harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. R. Harnad) (09/19/89)
Eugene Garfield, the Founder of the Institute for Scientific
Information in Philadelphia (Current Contents, Science Citation Index)
is retiring as Editor-In-Chief of Current Contents and looking to
groom a successor. The choice is important not only to ISI but to the
world scientific community, because of the important role CC and SCI
play. He's asked for my advice on a successor, and I've decided to
try polling the Net for nominations (a thoroughly modern way of doing
it, and in keeping, I think, with Garfield's spirit of innovation).
The successor must be literate across scientific disciplines and able to
prepare (with a team of seven researchers working under him) one
article-length editorial per week in CC analyzing some aspect of
science or scientific communication. He must also direct all the
different versions of CC (life sciences, physical sciences, etc.) and
the interactions with the other divsisions of ISI (especially the
citation indices).
In my view this is a position for an energetic, productive and
innovative person with a strong academic background either directly or
indirectly related to scientific communication.
Please forward nominations to me, not to the Net.
Stevan Harnad JVNET: harnad@confidence.princeton.edu harnad@princeton.edu
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Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544
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