Clarivate Analytics, the global provider of trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has announced the recipient of its first competition for the Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, at a memorial symposium for Dr. Eugene Garfield, to commemorate and celebrate his contributions to the field of information retrieval and scientometrics.
Dr. Jian Wang, Assistant Professor at the Science Based Business Program, Faculty of Science, Leiden University in the Netherlands, was selected for the award among many creative, high-quality applications. The submissions covered a broad range of topics, including knowledge generation and dissemination, scholarly publishing trends, author contributions and credit, team science and the science of science, among others; and were received from 18 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and South and Central America.
The Garfield award was created to recognize early-career scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis, one of the key interests of Dr. Garfield and an important component of his impact on information retrieval, research assessment and the study of the science of science.
Dr. Wang's research applies scientometric and econometric methods to characterize novel research using citation data and to use references to scientific literature from within patents to explore the translation of science into innovation. His work lies at the intersection of information science, economics and public policy and his findings contribute to the important discussion of how bibliometric indicators can be enhanced to better identify and assess novel research and translational science.
The award amount is $25,000, and the winner also receives access to Web of Science data.
The Garfield award was announced during a memorial symposium for Dr. Garfield. The two-day event included a series of scientific presentations on past, current and possible future uses of citation data in information retrieval and research assessment, as well as personal reflections of Dr. Garfield as a scholar, innovator, entrepreneur, colleague, friend and family man.
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