Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has announced Dr. Giacomo Livan as the recipient of the 2020 Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis.
Launched in 2017, the award recognises early-career scientists who work on innovative approaches to citation analysis that improve how impact of scientific research is measured. This field of study, also known as scientometrics, was pioneered by Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific InformationTM (ISI) at Clarivate.
Dr. Giacomo Livan has been recognised for his research proposal to create a novel framework to quantify the academic impact of researchers relative to their specific circumstances, resulting in a novel author-level metric of academic impact named ‘citations above replacement’. The project is directly inspired by modern sports analytics and aims to allow for fairer comparisons between researchers.
Dr. Livan will receive $25,000 of unrestricted prize money and access to the Web of ScienceTM, claimed to be the world’s largest publisher-neutral citation index. He will also be invited to collaborate with the current citation analysts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information, established in 1960 by Dr. Eugene Garfield.
ISI focuses on the development of existing and new scientometric approaches. Scientometrics shapes the future of scientific discovery by helping governments, funding bodies and universities assess the impact of their work and investments, enabling them to allocate funding accordingly. It can also provide researchers with insights regarding the impact of their research, and the wider field.
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