Scholars do not dispute that Lewis Terman is an influential figure in the field of gifted education. What is less well understood is the extent of that influence within the field and outside the field of gifted education. Citation analysis provides one method to quantify and analyze a scholar’s influence. In our analysis, we use citation analysis to categorize and analyze a sample (n= 213) of scholarly works which cite one of Lewis Terman’s Genetic Studies of Genius or successive works produced by his students. Our analysis provided evidence that nearly half of all citations of Terman’s work are considered incidental and do not directly reference his work or legacy. Furthermore, we found that negative citations of Terman’s work were in the minority compared with positive and neutral citations.

学者们并不否认刘易斯·特曼是天才教育领域的一位有影响力的人物。不太了解的是在资优教育领域内外的影响程度。引文分析提供了一种量化和分析学者影响力的方法。在我们的分析中，我们使用引文分析来分类和分析引用 Lewis Terman 的Genetic Studies of Genius之一的学术著作样本 ( n = 213)或他的学生创作的连续作品。我们的分析提供的证据表明，近一半对特曼作品的引用被认为是偶然的，并没有直接引用他的作品或遗产。此外，我们发现与正面和中性引用相比，对特曼作品的负面引用占少数。