Found it, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price#Scientific_contributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price#Scient.

Found it, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price#Scientific_contributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price#Scient... Price's Law generally predicts the growth of social networks, which is why it's important today, but he discovered it in the context of number of scientific citations.