A retrospective review-textbook account of the history of superconductivity was
synthesized and compared with citation and co-citation data for two examples of
historical periods which lacked major cognitive events. It was asked whether the
formal cognitive organization (the cited documents and the co-cited relationships)
remained stable in such periods A thorough cognitive reorganization was
observed in both examples in spite of a lack of major events.
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