40 histories of animal behavior studies were examined for their consensus concerning the founders of this discipline. In all, 214 different investigators were mentioned in 895 citations. Darwin and Lloyd Morgan were reliably cited (followed by Romanes, Watson, Loeb, and Thorndike), but the over-all citation overlap among different sources was generally low. The results were numerically similar to those found in bibliometric studies of Lotka's law.
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