The Derek de Solla Price Memorial Award, or Price Medal, was conceived to honor Derek J. de Solla Price for his contributions to information science and for his crucial role in developing the field of scientometrics.Erfanmanesh, Mohammadamin, and Zohreh Moghiseh. "How Winning an International Scientific Award Affects Publishing Behavior of Laureates: the Case of Derek de Solla Price Medal in Scientometrics." Publishing Research Quarterly 35.2 (2019): 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-018-9619-7 The award was launched by Tibor Braun, founder of the international journal Scientometrics, and is periodically awarded by the journal to scientists with outstanding contributions to the fields of quantitative studies of science. The awarding ceremony is part of the annual ISSI conference. The first medal was awarded to Eugene Garfield in 1984. The full list of winners can be found below.
Year Winner Year Winner 1984 Eugene Garfield 1985 Michael J. Moravcsik 1986 Tibor Braun 1987 Vasily V. Nalimov & Henry Small 1988 Francis Narin 1989 Bertram C. Brookes & Jan Vlachy 1993 Andras Schubert 1995 Anthony F.J. Van Raan & Robert K. Merton 1997 John Irvine & Ben Martin & Belver C. Griffith 1999 Wolfgang Glänzel & Henk F. Moed 2001 Ronald Rousseau & Leo Egghe 2003 Loet Leydesdorff 2005 Peter Ingwersen & Howard D. White 2007 Katherine W. McCain 2009 Peter Vinkler & Michel Zitt 2011 Olle Persson 2013 Blaise Cronin 2015 Mike Thelwall 2017 Judit Bar-Ilan 2019 Lutz Bornmann 2021 Ludo Waltman 2023 Kevin W. Boyack & Richard Klavans 2025 Gunnar Sivertsen
External links
ISSI - Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal
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