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Quality, without citations

Each decomposed paper scored on its intrinsic qualities — evidence strength, methodological rigor, problem gravity, reach — like fundamental analysis values a stock. The crowd's citation count isn't consulted.

⚖ 43

On the Design of Automata and the Interpretation of Cerebral Behavior

1955 · Stanley P. Frankel · cited 8× (not used in the score)

disruptive bridging

⚖ 41

Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954

1955 · M. H. A. Newman · cited 53× (not used in the score)

foundational bridging

⚖ 33

Computers and Automata

1953 · Claude E. Shannon · cited 119× (not used in the score)

foundational bridging

⚖ 32

Survey-Research Methods for the Study of Communities and Community Problems

1953 · Stephen B. Withey · cited 2× (not used in the score)

incremental bridging

⚖ 32

Data Processing: Automation in Calculation

1957 · Charles Wrigley · cited 5× (not used in the score)

incremental bridging

⚖ 24

Sir John Carew Eccles, A.C. 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997

2001 · D.R. Curtis, P. Andersen · cited 12× (not used in the score)

foundational stabilizing

⚖ 20

“The Status of Brain in the Concept of Mind”

1952 · Henry Cohen · cited 7× (not used in the score)

incremental bridging

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