation Index'  3 minutes
33.      The indexing project  4 minutes 3 seconds
34.      Financial problems for the 'Scientific Citation Index'  6 minutes 3 seconds  
35.      Problems starting 'The Scientist'  6 minutes 33 seconds
36.      The ups and downs of the buisness and the office atmosphere  1 minute 16 seconds
37.      The impact of scientific information systems on scientific progress  5 minutes 2 seconds
38.      Impact factors  5 minutes 33 seconds
39.      Historiographs  4 minutes 28 seconds
40.      Usefulness of citations for historians  3 minutes 45 seconds
41.      JD Bernal, politics, and science  2 minutes 28 seconds
42.      Scientometrics, JD Bernal and Joshua Lederberg  6 minutes 15 seconds
43.      Moving to Philadelphia to work for Smith, Kline & French 6 minutes 56 seconds
44.      People at Smith, Kline & French and paying back taxes
4 minutes 34 seconds
45.      My son Stefan  7 minutes 5 seconds
46.      My son Josh  7 minutes 50 seconds
47.      Job security and outsourcing  5 minutes 7 seconds
48.      Irving H Sher (Part 1)
3 minutes
49.         Irving H. Sher (Part 2)  2 minutes 38 seconds
50.      Using abstracts and changes in the company  2 minutes 49 seconds
51.      Working with the patent office and the start of 'Index Chemicus'  2 minutes 49 seconds

52.      'Index Chemicus'  1 minute 32 seconds
53.      Using molecular formula for retrieval and citations of my work  5 minutes 22 seconds
54.      Promoting 'Current Contents'; the FASEB meeting in Atlantic City 6 minutes  11 seconds
55.      Attitudes of the not for profit organisations  2 minutes 7 seconds
56.      The 1961 International Congress of Biochemists in Moscow  5 minutes 46 seconds
57.      George Vladutz and VV Nalimov  4 minutes 17 seconds
58.      Russian colleague's and travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway  6 minutes 54 seconds
59.      Eastern European readership  5 minutes  7 seconds

60.      'Citation Classics'  3 minutes 43 seconds
61.      A job offer and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania  3 minutes 6 seconds
62.      Sharing information and encyclopedists  4 minutes 43 seconds
63.      'The Atlas of Science' (part 1)  2 minutes 59 seconds
64.      'The Atlas of Science' (part 2)
  2 minutes 2 seconds
65.      Algorithmic and historiographic analysis  6 minutes, 38 seconds
66.      The future of open access and retractions in citations 5 minutes, 1 second.
67.      Duplication in research and a citator for patents  4 minutes, 40 seconds.
68.      Citing in patents and papers  5 minutes, 52 seconds.
69.      Errors and how they effect retreival   3 minutes, 1 second.
70.      The mathematics in papers today
  1 minute, 31 seconds.
71.      H-indexes and impact factors   3 minutes, 37 seconds.
72.      Communicating science  2 minutes, 55 seconds.
73.      Getting your kids into science and the role of class in science  2 minutes, 19 seconds.
74.      Interest in information science; grants and awards  8 minutes, 8 seconds.
75.      Hit lists and baseball cards for science  3 minutes, 11 seconds.
76.      The future; information Nirvana  1 minute, 47 seconds.
 
77.      The economic issues around open access  4 minutes, 37 seconds.
78.      Citations as currency  2 minutes, 24 seconds.
79.      Big science and how things are changing  6 minutes, 56 seconds.
80.      ASCA selective dissemination system
  7 minutes, 6 seconds.
81.      What scientists want  4 minutes, 42 seconds
82.      Summing up my career  3 minutes 42 seconds



The Evolution of Journal Citation Reports : An Interview with Dr. Eugene Garfield

50 Years of Citatioon Indexing : A visit with Dr. Eugene Garfield


 
Bilal, Dania  "Reminiscences, Reflections, and Flotsam: an informal conversation with Dr. Eugene Garfield"

SIS Symposium, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN.  March 23, 2011

http://160.36.161.128/UTK/Viewer/?peid=1fa582f53c4347458858f0106c7797fe


Ford, B. Meyers "Society for Scholarly Publishing News interviews Eugene Garfield" January 17, 2008.

Brynko B.  "An Interview with Eugene Garfield - A Lifetime of Achievement and Still Going Strong" Information Today 24(1), p.21, January 2007

Baykoucheva S. "Interview with Eugene GarfieldChemical Information Bulletin 58(2): 7-9 July 2006.

Garfield E. Interview : "Scientist, Inventor, Visionary: Chatting with Dr. Eugene Garfield" KnowledgeLink Newsletter, April 2006. "http://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2006-03/8318091/#

Hopkins, Karen "Most Highly Cited - At 80, ISI and The Scientist founder Eugene Garfield isn't quite finished improving information analysis" The Scientist  19(20):22 October 24, 2005.

Hane, Paula J. "Eugene Garfield Turns 80" Interview published in  Information Today 22(9): 24, October 2005.

Garfield E,  "The meaning of the Impact Factor" Interview published in International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology  (Revista Internacional de Psicologia Clinica y de la Salud) 3(2): 363-369, 2003.
No:501

Interview with Stock W.G. "Citation Consciousness" an Interview with Eugene Garfield, Chairman Emeritus of ISI, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Password, p.22-25, June 2002.

Interview by Paula J. Hane, "Eugene Garfield celebrates a Birthday and a Career: ISI Founder discusses the state of information science, scientific publishing, and more" Information Today, 17(10) November 2000

Interview with Dr. Eugene Garfield by Bea Caraway, April 1999.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/beacarawayinterviewy1999.html

Indepth Interview: An Interview with Dr. Eugene Garfield, Ph.D.
by Dr. Chungji Kim
Medical Writing, 8(1), 1999
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/medicalwritingv8(1)1999.html

Interview by Istvan Hargittai - Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield
Chemical Intelligencer, p.26-31, October 1999
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/chemicalintelligencerp26y1999.pdf

Interview by Robert V. Williams of Chemical Heritage Foundation on July 29, 1997, p.1-104.
(Full transcript of interview)

Institute of Information Scientists - An interview with Dr Eugene Garfield
Inform (Institute of Information Scientists) #200, p.5-6, December 1997
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/iisinterviewy1997.html

ORAL HISTORY -  Transcript of an Interview Conducted by  Arnold Thackray  and Jeffrey L. Sturchio at the
Institute for Scientific Information  Philadelphia, PA  on 16 November 1987, p.1-39.
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/oralhistory/interview.html

Bruce E. Beans, "The Granddaddy of Data" Philadelphia Magazine, p.67-71, April 1986
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/philamagp67y1986.pdf