Watts and Strogatz (1998)

Watts and Strogatz cited 27 sources for their article and their article was cited by others 8,749 times as of today, April 3rd 2014. The top three authors that cited Watts and Strogatz’s article were Chen, Gr. (76 times), Wang, Bh. (71 times), and Zhou T. (68 times). Most of the citations were under physics disciplinary.