'seminal article' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a published article, paper or book that is foundational or revolutionary in its field and that has had a major impact. For example, "John Smith's seminal article on physics has been widely acclaimed and heavily cited."
In his first year as a faculty member, at Washington University, he published a seminal article on nuclear magnetic resonance.
In 2010 two legal academics, Marcel Kahan and Edward Rock, published a seminal article on "Embattled CEOs".
Prahalad published his seminal article on "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" in 2002, and the book of the same title in 2004.
But they might not have got far had it not been for a stroke of luck.In January 2007 a seminal article appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
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".
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.
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.
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.
Professor Bellah, who was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton in 2000, came to wide attention in 1967 with a seminal article, "Civil Religion in America".
