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Manfred Bonitz
Born	Manfred Bonitz (1931-03-06) March 6, 1931 Chemnitz, Germany
Died	Dresden, Germany
Education	Ph.D., xxx (19xx)
Occupation(s)	scientist, research management
Known for	Nuclear physicists, Scientometrician
Children	Michael Bonitz, Marc Bonitz

Manfred Bonitz was a German information scientist.

Biography

Bonitz was born in 1931 in Chemnitz, Germany. High school; Abitur; Study; Start to work as experimental nuclear physicist; send to Niels Bohr Institute end of 1960's; specific measurement. He worked as a scientist at the ZfK from xxx onwards. Inbetween he stayed as Niels Bohr (end of 1960's) and in the Soviet Union to obtain his second PhD. As many physicists at that time in East and West, in the 1970's he became more involved in the development of information science in the German Democratic Republic - ?in which function at ZfK. He was an advocate of new machine supported indexing techniques, gave lectures, contributed to internal policy papers, culminating in his book (ref). He became a board member for the journal Scientometrics and served in this function for xxx years. After the German unification (correct name - cross ref), his working contract with ZfK ended. In the 1990's he published several papers on the Matthew effect of science (ref), and edited books about Nalimov and xxx.

See also

• Matthew Effect of Science
• Bibliometrics
• Scientometrics

Further reading

• Garfield, Eugene (July 15, 1955). "Citation indexes for science..." (PDF). Science. 122 (3159). AAAS: 108–111. doi:10.1126/science.122.3159.108. PMID 14385826. Retrieved 2011-05-09. The concept of the Science Citation Index is first articulated.
• Garfield, Eugene (September 16, 2005). "The Agony and the Ecstasy—The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor" (PDF). International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication. Chicago. Retrieved 2011-05-09. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• "History of Citation Indexing" (Available online). Thomson Reuters. October 15, 2010. Retrieved 2011-05-09. Dr. Eugene Garfield, founder and now Chairman Emeritus of ISI® (now Thomson Reuters), was deeply involved in the research relating to machine generated indexes in the mid-1950s and early 1960s
• "Fifty Years of Citation Indexing and Analysis" (Available online). Thomson Reuters. October 6, 2010. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1955, Eugene Garfield, Ph.D published his groundbreaking paper on citation indexing, "Citation Indexes for Science: A New Dimension in Documentation through Association of Ideas." This innovative paper envisioned information tools that allow researchers to expedite their research process, evaluate the impact of their work, spot scientific trends, and trace the history of modern scientific thoughts. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

• Eugene Garfield's home page
• Works by or about Addig/sandbox in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Eugene Garfield tells his life story (video)
• Wiliams, Robert V. (July 29, 1997). "Interview with Eugene Garfield" (PDF). Center for Oral History, Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Category:1925 births Category:American Jews Category:Bibliometrics Category:Living people