Instead of Cites, a Hot Site for 'Cool' Genome Map

摘要

There's something very odd happening in our Hot Paper listing. Two things determine popularity: interest and utility. Interest is surely keeping HIV and apoptosis at the forefront. And, probably, the complete gene sequence of the archaeon bacterium Methanococcus jannaschii. But why has one map of the human genome been in the Top Ten almost without exception since it was published (Dib et al., paper #5), while another, older map has only just crept into notice at #14? (See T.J. Hudson, et al., "An STS-based map of the human genome," Science, 270[5244]: 1945-54, 22 December 1995; 35 cites this period.)