“…Broadly speaking, “citation analysis is the generic expression indicating the construction of indicators by using the number of citation as a basic information unit” (Todeschini & Baccini, , p. 49). Applied to the historiography of science, it has long been used, among other purposes, to evaluate the impact of a specific author, text, or journal on a scientific field (e.g., de Bellis, ; Garfield, ; Herubel, ; Kryzhanovsky, ; Scharnhorst & Garfield, ; Solla Price, ; Tejasen, ). In the same vein, historians of psychology have relied on citation analysis to provide a historical account of intellectual activity and influences within the field (e.g., Brozek, 1969a, b, , , ; Carvalho Neto et al, ; Goodman, ; Simonton, ; Walters, ).…”