Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Menard, Henry William (1973), 'Citations in a Scientific Revolution, Studies in Earth and Space Sciences: A Memoir in Honor of Harry Hammond Hess, Retrieved on 2012-06-12Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science Memes
12 JUN 2012
Journal Papers Don't Trigger Revolutions
It appears that the extremely important papers that trigger a revolution may not receive a proportionately large number of citations. The normal procedures of referencing are not used for folklore. A real scientific revolution, like any other revolution, is news. The Origin of Species sold out as fast as it could be printed and was denounced from the pulpit almost immediately. Sea-floor spreading has been explained, perhaps not well, in leading newspapers, magazines, books, and most recently ...Folksonomies: science popularization
Folksonomies: science popularization
Science that makes the news does.