First coined in 1976 by Eugene Garfield, the Obliteration Phenomenon is a name for a concept in Library and information science, referring to the tendency for truly ground-breaking research papers to fail to be cited after the ideas they put forward are fully accepted into the orthodox world-view. For example, Einstein's paper on the theory of relativity is almost never cited in modern research papers on cosmology, despite its direct relevance. It is one of many problems with citation analysis.
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