However, the first entry on the dictionary. Entry number 4, "highly original and influencing the development of future events" is the meaning I want to convey. Should I be worried about people confusing the two? The word has two meanings. Both have to do with generation, one of life and the other of ideas or artifacts. No serious reader will confuse what you mean if you call a specific book a seminal work. Only a grammar school or junior high school boy would think of Portnoy and imagine that he'd thought the book was a chunk of liver.
Glicksberg] [one of the great seminal minds of our age, In the context of an academic paper, I think you'll be safe. The word should be readily properly understood by your audience, as groundbreaking papers and research are often labeled as seminal works. No one will be "confused. There is about zero chance of genuine confusion, but depending on the subject and context the allusion or image may be present in the minds of some readers.
You have to decide for yourself whether this is liable to be a significant risk with your target audience and whether the worst case outcome of people noting the 'shadow meaning' is liable to be unnacceptable. Similarly, if the subject area was related to reproductive health, women's affairs or anything where sex played a legitimate or probable role then I'g find some other word to use. One risk is that your audience are well bahevaed mature people with clean minds and strength as the strength of ten BUT that a follow on speaker or an introducer decides to make a joke based on your material.
Such things happen n occasion. Or, look through : Ground breaking, earth shattering, revolutionary, innovative, leading edge, phenomenal, early innovator, industry leader, break-through, unprecedented, unique, If it's an academic text, your readers will be familiar with the meaning that you intend. There should be no risk of confusion. Although there is no risk of confusing your readers, it is worth noting that there is a risk that some of your readers will find the language sexist.
Personally, I do not use "seminal" in this sense in academic writing for precisely this reason. Log in Sign Up.
Save Word. Definition of seminal. Examples of seminal in a Sentence Kandel was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in for his seminal observation that it was in the action of the synapses between cells that memory existed, not in the cells themselves, and that a molecule called cyclic AMP was what allowed cells to retain memory over the long term.
She left behind an impressive body of fiction and criticism, including her seminal s essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation.
Barr Jr. Such an exhibition might seem to be logical, almost inevitable for the Museum of Modern Art. Recent Examples on the Web The collection evokes summers on the 's French Riviera, inspired by nautical themes, classic French sailor chic and the primary color palette of Mondrian and seminal 20th-century artists. First Known Use of seminal 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1. History and Etymology for seminal Middle English, from Latin seminalis , from semin-, semen seed — more at semen.
Look at the groups of colored dots to identify patterns in the research. Are some subtopics more heavily studied than others? Has research in this area peaked several years ago and has since died down? In the example below, we see that research in Online Learning has remained pretty consistent since the year However, research focused on New and Emerging Technologies seemed to gain the most momentum in Another quick way to find seminal papers is to use citation analysis tools available in Web of Knowledge.
Web of Knowledge provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from 3, of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines. Scroll down and select the link for Web of Knowledge. On the Web of Knowledge home page, first execute your search and refine it until you get the search results that reflect your topic. On the results screen, you will see Times Cited at the top of the list, as shown below.
A large number of times cited will likely indicate that the article is a seminal study. The Web of Knowledge citation report tool may also prove helpful when identifying seminal research.
To access the citation report feature, first choose and click on one of the hyperlinked titles in your results list to access its full record. Next , click on the link that states the number of citations within the database searched. In the example below, the user would click on the link, ' in All Databases.
Next, click on Create Citation Report within the results that appear. This will generate a Citation Report using all the citations within the list. Within the citation report, you can run more detailed analytics that provide data based on author, year, journal title, subject category, and more. The citation report and analytics can be useful for a number of reasons including seeing the impact your original article has over diverse multidisciplinary subject fields, to see how widespread a paper has been distributed and read, and to see which institutions cited and were cited by the original article.
In the analytics below, for example, we have chosen to visualize by author. As an example, the book What we know about emotional intelligence: How it affects learning, work, relationships, and our mental health , identifies Jack Mayer and Peter Salovey as conducting the first systematic research on the topic of emotional intelligence EI with Daniel Goleman bringing it to the mainstream through the publication of his book in Facebook Instagram Twitter.
Toggle navigation Home. Seminal Works What are Seminal Works Seminal works, sometimes called pivotal or landmark studies, are articles that initially presented an idea of great importance or influence within a particular discipline. To avoid overlooking pivotal research that may have occurred in years past, it is recommend that you do not use a date limiter, at least at first How to Find Seminal Works Although identification of seminal research will occur as you progress in your research, there are additional resources that may be used to help you visualize the development of research over time, and to identify possible seminal works.
Highly Cited - A source has been cited in many other works is one indication that a particular source is seminal. A number of our databases provide this information.
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