How good are the best papers of JASIS?

A citation analysis examined the 28 best articles published in JASIS (Journal of the American Society for Information Science) from 1969–1996. Best articles tend to be single-authored works twice as long as the average article published in JASIS. They are cited and self-cited much more often than the average article. The greatest source of references made to the best articles is from JASIS itself. The top five best papers focus largely on information retrieval and online searching.