EXAMINES THE INFLUENCE of Manfred Kochen, who was instrumental in the early planning of this issue off Library Trends, through a review of the various publications that have cited his work. INTRODUCTION idea for this issue of Library Trends, dedicated to the memory of Manfred Kochen, originated with the journal editor, F. W. Lancaster, in 1988. He had known Kochen and his work for many years (by reputation since 1963, on a personal basis since the early 1970s), and, once the idea for the issue arose, Kochen seemed an obvious choice to be editor. Kochen accepted the idea enthusiastically and had gone a long way toward planning the content of the issue by the time of his tragic death. When Amy Warner and Miranda Pao graciously agreed to take over as guest editors, they asked Lancaster to prepare a brief biographical tribute to Kochen; thus the present article arose. Kochen had a long and illustrious career. Although associated most obviously with IBM and the University of Michigan, the diversity of his interests took him, for periods of time, to many other institutions, including the Euratom project in Italy, Harvard, Rockefeller University, the U.S. Senate (as Congressional Fellow), and the Library of Congress. Rather than prepare a conventional

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The Year's Work in Cataloging and Classification.

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Kochen's influence examined bibliometrically

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