The September 14th 2011 issue of Lab Times has published citation data for the period 1998-2009 in the field of "Protein Research". MRC-PPU Programme Leaders Philip Cohen and Dario Alessi were named as the 8th and 13th most cited European scientists in the list with 16,244 and 14,431 citations, respectively for papers published between 1998 and 2009. Scotland ranked number one in the world in terms of citations per paper (31.3 citations per paper) with Switzerland 2nd (30.2), England 3rd (29.2) and the USA 15th (20.6)! Remarkably, Philip (134 papers) and Dario (125 papers) published nearly 7% of Scotland's papers in the field of protein research between 1998-2009 (they only co-authored four papers over this period)! Philip's paper published in 2000, which introduced the technology of kinase profiling (Davies et al, Biochem J. 351, 95-105) was the fifth most cited European paper in this field with 2605 citations.