摘要：The “pulsar paper” was published 30 years ago. The anniversary of an important text frequently provides an opportunity to assess or, at least, appreciate its academic influence. In the limited scope of this note, we cannot hope to offer a review article. Instead we would like to reflect upon what such a review or appraisal may mean and amount to, especially against the background of a parallel development in the period considered: the rise of evaluative bibliometrics via citation counts, rather than sustained reading, as a distinct set of procedures for assessing, by way of proxy, the academic influence of a text, thus identifiable as a “Citation Classic®”1
