Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship
2005

Call for Nominations

 
1. Nature of the Award
  The scholarship will consist of an award of $2,500 (donated by the Eugene Garfield Foundation) to be used for travel or other research related expenses of the grant recipient, contingent upon the recipient's attending the ISSI biennial conference and presenting a paper.  The next meeting of ISSI will be held July 24-28, 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden. (See the ISSI 2005 web site)
 
2. Purpose of the Award
  The purpose of this scholarship is to foster research in bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research.
 
3. Eligibility
 

The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications:

  1. Be an active doctoral candidate pursuing research using bibliometric, scientometric, informetric or webometric methodology in a degree-granting institution;
     

  2. Have a doctoral dissertation proposal accepted by the institution.

Awards may be made for research underway or soon to be completed. 

The applicant need not be a Student Member or a Regular Member of ISSI to be considered for this scholarship.
 
4. Administration
  The award is sponsored by the Eugene Garfield Foundation with the cooperation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and is administered by the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).
 
5. Nominations
 

The submission should include the following:

  1. The doctoral research proposal, including a description of the research, methodology, and significance, 10 pages or less in length, double-spaced, and in English;

  2. A title and abstract of the paper to be presented at the ISSI conference;

  3. A cover letter from the dissertation advisor endorsing the proposal; and

  4. An up-to-date curriculum vitae.

Deadline for submissions was September 1, 2004.

We thank for all submitted nominations. The nominations are now being assessed by the award committee, headed by Dr. . All nominees will be notified of the committee's decision by December 1, 2004.