Newsbite: Fungal Paper Celebrates Rare 10,000th Citation

Submitted by Aspergillus Administrator on 19 September 2012

Scientific papers are carefully managed as much rests on their impact. A paper that is referred to in another publication (cited) is clearly important or significant enough for another research group to quote its findings. Most scientific papers might be cited 10 – 100 times. The paper memorably entitled “Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics” recently achieved the rare accolade of being cited over 10 000 times more…