A nicely written article in the New York Times about entanglement: Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein’s Strangest Theory by Dennis Overbye (author of “Einstein in Love”.) Interestingly, the article claims that the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen paper is now Einstein’s most cited paper. Of course a lot of this is because this is one of Einstein’s most controversial papers. But I think quantum information science has got a lot to do with this as well. Take a look at this plot from S. Redner’s physics/0407137 “Citation Statistics From More Than a Century of Physical Review”:
In 1994 Peter Shor showed quantum computetrs could factor and EPR hasn’t been the same since. Well and certainly those working in electron paramagnetic resonance have had a tougher time finding their own literature!
On a related note, for an interesting take on Einstein’s own view of the EPR paper you might be interested in reading The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory 
O brave new quantum world!
I think part of the reason that it’s his most cited paper is that no one bothers to cite “E=mc^2” anymore. It makes me wonder: are there other ways to measure impact beyond citations (or citation based schemes, like the h-index)?
I have noticed an amazing physical phenomenon when I play bridge. When I observe my hand and it has all four aces, it invariably prevents my partner’s hand from having any. What I do with my hand affects the probability cloud of his hand, no matter how far away he is. The experiment has been done many times, with consistent results. Incredible! Action at a distance!
Ah, come on Greg. It wasn’t THAT bad. Or are you just making fun of Einstein 😉
Looks to me like the EPR citations have been, roughly, growing linearly starting in the mid-196os… Bell’s paper on inequalities and hidden variables was published in 1964. Still, perhaps the modest 3-year downtrend reversed in 1994 is some evidence for QI’s impact on EPR citations.
Howard I think you might be flipping the EPR paper and the KS (Kohn-Sham density functional theory) paper?