Importance Quote by Abraham Pais

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be…

— Ben Goldacre

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

— David Hilbert

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

— Daniel Levitin

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper…

— Dale Jamieson

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of…

— Gad Saad

“As more journals moved online, scholars actually cited fewer articles than they had before.”

— Nicholas Carr

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case…

— Aubrey de Grey

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

— Carl L. Becker

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but…

— Eric Betzig

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

— James Daly