Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, is now accepting applications for the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis. Launched in 2017, in memory of Dr. Garfield and his pioneering work in scientometrics, this international award will recognise researchers at any stage of their career developing an innovative approach in citation analysis that improves the impact of how scientific research is evaluated.
Dr. Garfield developed citation databases that changed how scientists find and assess scholarly literature. This led to the creation of the flagship scientific data platform the Web of Science, which indexes content and interconnected citations from the world's premier scientific and scholarly journals. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin referenced Dr. Garfield's work on citation analysis in their patent for PageRank, the algorithm that powers their eponymous search engine.
The winner will be awarded US$25k and Clarivate Analytics will provide the successful applicant with support and complimentary access to Web of Science data. The awardee will also be invited to give a research presentation at the 23rd Science and Technology Indicators Conference in Leiden, Netherlands and to meet and collaborate with the team at Clarivate's prestigious Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
The inaugural award submissions covered a wide range of topics including: knowledge generation and dissemination, scholarly publishing trends, author contributions and credit, team science and the science of science. Applications were received from across 18 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and South and Central America. Dr. Jian Wang, Assistant Professor at the Science Based Business Program, Faculty of Science, Leiden University in the Netherlands, was selected for the award based on his work at the intersection of information science, economics and public policy.
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