2019 Volume 64 Issue 4 Pages 174-178
The product which Dr. Eugene Garfield produced in the initial stage of the former ISI Co., which was the predecessor of the academic information business division of Clarivate Analytics, and the historical background are described, such as the first episode of Current Contents, or the story of behind the scenes of generating the first Citation Index, which was a correspondence between Dr. Garfield and Dr. Lederberg. A key driver of Garfield's succeeded innovations was the backing of pharmaceutical librarians and life science researchers.
