An interesting bit of trivia about the Burrows-Wheeler transform is that it was rejected when submitted to a conference for publication, and so citations just point to a DEC technical report, rather than a journal or conference article.
I only know the story from word-of-mouth. My understanding is that the submitted paper wasn't written/presented well, and reviewers had trouble understanding the significance of what was being proposed. But take that story with a big grain of salt.
