MRC Unit Publishes Most Highly Cited Papers


One of the Unit's papers has just been named by the Biochemical Journal as their most highly cited paper published in 2003 with 191 citations as of 14 July 2005. The paper entitled 'The specificities of protein kinase inhibitors: an update' (Bain et al) described the specificities of a number of protein kinase inhibitors and was a follow up to another of the Unit's papers entitled 'Specificity and mechanism of action of some commonly used protein kinase inhibitors' (Davies et al) which was published in 2000. According to the Biochemical Journal, the paper by Davies et al has been cited 1107 times and is the most cited paper published in the Biochemical Journal for the year 2000. This paper was also the most frequently downloaded original paper from the Biochemical Journal website in 2004 (7617 times).