Watts and Strogatz in their article “Collective Dynamics of ‘Small-World Networks” has cited 27 other sources. The subjects of the 27 articles cited by them can be characterized as math and sciences. Watts and Strogatz’s article has been cited by 8709 other articles. It is popular amongst the Physics multidisciplinary sciences with a record count of 1622 citations. Along with the physics multidisciplinary sciences would be the computer sciences with 135-303 citations. The articles that cites this article the least are in the environmental and biological sciences category with less than 150 citations. The top three authors that cited the paper were Chen, Gr, Wang, BH and Zhou, T.  The statistics of the pattern of citations predicts that the numbers will only go up as time passes as it already looks that way.

• -# of sources that cited them : 8709
• -top 3 authors that cited the paper :CHEN GR,WANG BH,ZHOU T
• -cites the most : physics and science
• -cites the moderate amt: computer science
• -cites the least: environmental and biological sciences