Various reasons for this interesting phenomena, one that springs to my mind : it could that these papers were overshadowed by latter relevant works from the same authour. Another could be the time between concept ideation and progress in real world applications. Intestellar travels research might be citing basic obscure ideas formulated in this century on space time quantum physics generations down the road :) . Maybe .
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Yes, a researcher must have truly in fact the foresight to do research in very obscure area. Just imagine Karl Pearson’s paper on “On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space” was published in 1901 and cited for the first time in 2002 and he passed away in 1936. He left a timeless legacy and paper.