Belver C. Griffith

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Belver Callis Griffith (born March 28, 1931 - October 23, 1999 in Philadelphia ) was an American information scientist .

Life

Belver C. Griffith studied psychology at the University of Connecticut and then worked in the field of cognitive psychology . In the early 1960s he investigated the exchange of scientific information in the field of psychology as part of a research project for the American Psychological Association . Since then, quantitative analysis of scientific communication has been his main field of work. He became one of the pioneers of the sector closely linked areas bibliometrics , scientometrics and scientific communication. In 1969 Griffith became a professor at Drexel University's School of Library and Information Science in Philadelphia. In the 1970s there was close collaboration with Henry Small of the Institute for Scientific Information on co-citations as a means of analyzing formal structures and as a complement to the informal social structure in science. Together they published a number of important papers on cocitation analysis. Howard D. White of Drexel University was also among his co-authors.

In 1982 Griffith became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1997 he received the Derek John de Solla Price Award from Scientometrics magazine .

literature

  • Henry Small: Comments on Belver C. Griffith, recipient of the 1997 Derek de Solla Price Award , Scientometrics Vol. 40 (1997) No. 3, pp. 359-362
  • Laura Joy Moyer: Bibliography of publications of Belver C. Griffith , Scientometrics Vol. 51 (2001) No. 3, pp. 469-479

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Howard D. White, Katherine McCain: In Memory of Belver C. Griffith , Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 51 (2000) No. 10, pp. 959-962
  2. ^ Fellows of the AAAS: Belver C. Griffith. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed April 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Griffith, Belver C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griffith, Belver Callis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1931
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1999
Place of death Philadelphia