Henry Small received a joint Ph.D. in Chemistry and the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1971.  After working as a historian of science at the American Institute of Physics’ Center for History and Philosophy of Physics he joined the staff of the Institute for Scientific Information (now Thomson Scientific) in 1972 where he is currently Chief Scientist.  His 1973 paper in JASIST on co-citation in the scientific literature is one of the most cited papers in that journal and was later designated a Citation Classic. He has received the Derek de Solla Price Medal in 1987 from the journal Scientometrics, and the Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science and Technology in 1998. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services, and is currently president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.  He has written over 100 papers on topics in citation analysis and the mapping of science, and received the JASIST best paper award in 1987.

Speaking Engagements

• International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2005
• Society for Social Study of Science (4S) 2005, Pasadena, Ca.., October 2005

 

Publications

• H. Small, "Visualizing Science by Citation Mapping," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(9): 799-813, 1999.
• H. Small, “A Passage through Science: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries,” Library Trends, 48(1): 72-108, 1999.
• H. Small, “Charting Pathways through Science: Exploring Garfield’s Vision of a Unified Index to Science,” in: The Web of Knowledge – A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Garfield, B. Cronin and H. Atkins, eds. (Medford, N.J.: Information Today, Inc., 2000), pp. 449-473.
• H. Small, “Paradigms, citations and maps of science: a personal history,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(5): 394-399, 2003.
• H. Small, “On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation,” Scientometrics, 60(1): 71-79, 2004.
• H. Small, “Why authors think their papers are highly cited,” Scientometrics, 60(3): 305-316, 2004. 
• H. Small, “Tracking and predicting growth areas in science,” in: Proc. of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 2005.  vol. 1. P. Ingwersen and B. Larsen, eds. (Stockholm, Sweden, 2005), pp. 13 – 23. 

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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