An optimization concept for business data-processing equipment. - Don R. Swanson (AIEE-IRE Computer Conference (Western), 1955)

Information retrieval: state of the art. - Don R. Swanson (IRE-AIEE-ACM Computer Conference (Western), 1961)

Interrogating a Computer in Natural Language. - Don R. Swanson (IFIP Congress, 1962)

Probabilistic models for automatic indexing. - Abraham Bookstein; Don R. Swanson (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1974)

A decision theoretic foundation for indexing. - Abraham Bookstein; Don R. Swanson (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1975)

Two medical literatures that are logically but not bibliographically connected. - Don R. Swanson (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1987)

Historical note: Information retrieval and the future of an illusion. - Don R. Swanson (J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1988)

Online search for logically-related noninteractive medical literatures: A systematic trial-and-error strategy. - Don R. Swanson (JASIS, 1989)

Verification of results that logically related noninteractive literatures are potential sources of new knowledge. - Don R. Swanson (JASIS, 1989)

Response: Absence of citations can be valuable clue. - Don R. Swanson (JASIS, 1989)

A second example of mutually isolated medical literatures related by implicit, unnoticed connections. - Don R. Swanson (JASIS, 1989)

Integrative mechanisms in the growth of knowledge: A legacy of Manfred Kochen. - Don R. Swanson (Inf. Process. Manag., 1990)

Analysis of Unintended Connections Between Disjoint Science Literatures. - Don R. Swanson (SIGIR, 1991)

Intervening in the Life Cycles of Scientific Knowledge Patrick Wilson, The Value of Currency. - Don R. Swanson (Libr. Trends, 1993)

Undiscovered Public Knowledge: A Ten-Year Update. - Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser (KDD, 1996)

An Interactive System for Finding Complementary Literatures: A Stimulus to Scientific Discovery. - Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser (Artif. Intell., 1997)

Implicit Text Linkages between Medline Records: Using Arrowsmith as an Aid to Scientific Discovery. - Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser (Libr. Trends, 1999)

Information discovery from complementary literatures: Categorizing viruses as potential weapons. - Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser; Abraham Bookstein (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2001)

Literature-based discovery: New trends and techniques. Sponsored by SIG HCI. - Neil R. Smalheiser; Carole L. Palmer; Don R. Swanson; Padmini Srinivasan; Marti A. Hearst (ASIST, 2003)

A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: A model for author name disambiguation. - Vetle I. Torvik; Marc Weeber; Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2005)

Ranking indirect connections in literature-based discovery: The role of medical subject headings. - Don R. Swanson; Neil R. Smalheiser; Vetle I. Torvik (J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2006)