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ORIGINS
Dr. Eugene Garfield: a pioneer in the field
of information science and scientific
communication.
His vision: using cited reference searching
as a basis for scientific and scholarly
discovery.
Dr. Garfield’s 1955 article in Science
introduced citation indexes as a new type
of classification tool -- Use a citation as a
search term (instead of a keyword) and as a
way to follow the “development path” of an
idea.
EVOLUTION OF CITATION
INDEX
1960’s Science Citation Index Print
1970’s Sci Search, Social Sci Search
1980’s CD-ROM version,
Late 1990’s Web of Science
HISTORY
ISI
Institute for Scientific
Information
Web of Science
2.