What it looked like to work at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
interview with Bonnie Lawlor
Abstract
Bonnie Lawlor has devoted 28 years of her life to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia. In this interview, she vividly describes the atmosphere at ISI and what it was like to work with Eugene Garfield, the person whose name will always be associated with the Science Citation Index, the Journal Impact Factor, and the disciplines of scientometrics, bibliometrics, and information science. This interview provides a glimpse into the world of scientific information in the 1960s and the 1970s, when the enthusiasm for building new innovative information products reflected also the culture and the spirit of ...
Get Managing Scientific Information and Research Data now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
