Obituary

Dr. Eugene Garfield, one of the first Editors-in-Chief of our journal, died unexpectedly on 26 February 2017. He founded the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia that became one of the first and most significant scientific information service and research centres in the world. He developed the perhaps most widely known, used and debated scientometric product, the Impact Factor. Eugene Garfield created several bibliographic indexes and databases that form the fundament of our daily work. Without his ingenious innovation of citation indexing, the field of scientometrics, as we know it today, would not be imaginable. He was the first recipient of the Derek de Solla Price Medal awarded by our journal. With his passing, our scientific community has lost one of its true pioneers and best leaders. The editors of the journal Scientometrics schedule a commemoration of his academic life and work in one of the following volumes.