COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Garfield has received more than 162,332 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Eugene Garfield is the 85th most popular computer scientist (up from 96th in 2019), the 4,888th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,479th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Eugene Garfield ranks 85 out of 245. Before him are Joseph Sifakis, Radia Perlman, Ruth Teitelbaum, Gil Amelio, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jacques Vallée. After him are Larry Tesler, Eric S. Raymond, John Henry Holland, Ivar Jacobson, Mary Kenneth Keller, and Manuel Blum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Eugene Garfield ranks 251. Before him are John Neville, Yuli Daniel, Ritwik Ghatak, Vojtěch Jasný, Néstor Rossi, and José Freire Falcão. After him are Carmen Martín Gaite, Abdelsalam Majali, Mohammed Mzali, Hasse Jeppson, Attilâ İlhan, and Laura Ashley. Among people deceased in 2017, Eugene Garfield ranks 249. Before him are Gisèle Casadesus, Gorden Kaye, Vitaly Churkin, Vladimir Petrov, Torgny Lindgren, and Željko Perušić. After him are Tony Atkinson, Svend Asmussen, Ruth Pfau, Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, and Ivan Dias.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Garfield ranks 4,888 out of 20,380. Before him are Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Joel McCrea (1905), Helen Merrill (1930), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Richard Kiley (1922), and Jonah Hill (1983). After him are Michelle Williams (1980), Hal B. Wallis (1898), Carole Landis (1919), Roy Raymond (1947), John Neumeier (1939), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Eugene Garfield ranks 53. Before him are Richard M. Karp (1935), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Gil Amelio (1943), and Marlyn Meltzer (1922). After him are Larry Tesler (1945), Eric S. Raymond (1957), John Henry Holland (1929), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Ed Roberts (1941), and Betty Holberton (1917).

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