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Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now Thomson Reuters, introduced “The Use of Citation Data in Writing the History of Science” in 1964. Forty years later, his HistCite™ tool automatically generates chronological tables and historiographs of topical paper collections. It assists researchers, librarians, and others in the following areas: identifying core papers on a topic in question; understanding the impact of specific authors, papers, and journals; and making sense of the history of old and new research topics. The HistCite™ tables support the interactive display and permit the sorting of papers chronologically as well as by journal, volume, issue number and page, and citation scores. Featuring graphic design by Elisha F. Hardy, concept and design from Katy Börner, images provided by Ludmila Pollock, and text from Jan Witkowski, this map compares, contrasts, and combines a modified version of Garfield’s manually created graph published in 1964 (left) with the HistCite™ graph automatically generated in 2006 (right). The 1964 graph shows the network of paper and citation linkages that led to the discovery of the DNA structure published by Watson and Crick in 1953. The HistCite™ graph plots major papers that cite Watson and Crick’s influential work. Find out more about the HistCite™ tool at http://histcite.com.