The phrase "a groundbreaking article" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an article that introduces new ideas, methods, or findings that significantly change the understanding of a topic.
Example: "The researcher published a groundbreaking article that challenged the existing theories in the field of climate science."
Alternatives: "a revolutionary article" or "a pioneering article".
None of this can be called responsible if you accept McKibben's math, which he unveiled last summer in a groundbreaking article in Rolling Stone.
In 1960 he penned a groundbreaking article for the Harvard Business Review, titled "Marketing Myopia", in which he argued that most companies put themselves at a disadvantage by defining their missions too narrowly.
In April of this year, a law professor named Vicki Schultz will publish a groundbreaking article in the Yale Law Journal entitled "Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment," which is part of a large-scale reassessment of the law in light of the Thomas-Hill case.
In 1983, he wrote a groundbreaking article for The New Republic, in which he argued that the imposition of capital punishment, a practice that reinforced the value of the lives of white victims over those of black ones, was as troubling as violent crime itself.
In "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety," a groundbreaking article published in 1982, the American political commentator James Q . Wilsonand the American criminologist George L. Kelling maintained that the incidence as well as the fear of crime is strongly related to the existence of disorderly conditions in neighbourhoods.
In a groundbreaking article in 1971, he demonstrated that when buyers sought the best possible price and sellers set their price after having taken into account the costs associated with the buyer's search, the resulting price would be the same as that set by a monopolist in a corresponding market.
Or, if you prefer an unfiltered discussion, this groundbreaking article by a NFL hero doesn't pull any punches.
If you're curious to see how he applied that same accessible style to his scientific writings, a copy of his groundbreaking article on the possibility of synchronized communications satellites (or "Extra-Terrestrial Relays," as he called them in 1945) can be found here, at the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Web site.
Joe's column linked to a PDF file of the groundbreaking article he admired so much.
In 1962 his groundbreaking article "Environment: A New Focus for Public Policy?" appeared in Public Administration Review, launching development of a new subfield of environmental policy studies.
Truffaut would then write a groundbreaking Cahiers article in 1953 enigmatically titled "A Certain Tendency Of The French Cinema," which laid out what became known as "the auteur theory".
