The phrase "a seminal article" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an article that has had a significant impact on a particular field or discipline, often introducing new ideas or concepts.
Example: "The author published a seminal article that changed the way researchers approach the topic of climate change."
Alternatives: "a groundbreaking article" or "a pivotal article".
In 2010 two legal academics, Marcel Kahan and Edward Rock, published a seminal article on "Embattled CEOs".
In his first year as a faculty member, at Washington University, he published a seminal article on nuclear magnetic resonance.
Last year Mr Govindarajan and Mr Trimble (hereafter: G&T) published a seminal article, with Jeff Immelt, the head of General Electric, on frugal innovation.
Six years ago, he wrote a seminal article in The New York Times Magazine titled "The Not-So-Crackpot Autism Theory".
The battle lines was drawn up in 2003 when Mr Knaus co-authored a seminal article called Travails of the European Raj, which compared Bosnia's relations with Europe to British rule in India.
In the late 1960s he wrote a seminal article on inflation, which, along with a similar study by Milton Friedman published at about the same time, transformed how economists think about monetary and fiscal policy.
It went largely unread.But Mr Coase laboured on regardless: a second seminal article on "The Problem of Social Cost" laid the intellectual foundations of the deregulation revolution of the 1980s.
By treating academic keywords as discrete elements of evolution, this study finds that different academic niches – as defined by sets of publications which share a single seminal article in their cited reference lists – can show markedly different evolutionary patterns.
Most authors who discuss the knowledge argument cite the case of Mary, but Frank Jackson used a further example in his seminal article: the case of a person, Fred, who sees a color unknown to normal human perceivers.
Ultimately they created a list of nearly 100 papers and reports for analysis, including a few seminal articles published earlier than 2000.
IN THE dying days of the Carter administration, Ronald Reagan's principal adviser on national security, Richard Allen, handed Reagan a copy of Jeane Kirkpatrick's seminal article, "Dictatorship and Double Standards", as he boarded a plane from Washington to California.
