Dear Members, Greetings from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Please join us in celebrating the birth centenary of Dr. Eugene Garfield (1925–2017) and his pioneering contributions to the world of scientific information. The event will be held on 16th September 2025.
Eugene Garfield Birth Centenary Celebration
📅 Date: 16 September 2025
🕑 Time: 14:00–16:00 IST
🌐 Mode: Online
This celebration will feature lectures from two experts in the field:
Each lecture will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
All are cordially invited.
Best Regards, Francis
Francis Jayakanth
JRD Tata Memorial Library
IISc.
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Have you read Garfield’s two-part essay on Ranganathan, published in Current Contents in 1984?
Garfield said:
"A partial indicator of Ranganathan’s international impact is the number of citations to his work in the Science Citation Index (SCI ) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSC1 ). Over 400 publications cited his work over a 20-year period. Prolegomena to
Library Classification, his comprehensive work on classification theory, is his most-cited publication. But, for a number of reasons, these citations are only a fraction of what a thorough search would establish. Not the least of three reasons is that our
coverage in the field in the early days of SCI and SSC1 was rather selective and limited. Still, when compared to other library notables, it is remarkable how often Ranganathan’s work is cited,
Indeed, when I began my recent talk at the Madras University library, I was moved to tell the audience that Ranganathan is to library science what Einstein is to physics."