FIGURE 1. Citations per year of Watson and Crick's first 1953 Nature paper in scientific journals (English language only).
From the following article:
Who cares about the double helix?
Bruno J. Strasser
Nature 422, 803-804(24 April 2003)
doi:10.1038/422803a
The value for 2003 is extrapolated linearly from data available as of 31 March 2003 (40 citations). Source: ISI Science Citation Index.