I am sad to understand the demise of Eugene Garfield, the father of citation indexing. He is an information scientist of the highest order. As a student of LIS, I have read some of his writings. His writings are lucid and critical. His series 'Essays of an information scientist' are all classics in their right. I recollect for having read a tribute on Ranganathan in that series, which showed that Garfield was a person who gives credit where it is due. He was a prolific author. It is not surprising that he is a much-cited author and has an h-index of 28 (WoS). With his departure from this world, I feel, there is void which is tough to fill. Let his soul rest in peace. N.S. Harinarayana Department of Library and Information Science University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006 Off. Ph: (0821) 2419393 On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:51 PM Subject: Eugene Garfield To: subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com

It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform all our friends that our wonderful Gene died on February 26, 2017. He was recently fitted with a pacemaker and was in a rehab place to gain strength before he came home on Wednesday, March 1. Unfortunately he fell and hit his head causing massive bleeding in the brain, as he was on a blood thinner.

I will keep you all informed about a memorial to celebrate Gene’s life as and when we plan one.

Love,

Meher

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