Price did not make it easy for us to keep track of his papers. Many were published in obscure journals. This had as much to do with Price's worldwide contacts as it did with his disdain for heavy-handed editors. As a result he tended to publish where he had the least trouble. This also testifies to the controversial nature of Price's work even to the end of his career. Part of this was due to the provocative way he presented his ideas. But for many the quantitative description of science, that most intellectual of human endeavors, seemed alien.
In addition to the essays, the book contains a foreword coauthored by Robert K. Merton and Eugene Garfield, two individuals who had major influences on Price; a useful biographical sketch; and Price's "Citation Classic," which contains a brief but informative account of the inception and reception of his quantitative studies of science.
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