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  • Joshua Lederberg
چکیده

It is a privilege and a pleasure to be able to have these pages of foreword to Gene Garfield’s essays. My first encounter with Gene dates back to the publication of his landmark article in Science 1 “Citation indexes for science; a new dimension in documentation through association of ideas”. A few years later I recalled this first paper and asked myself whatever might have come of his proposal. Then, realizing that such a question embodied one of the principal functions of the Science Citation Index, I wrote to him about this private experience and offered to lend whatever public support was possible to the realization of his vision. Believing, I think correctly, that geneticists might be especially preadapted to sympathizing with the concepts of parent-offspring relationships of publications, I suggested to him that this discipline might be a favorable arena in which to test his ideas. This indeed proved to be helpful in their consummation. I have never ceased to be amazed at the energy and insight that Gene has been able to exert to make these dreams into a tangible reality in a way that has already altered both our practice and concept of scientific communication today. There have after all been few fundamental qualitative changes in the pattern of scientific communication since the invention of the scientific journal in 1664. With the appearance of the Science Citatr”on Index it is of course much easier for the authenticity of older work to be more readily evaluated. Perhaps equally important, contemporary authors realize that their tribute to

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تاریخ انتشار 1998