Scientific information systems and the principle of selectivity

Co‐citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents

Henry Small · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1973 · 5.2K citations

Management, Physics, Information Retrieval +13

Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers

M. M. Kessler · American Documentation · 1963 · 2.8K citations

Management, Computer Science, Scientific Computing +6

Generalization of Epidemic Theory: An Application to the Transmission of Ideas

William Goffman, Vaun A. Newill · Nature · 1964 · 395 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Disease Control, Epidemiology +9

A Co-Citation Model of a Scientific Specialty: A Longitudinal Study of Collagen Research

Henry Small · Social Studies of Science · 1977 · 272 citations

Humanities, Sociology, Historiography +11

Mathematical Approach to the Spread of Scientific Ideas—the History of Mast Cell Research

William Goffman · Nature · 1966 · 139 citations

Humanities, Biology, Mathematics +14