Search Paper Fun: Most Cited

I sent a query to Lee Giles, the guru at Penn State behind CiteSeer (with Steve Lawrence, who is now at Google) asking him which search-related papers are the most cited. I was struck by the near parity between Page and Brin’s original paper on Google and Jon Kleinberg’s paper on Hubs and Authorities. Giles did a bit of fiddling with Google Scholar and responded:

For web related work these are well cited in the Google Scholar using the query “web”:

 PDF] The Semantic Web

T Berners-Lee, J Hendler, O Lassila – View as HTML – Cited by 1347

… May 17, 2001. The Semantic Web. A new form of Web content that is meaningful to

computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities. … Web: A Research Agenda. …

Scientific American, 2001 – www-personal.si.umich.edu

 [PDF] The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine

S Brin, L Page – View as HTML – Cited by 1087

Abstract In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search

engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google …

Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1998 – kulturinformatik.uni-lueneburg.de – firstrate.co.nz – net.cs.pku.edu.cn – scalab.uc3m.es – all 69 versions   

However, this one can’t be ignored:

 [PDF] Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment

J Kleinberg… – Cited by 1059

Abstract. The network structure of a hyperlinked environment can be a rich

source of information about the content of the environment, provided we …

Journal of the ACM, 1999 – portal.acm.org – nan.dhs.org – cs.cmu.edu – mathe.tu-freiberg.de – all 73 versions

 This book is the first to discuss the web in any detail:

 [PS] Modern Information Retrieval

R Baeza-Yates, B Ribeiro-Neto, R Baeza-Yates – View as HTML – Cited by 1198

Page 1. Modern Information Retrieval. Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Berthier Ribeiro-Neto.

ACM Press New York. … 1.1.2 Information Retrieval at the Center of the Stage . . …

Addision Wesley, 1999 – dcc.ufmg.br – sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl – sims.berkeley.edu – portal.acm.org – all 7 versions »

All worthy reads!