Re: [LIS-Forum] Eugene Garfield is no more

That's a big loss to L&IS community, globally... Let his soul rest in peace. I narrowly missed an opportunity to meet him, as he cd not make it for a pre determined appointment at his office during my Fulbright days in 1993. However his office was good enough to hand over a signed copy of his famous book. Since then, I developed a passion for "Citation Analysis'. Hundreds and thousands of thesis & dissertations must have been done on this tool / technique in our L&IS schools in the last few decades... so we shd salute this great scientist, thinker and innovator ! As old timers would remember, his publication " Current Contents" use to be the must have CAS tool in all major libraries, be it science, arts or social sciences. It use to announce " Citation Classic " awards for those authors whose article gets about 400+ citations and if I remember correctly, Prof CNR Rao was one of the first Indian scientist to receive it. Prakash Bp Prakash Global Head, Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: bp.prakash@tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________ Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Consulting ____________________________________________ From: Ishwar Goudar To: lis-forum Date: 02/28/2017 08:13 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Eugene Garfield is no more Sent by: lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Professionals, Pioneer of Scientometrics and founder of ISI, Philadelphia passed away. I remember his product Current Contents and series of "Essays of an Information Scientist". I had the opportunity of meeting him and getting his autograph on his book Citation Indexing. May his soul rest in peace. http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/48636/scientometrics-pioneer-eugene-... -- "Access E-Resources for Academic and Research Excellence" *- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -* Dr. I.R.N. Goudar - Adjunct Professor, Mangalore University - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser Bangalore University Library, BANGALORE - 560056 - Ex. Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, UoM, Mysore - Ex. Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST, NAL, Bangalore - Ex. Dy Librarian, IITM, Chennai - Ex. Scientist (Information), IICT, Hyderabad - Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Michigan and Columbia Univ, USA (1995-96) - British Council Scholar (1982-83) E-mail: goudarishwar@gmail.com Tel: 080-23215510 Mob: 91+9611165781 (If not reachable pl try land line) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.