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“Attention is all you need” has 2x as many citations as original DNA paper
- PaulHoule 5y agoIt's not that surprising. Most citations are to recent scientific papers. Biologists today aren't going to say "DNA is made of A, C, T and G base pairs wound in a spiral" anymore than physicists are going to cite Newtons' Principia. On the other hand, everybody, their brother, sister and dog are trying hundreds of neural network architectures, hoping one scores 0.01% better than the best yet, and citing that attention paper. There are just so many more people doing science today. I remember looking at the Physical Review from the 1950s and it seems like I knew a lot of the names of the authors.
- phreeza 5y agoMaybe it also depends on the field. In computational neuroscience, which is a much smaller field than molecular biology or genetics, it is quite common to cite foundational papers in cutting edge papers. One such paper I just pulled up has ~25k citations for example, 10k more than the Watson & Crick paper...