The dangers of using bibliometrics with polluted data

This week I attended a Webinar organised by Clarivate on the topic of “Eugene Garfield Centenary Celebration: Past, Present and Future of Scientometrics”. This covered the early history of the late Eugene Garfield’s work as well as current developments and future trends. The historical sessions were fascinating, describing the remarkable innovations that Garfield made in his quest to understand the body of scientific information as a network. He realised that similarities between articles could be identifi