We made a quick analysis, based on Google Scholar, of cites’ variation for scientific publications in disciplines within the social and behavioral sciences and social ICT.

The first graph represents the variation in the number of articles carrying the ‘social simulation’ tag (blue bars, while red bars represent those not carrying the tag) in the period 2000-2004 (firs two bars) and 2004-2008 (last two bars). As it appears, cites of simulation-tagged publications always increase, unlike those not related to simulation. These latter instead show a decreasing rate of growth, or even receive a decreasing number of citations over the years.

The following picture shows the same pattern concerning application fields in the same areas of science.