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 seconds24. 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 seconds32. 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 seconds45. My son Stefan 7 minutes 5 seconds46. 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 seconds62. Sharing information and encyclopedists 4 minutes 43 seconds63. '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 Garfield" Chemical 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:501Interview 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.htmlIndepth 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.htmlInterview by Istvan Hargittai - Deeds and Dreams of Eugene Garfield
Chemical Intelligencer, p.26-31, October 1999
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/chemicalintelligencerp26y1999.pdfInterview 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.htmlORAL 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.htmlBruce E. Beans, "The Granddaddy of Data" Philadelphia Magazine, p.67-71, April 1986
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/philamagp67y1986.pdf