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Abstract:  The purpose of this essay is to examine the impact of his research, with particular emphasis on citation analysis. We have examined each crop of annual Nobel prizes awarded since 1979.1-0 Beginning with the 1982 awards, however, we have modified our discussion by including data based on the research fronts we identify each year for Science Citation Index @ (SCI @). As will be seen here, thk data bank is increasingly benoming a major tool for historical, retrospective, and prospective analyses of scienc % and scholarship. Briefly, ; research front is a group of current pape~. that cite a cluster of older ?core ? papers irka specialty. Co-citation clustering proced~res have been described in previous es.$ays.4 While the discussion that follows is net the typical minireview we produced for our p~totype