While doing some research for [thread=372311]this thread[/thread], I came across the following paper, which has a preprint available online at http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512262.
Monwhea Jeng, 2006. “The Mpemba effect: When can hot water freeze faster than cold?” American Journal of Physics, volume 74, number 6.
Cecil’s column is quoted on page 5 of the paper, and it is number 26 in the references section: “Straight Dope” archives, http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_098b.html.
I was wondering whether Cecil has been previously referenced by any scholarly journals or other academic publications, or is this a first?
I searched for “Cecil Adams” on scholar.google.com, and it brought up five hits.
The first is an article in “Mass Media” (evidently a journal) called “Gendered Media: The Influence of Media on the Views of Gender”. It cites Who decided women should shave their legs and underarms?, but only as “C. Adams, The Straight Dope, Triangle Comic Review.” 
The second is called “On the origins of :-)” and appeared in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. The authors cites Who invented the smiley face? for the statement “One commentator called the smiley face ‘a nickel-sized depiction of a guy who’s just had a prefrontal lobotomy.’”
The 3rd, 4th, and 5th are all basically the same biased publication by a homophobic named Paul Cameron that cites Cecil Adams and The Straight Dope for the claim that homosexuals insert things like bottles, carrots, and gerbils into their rectums. I believe he’s referring to Is it true what they say about gerbils?.
Let me amend that: “The Straight Dope” had five hits for citations. Some of the books were also cited:
The paper “Missionary Positions” in the journal Current Anthropology cites Return of the Straight Dope.
A question-answer column in Chemical Education Today cites Triumph of the Straight Dope as “a popular syndicated question-answer column” on Lavoisier’s beheading.
There are a few more, including the paper you mention in the OP.
I googled the “Triangle Comic Review.” Evidently it is (or was) a free weekly newspaper from North Carolina that ran the Straight Dope column.
By the way, thanks for finding all those references! I’ve never used scholar.google.com before, but I’ll have to try it out.
Looking on JSTOR, Cecil’s column On “Let’s Make a Deal,” you pick Door #1. Monty opens Door #2–no prize. Do you stay with Door #1 or switch to #3? is cited in
Ed Barbeau, Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Mar., 1993), pp. 149-154
