Howard D. WhiteJerry Lee, a Chinese researcher in scientometrics, posted this diagram of winners of the Derek de Solla Price Medal, an international biennial award for distinguished contributions to that field, which he's been popularizing for scholars, scientists, and students in China. Price, who held a chair in the history of science at Yale, did some brilliant early work in citation analysis with data from the Science Citation Index. Eugene Garfield, who won the medal in 1984, published that index through a company he founded in Philadelphia and wrote very extensively about its uses. Several subsequent winners belong to a Philadelphia-based research tradition with close ties to Garfield's databases—Henry Small, Belver Griffith, Kate McCain, and myself. Winners are chosen by secret ballots cast by a large group of experts in the field, and I was astonished when I learned by email I was awardee. I hadn't even known I was nominated. I'm an English major.