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Editorial Snapshot: Google highlights “classic” papers

– G.A., Senior Editor

While the attention of the general public is often drawn to new and exciting scientific findings that are reported in the media, scientists are more interested in the long-term impact of published findings. Since its launch in 2004, Google Scholar has provided the general public with a searchable index of peer-reviewed research for accessing notable studies. Google Scholar has even allowed scientists to create personal profiles that list their fields of interest and track their citation counts.

As an exercise in measuring the long-term impact of published papers, Google Scholar recently published a list of “classic papers” that represents the 10 most cited articles in a wide range of fields (as of May 2017). Rather than offer a list of the most cited papers published in the past decade, Google Scholar’s classic papers were all published in 2006.

In the rapidly changing world of science, 10 years can be considered a long period of time. But, as these classic papers show, in any field, a select number of publications will stand the test of time and continue to be cited many years after their initial publication.

Looking through this collection of papers, we can see that many of the topics, such as artificial intelligence and the human genome, are still the focus of intense research and public interest today. Although it is impossible to know what the future holds, it is interesting to wonder what studies that have been published so far in 2017 will be considered “classic” in 10 years’ time.

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