A HIGHLY Cited Paper
February 7th, 2013Here’s one more piquant paper for the file.
I got into a discussion yesterday about chemistry in PNAS and what important papers had been published in the journal. The best I could do off the top of my head was Lewis and Nocera’s review on powering the planet in 2006. After getting dinged from Science and Nature, most chemists seem to turn to Nature Chemistry, JACS, or Angewandte instead of PNAS.
Figuring there had to be something better, I dropped the question on the Twitter feed, and @josarc came through with this gem—a paper by Fred Sanger on DNA sequencing cited a whopping 64,989 times according to Web of Knowledge.
To put that number in perspective, it is almost 1.4 times the total sum of citations for papers by K.C. Nicolaou over his entire career (47,585).
Hot damn. This has got to be the record for chemistry, right?
February 7th, 2013 at 7:46 PM
Would you regard the folin phenol reagent paper from JBC by Oliver Lowry as a chemistry paper? It’s the highest cited paper EVER, in all of science. Quite remarkable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_H._Lowry
February 7th, 2013 at 7:52 PM
So, while we’re talking biochem / DNA, might I point you to the Lowry paper in J. Biological Chem, 1951, 265?
http://www.jbc.org/content/280/28/e25.short
Claims to be the “most cited” paper ever, with 275,669 citations as of 2004. SciFinder must “top out” at 87,000, since that’s the highest number they show for it. Google shows 230,390.
Still…those are BIG numbers!
February 7th, 2013 at 7:52 PM
See, Ash beat me to it. He’s just THAT good.
February 7th, 2013 at 8:19 PM
More fun: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v13p045y1990.pdf
February 8th, 2013 at 3:54 AM
The B3LYP paper from Becke has 38K references. Not as impressive as Lowry, but a lot of the theory papers are uber cited.
February 9th, 2013 at 3:45 AM
‘A short history of SHELX’ (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1107/S0108767307043930/abstract) published only in 2008 has already been cited almost 30,000 times. It’s the reason that Acta Cryst. A’s IF jumped to roughly 50 for a couple of years (it’s usually around 2), see: http://community.thomsonreuters.com/t5/Citation-Impact-Center/What-does-it-mean-to-be-2-in-Impact/ba-p/11386
February 11th, 2013 at 2:50 PM
My hoarse index is about 23.
February 11th, 2013 at 2:53 PM
Paul’s is : 6
Results found: 21
Sum of the Times Cited [?] : 198
Sum of Times Cited without self-citations [?] : 189
Citing Articles[?] : 183
Citing Articles without self-citations [?] : 179
Average Citations per Item [?] : 9.43
h-index [?] : 6
February 11th, 2013 at 5:39 PM
its like F***ing the spaniard you N***er wanted