Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has opened applications for The Eugene Garfield Award™, which recognizes early-career scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis. The award was launched in 2017 and has an unrestricted prize of $25,000.
As a part of the company’s mission to advance diversity, inclusion, and equity, this year Clarivate is actively seeking submissions from researchers in emerging nations and especially from African, Middle Eastern, and Southeast and Western Asian countries.
As a pioneer in automated indexing and retrieval of information since 1955, Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) developed citation databases for science that changed how researchers search and assess the scholarly literature. Three decades before the invention of the World Wide Web Dr. Garfield connected the immense body of scientific knowledge in a network. With the creation of the first Science Citation Index, he unlocked the power of the citation—the connection between one discovery and another, which was quite literally a “Web of Science™.”
Now a Clarivate product, the Web of Science indexes the content and the citation network of the world’s premier scientific and scholarly journals, proceedings, and books. It is the result of continuous evolution and innovation of the Science Citation Index, which Garfield introduced in 1964.
An award of $25,000 and access to Clarivate data will be granted to the applicant who demonstrates an innovative approach to scientific evaluation that will utilize either citation analysis or a combination of citation analysis and additional data sources. The Institute for Scientific Information is particularly interested in applications that relate to the research legacy of Dr. Eugene Garfield, research integrity, research evaluation, diversity and inclusion, and/or sustainability and innovation.
The deadline for receiving applications is July 1, 2022. The award winner will be notified by September 1, 2022.
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