Cited Long-Standing Papers

A Nobel Prize signifies the importance of someone s scientific achievements regardless of the manner in which the achievements were published. In this section, we consider individual papers in the scientific literature and examine a quantitation of the influence of those papers. 

Eugene Garfield and his colleagues of the Institute of Scientific Information (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) have used their vast and growing database to rank the most highly cited works in the scientific literature. Their analyses 

In making the selections for Table 1, we used the broad w orking definitions of computational chemistry given elsewhere.The quantitative modeling of chemical phenomena by computer-implemented techniques is how we view the scope of the field, so it includes practically all aspects of chemical research that are expedited or rendered practical by computers. The scope of computational chemistry is thus set very wide. 

The data in Table 1 are sufficient testimony to the broad usefulness of these papers over a sustained period of many years. To the authors who did the research and wrote these papers go the accolades of their peers. 

46 5792 276 342 D. T. Cromer and J. B. Mann, Acta Crystallogr., Ser. A., 24, 321 (1968). X-Ray Scattering Factors Computed from Numerical Hartree-Fock Wave Functions. 

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