After giving a brief overview of Eugene Garfield contributions to the issue of identifying and studying the most cited scientific articles, manifested in the creation of his Citation Classics, the main characteristics and features of Google Scholar new service Classic Papers, as well as its main strengths and weaknesses, are addressed. This product currently displays the most cited English-language original research articles by fields and published in 2006
@article{arxiv.1706.09258,
title = {Classic papers: d\'ej\`a vu, a step further in the bibliometric exploitation of Google Scholar},
author = {Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar and Alberto Martin-Martin and Enrique Oduna-Malea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09258},
year = {2017}
}