More fun with Claude and dashboards. As an academic at an R1 research university, citations matter. Currency of the realm. I have long used Google Scholar to track my total numbers, but I was curious to see how different articles/publications tracked through time. So, below is an animated chart of my top 20 publications over the past 20 years. Just click play or restart under the bar graph (and pick your speed). At the very end is a comment on how the data was used.
Which works carried the citations, 2006 to 2026
The 20 most-cited works at the end of each year, ranked by cumulative citations. Press play to watch twenty years of reshuffling, or drag the slider to any point in time.
Top 20 today
| Rank | Work | Citations | Rank in 2006 | Added since 2006 |
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How these numbers were built
Totals and per-year counts come from the Google Scholar profile and each article’s citation bar chart, collected November 9, 2026. The 2026 frame is a partial year.
Scholar’s per-year bars leave out citations it cannot date, so each article’s bars sum to slightly less than its total. Each year’s figure here is the current total minus the dated citations that arrived after that year. Undated citations are therefore counted as early ones, which may overstate the early years a little; the 2026 frame matches the profile exactly.
The 100 most-cited works were tracked. Anything below that has at most 3 citations, under the 20th-place cutoff in every year (8 in 2006), so it could not have entered the top 20. Thirty different works appear in the top 20 at some point; the chart only loads those. A work counts from its publication year or its first dated citation, whichever is earlier, so undated citations never appear before a work existed. Citations Scholar records before 2005 are sparse, so the early frames likely understate those papers. Translations such as the Portuguese and German editions of Expect More appear as separate entries because Scholar lists them separately.