After giving a brief overview of Eugene Garfield’s contributions to the issue of identifying and studying the most cited scientific articles, manifested in the creation of his Citation Classics, the main characteristics and features of Google Scholar’s new service -Classic Papers-, as well as its main strengths and weaknesses, are addressed. This product currently displays the most cited Englis...

In 1971 Abdel R. Omran published his classic paper on the theory of epidemiologic transition. By the mid-1990s, it had become something of a citation classic and was understood as a theoretical statement about the shift from infectious to chronic diseases that supposedly accompanies modernization. However, Omran himself was not directly concerned with the rise of chronic disease; his theory was...

Abstract The citation graph is a computational artifact that widely used to represent the domain of published literature. It represents connections between works, such as citations and authorship. Among other things, supports computation bibliometric measures h-indexes impact factors. There now an increasing demand we should treat publication data in same way conventional publications. In parti...

In the recently concluded series on the 1,000 articles most cited in the Science Citation Inde# (.SCP ), 1961 to 1982, I drew attention to the many Nobel laureates who were authors of one or more of these highly cited papers. 1 It was no surprise that 14 percent of the 1,000 papers were written by Nobel Prize winners, since we knew that as a group they are heavily cited. In 1965 Irv Sher, ISP’s...

Although it is not presently possible in any system, the style of retrieval described here combines familiar components—co-citation linkages of documents and TF*IDF weighting of terms—in a novel way that could be implemented in citation-enhanced digital libraries of the future. Rather than entering keywords, the user enters a string identifying a work, called a seed, to retrieve the strings ide...

The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25million papers and 600 million references from the Web of Science over the 1900–2006 period, this paper proposes a simple model based on a random selection process to explain the “uncitedness” phenomenon and its decline...

BACKGROUND Articles cited counts are catalogued and help identify landmark papers. This study provides a citation classics of anesthesiology literature using the framework of subspecialties to provide a review of well-developed areas of research in anesthesiology. METHODS A comprehensive list of the most-cited articles in anesthesia was compiled using a bibliometric database and general searc...