Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis 2021 – Web of Science Group
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The Web of Science Core Collection now covers: 21K+ journals 77M source items 1.5B cited references |
| Clarivate acquires the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) product range and continues the original business and intellectual legacy of Eugene Garfield. |
Garfield’s innovative products have been used by researchers seeking the best research papers in their disciplines and by administrators seeking to understand the impact of journals and the evolution of ideas captured in the literature, as well as to evaluate the research performance of universities, government programs and researchers.
| The Web of Science is introduced — as a web version combining Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). |
SCI and SSCI coverage
1900 to present
A&HCI coverage
1975 to present
| Thomson Corporation acquires ISI. |
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) becomes its own product and publishes for each indexed journal:
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CD-ROM version of the SCI is introduced. Digital versions eliminated manual searching through multiple and heavy printed volumes and increased adoption. |
| ISI introduces the A&HCI. |
| ISI publishes the first JCR. |
| ISI introduces the SSCI. |
| ISI publishes the first SCI, fulfilling Garfield’s original proposal in 1955 for citation indexing of scientific literature. |
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“I think you’re making history, Gene!” So said Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg to his friend Eugene Garfield while they were building the SCI. |
| Eugene Garfield establishes ISI in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States as a commercial entity to produce a wide range of current awareness and information retrieval products. |
ISI (1960-1992) was an innovative and risk-taking organization that pioneered many new concepts while rapidly adopting the latest technology in
- Information processing
- Information storage
- Methods of information dissemination