Research Intelligence
Because of our extended coverage of the research assessment exercise in this issue, the full Research Intelligence section does not appear this week. The section, with research grant listings, will return in our next issue, on 1 January, when we will list the top institutions in agricultural science.
| Rank | Paper Author(s), Journal | Citations |
| 1 | Size of Santa Claus drawings as a function of time before and after Christmas R.A. Craddick Journal of Psychological Studies, 12(3): 121-125, 1961 | 26 |
| 2 | Postmodern tourism: the Santa Claus industry M. Pretes Annals of Tourism Research, 22(1): 1-15, 1995 | 19 |
| 3 | Imaginary figures of early childhood: Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy N.M. Prentice, M. Manosevitz and L. Hubbs American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 48(4): 618-628, 1978 | 19 |
| 4 | Children, gender, and social structure: an analysis of the contents of letters to Santa Claus J. G. Richardson and C. H. Simpson Child Development, 53(2): 429-436, 1982 | 15 |
| 5 | A child’s Christmas in America: Santa Claus as deity, consumption as religion R. W. Belk Journal of American Culture, 10(1): 87-100, 1987 | 14 |
| 6 | Letters to Santa Claus: elementary school-age children’s sex-typed toy preferences in a natural setting A. C. Downs Sex Roles, 9(2): 159-163, 1983 | 13 |
| 7 | What is the meaning of Santa Claus? W. O. Hagstrom American Sociologist, 1(5): 248-252, 1966 | 8 |
| 8 | Children’s belief in Santa Claus: developmental study of fantasy and causality N. M. Prentice, L. K. Schmechel and M. Manosevitz Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 18(4): 658-667, 1979 | 7 |
| 9 | All I want for Christmas: an analysis of children’s brand requests to Santa Claus C. Otnes, Y. C. Kim and K. Kim Journal of Popular Culture, (4): 183-194, 1994 | 4 |
| 10 | Children’s belief in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy J.%u2009R. Blair, J. S. McKee and L. F. Jernigan Psychological Reports, 46(3): 691-694, 1980 | 4 |