*Citations do not reflect important innovations but the usefulness of a paper to

*Citations do not reflect important innovations but the usefulness of a paper to the broader community of researchers.*

—“Stephen Stigler, a statistician at the University of Chicago in Illinois and an expert on the history of the field, “these papers are not at all those that have been most important to us statisticians”. Rather, they are the ones that have proved to be most useful to the vastly larger population of practising scientists.”—