Here’s a fun game to play on Google Scholar:
- Search for a relatively old paper in your field of choice. It will, presumably, be the top result.
- Note the number N in the “Cited by N” link under the top result’s abstract. Also note the year of publication.
- Click the “Cited by N” link.
- GOTO 2.
For example, here’s what results from searching for Luca Cardelli’s paper A polymorphic lambda-calculus with Type : Type:
| Paper Name | Pub Date |
Cited by <N> |
Citations per year |
| A polymorphic lambda-calculus with Type: Type | 1986 | 72 | 4 |
| The calculus of constructions | 1986 | 1053 | 44 |
| A framework for defining logics | 1993 | 1155 | 68 |
| Proof-carrying code | 1997 | 1873 | 145 |
| Xen and the art of virtualization | 2003 | 2375 | 340 |
| Globus toolkit version 4: Software for service-oriented systems | 2006 | 1179 | 295 |
| A taxonomy of data grids for distributed data sharing, management, and processing | 2006 | 175 | 88 |
| A toolkit for modelling and simulating data Grids: an extension to GridSim | 2008 | 38 | 20 |
| Service and utility oriented distributed computing systems […] | 2008 | 11 | 4 |
It’s sort of nifty to see the “arch” of citations, and citations/year, over time.
Other interesting searches:
- program slicing
- featherweight
Not very interesting:
- grain elevators
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