NATUREs top 100 papers upto now, and there are surprises!!! #DNA, #Superconductors, #Universe,...? nope. The discovery of high-temperature superconductors, the determination of DNA’s double-helix structure, the first observations that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating — all of these breakthroughs won Nobel prizes and international acclaim. Yet none of the papers that announced them comes anywhere close to ranking among the 100 most highly cited papers of all time - Richard Van Noorden, Brendan Maher& Regina Nuzzo writing in this weeks issue of Nature.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:14:59 +0000