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TheMultidisciplfnmyImpactof

MathandComputerScienceIsReflected

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CompuMathCitationIndex,1976-1980

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Incitationstudiesofhigh-impactarti-

clesbasedondatafromScienceCitation

Index"(SCP),somefieldsconsistently

dominate-biochemistry,immunology, molecularbiology,etc.Otherfields, suchasmathematicsorgeosciences, usuallyareunderrepresented.Onerea- sonisthattheaveragebiochemistry papercitesabouttwiceasmanyrefer- encesastheaveragemathematicspaper.

Thus,theaveragebiochemistwilltend

tobemorehighlycitedthantheaverage mathematician.Also,biochemistsare moreprolificthanmathematiciansinthe numberofpaperstheypublish.Thesize ofafield'sliteraturewillaffecttherange ofcitationfrequencies,butnottheim- pactoftheaveragepaper.Forexample, ifabodyofliteratureistentimesgreater thanthatofanother,itwillhavea greaterchanceofproducing"superstar" papers.

Byfocusingonselectedportionsof

ISI@'sdatabase,wecanidentifythe

most-citedpublicationsandauthors fromthe"smaller"sciencesthattendto be suppressedinlarge-scalecitation studies.In1973,weidentified150books andarticlesfrommathjournalsthat weremostcitedin.SC1from1961to

1972.1Wealsoanalyzedabout100pure

andappliedmathjournalsindexedinthe

1980SCItoseewhattheycitedandwhat

citedthem,ZInanotherstudy,weidenti- fiedthe200mathematiciansmostcited during1978-1979 inabout65SC1math journals.sIulvW,1984

Inthisessay,wepresentthe100

articlesmostcitedfrom1976to1980 in

CompuMathCitationIndex@

(CMCF ).4CMCIwaslaunchedin1982 toservetheinformationneedsofpure andappliedmathematicians,computer andresearchersinrelatedfields.CMCI ispublishedeveryfour monthsandcu- mulatedinannualeditionsfrom1981on- ward.Theliteraturefrom1976to1980is coveredinafive-yearcumulation.The

CompuMath"system"consistsofa

tionandusesoftheseindexeswerere- centlyreviewedforSC15andSocialSci- encesCitationIndex@(SSCF).6These essayscanserveas"primers"forCMCI aswell.

Eachyear,CMCIindexeseverysignif-

icantarticleinabout390"core"math journals.CMCIalsoselectivelycovers another1,800journalsinISI'Sdata bases.Articlesfromthesejournalsare automaticallyindexediftheymeetthe requirementsoftheselectionalgorithm.

Forexample,anarticleisselectedforin-

dexing ifoneormorekeywordsand phrasesinitstitlematchesadictionary oftermscreatedforCMCI.Independent ofthetitle,thealgorithmalsosearches thearticle'sreferencelist.Ifitcitedtwo "pure"mathjournalsfullycoveredin

CMCI,oronepureandtwoapplied

mathcorejournals,thearticleisselect- edforindexinginCMCI.Compulfuth 232
nowprovidesdirectaccessto280,000 sourcearticlesfrom1976todateandthe threemillionreferencestheycited.This isinadditiontocoverageofmathemat- icsandcomputersciencein.SC1from

1955to1975.

Thepresentstudyisbasedoncitation

datafromthefive-yearCM(Xcumula- tion.TheCMCIcumulationinclpdes

160,000articlespublishedfrom1976to

1980andthetwomillionreferencesthey

cited.Ofthese160,00articles,about70 percentwerepublishedin300"core" mathjournalsfullyindexedinCMCI.

Theremaining50,000articleswerefrom

morethan3,000journalsselectively coveredinCMCI.Manyofthesenon- corearticleswerefromappliedphysics journals.Thus,wewillfindthatalarge numberofphysicspapersareamongthe most-citedarticlesintheCMCZcumula- tion.Butyoushouldkeepinmindthat thesepapersapparentlyareofhighirr- teresttomathandcomputerscientists.

Table1liststhe100articlesmostcited

from1976to1980inCMCI.Thenumber ofcitationseachreceivedisshown,fol- lowedbyfullbibliographicinformation, includingtheinstitutionalaffiliationsof theauthors.Nineteenofthesearticles werediscussedinCitationClassics'"~ commentaries.Theyareindicatedby asterisks.Theissue,year,andeditionof

CurrentContents@(C@)inwhichthese

commentarieswerepublishedfollowthe reference.Anumbersymbolindicates thatthepaperwasoneofthemost-cited matharticlesfrom1961to1972.1The averagepaperinTable1receivedabout

116citationsinthefive-yearperiod

1976-1980.Eacharticlewascitedatleast

77times.Themost-citedpaperreceived

245citations.

Thepapersinthisstudywerepub-

lishedin54journals.Table2liststhe journalsthatpublishedatleasttwoof thesepapers.Thetopeightjournalsac- countfor38articles,andtheyreceived

4,300citations.Thisrepresents37per-

pected,asmalfnumberofjournalsac- countsforthemajorityofhigh-impact papersandcitations.

ItissignificantthattheComputer

JournalheadsthelistinTable2,ac-

countingforsixofthemost-citedarti- cles.WhileSCIhasalwaysextensively coveredthemathliterature,asystematic effortwasmadetoexpandcoverageof thecomputersciencesliteraturein

Ch4CZ.About165journalsandbookse-

riesnevercoveredinSCIarefullyin- dexedinCMCI.Mostofthesenewlyin- dexedpublicationsareinthecomputer sciences.Ofthe100most-citedCMCI articlesidenttiledhere,about20are relatedtovariousproblemsincomputer scienceresearch - algorithmsforauto- maticcomputation,programminglan- guages,systemdesign,etc.

About35physicspapersareincluded

inthisstudy.Mostofthesedealwith gaugetheories,amathematicalsystem fordescribingthefourknownforcesof nature.Asexplainedabove,CMCIse- lectivelycoversmanymath-dependent journals.Theselectionalgorithmex- pandsCMCI'Scoverageoftheliterature ofinteresttomathandcomputerscien- tists.Thisincludesnotonlyphysicsbut alsoengineering,psychology,econom- ics,andmedicaljournals.

Forexample,A.L.HodgkinandA.F.

Huxley,UniversityofCambridgeand

UniversityCollege,London,England,

respectively,coauthoredamethodfor measuringcurrent,conduction,andex- citationinsquidnerves.Thepaperwas publishedin1952intheJournalofPhysi- ology - Londonandwascited2,400 timesinSCIfrom1%1to1983.Itre- ceivedabout120citationsbetween1976 and1980inCMCI.Fivejournalsac- countforhalfoftheseCMCIcitations:

BiologicalCybernetics,Bulletinof

MathematicalBiology,JournalofMath-

ematicalBiology,MathematicalBiosci- ences,andBiophysicalJournal.Except forthelastjournal,allofthesepublica- 233

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