At an international conference held at Dundee from Jun 24th-26th to mark Philip Cohen's 21 years as the Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Philip was presented with an "Outstanding Contributor Award" from the Biochemical Journal by Peter Shepherd, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Peter mentioned that the papers Philip and his research team have published in the Biochemical Journal have accumulated more than 10,000 citations, and this body of work alone has an H-factor of 37 (37 papers cited 37 or more times). The most highly cited paper that introduced the importance of profiling the specificities of protein kinase inhibitors (Davies et al, 2000, Biochem. J. 351, 95-105) has been cited nearly 3000 times and was downloaded from the Biochemical Journal website over 7,600 times in the year 2004 alone. Papers published in the Biochemical Journal by scientists at the University of Dundee have accumulated more than 34,000 citations and Peter said that the continued support for the journal by Dundee scientists had in large part been due to the encouragement provided by Philip as well as by his colleagues in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit.