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Eugene Garfield

1925 - 2017

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Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. He helped to create Current Contents, Science Citation Index (SCI), Journal Citation Reports, and Index Chemicus, among others, and founded the magazine The Scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Garfield is the 121st most popular computer scientist (down from 85th in 2019), the 6,814th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,888th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Eugene Garfield ranks 121 out of 245. Before him are Kenneth E. Iverson, Lynn Conway, Danny Hillis, Rasmus Lerdorf, Adele Goldberg, and Eugene Kaspersky. After him are Liviu Librescu, Gil Amelio, Sergey Lebedev, David A. Huffman, Ivar Jacobson, and Karen Spärck Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Eugene Garfield ranks 318. Before him are Amparo Rivelles, Gizella Farkas, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Theodore Levitt, Attilâ İlhan, and Duane Hanson. After him are John Shepherd-Barron, Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, Tankred Dorst, Francisco Rodrigues, Laura Ashley, and Yury Trifonov. Among people deceased in 2017, Eugene Garfield ranks 348. Before him are Robert Guillaume, Issam Zahreddine, Eduard Mudrik, Jean Vuarnet, Abdelmajid Dolmy, and Sue Grafton. After him are Tankred Dorst, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Vladimir Petrov, Redha Malek, András Kovács, and Liam Cosgrave.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Garfield ranks 6,816 out of 20,380. Before him are Barbara La Marr (1896), Anita Loos (1889), Edward Livingston (1764), Frank Havens (1924), Sue Grafton (1940), and Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969). After him are Ivan Brown (1908), Benjamin Briggs (1835), Ken Jeong (1969), Ford Konno (1933), Frances Spence (1922), and Alexis Herman (1947).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Eugene Garfield ranks 70. Before him are Alan Cooper (1952), Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), Lynn Conway (1938), Danny Hillis (1956), and Adele Goldberg (1945). After him are Gil Amelio (1943), David A. Huffman (1925), Peter Norton (1943), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), E. Allen Emerson (1954), and Bill Joy (1954).

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