Highly Cited Documents on Google Scholar (1950-2013)

This dataset contains: - A sample of 64,000 highly cited documents published in the period 1950-2013, collected from Google Scholar on the 28th of May, 2014. - List of clean references of the top 1% most cited documents in Google Scholar (640 documents) - Study case: different versions (detected and undetected by Google Scholar) for the work "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", by Claude Shannon. - Frequency table: number of highly-cited documents in our sample published in WoS-covered journals