Clarivate Analytics, a leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced the recipient of the 2018 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis at the 23rd Science and Technology Indicators Conference in Leiden, Netherlands. Launched in 2017, this award recognises scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis that improve how they measure the impact of scientific research - also known as scientometrics - a field in which Garfield was a pioneer.
This year’s recipient is Orion Penner, researcher and Ambizione Fellow in the Chair of Innovation and IP Policy within the College of Management of Technology at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Originally trained in physics and complexity science, Penner applies tools from data science, economics and other social sciences to publication and patent databases to ask interesting questions about research and innovation as a system and how research careers evolve. Last year he was selected by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the prestigious Ambizone program, one of the most competitive funding schemes in Switzerland.
Penner’s current research program focuses on researcher careers, in particular how success is influenced by the decisions individual researchers make in allocating research effort across multiple topics, or in selecting a new job or mentor. His findings speak directly to the present discussion surrounding the sustainability of the current academic career system.
In studying researcher careers Penner has pioneered the rigorous application of various natural language processing techniques, including topic models, to a variety of textual data arising from researcher careers. Through this award, Penner will extend those techniques to the problem of identifying individual publications that have played an unusually pivotal role in scientific discourse.
Penner will receive $25,000 of prize money and access to Web of Science data, the publisher-neutral citation index. Penner will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which was originally established in 1960 by Eugene Garfield. The ISI focuses on the development of existing and new scientometric approaches.
Scientometric data not only provides researchers with insights about the impact of their work but they also help funding bodies and universities assess the impact of their research investments.
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