Watts and Strogatz cited 27 articles that ranged from physics multidisciplinary and mathematical to computer science information systems. The article itself was cited 8749 times. The top three authors who cited Watts and Strogatz’s article were Chen Gr, Wang Bh, and Zhou T. The journals that tend to cite this article the most were in areas of physics, sciences and mathematics while the least being tropical medicine, surgery and spectroscopy. There is an upward trend of number of citations (ie. it actually went up 40 times within 2 days this year).