According to ISI, the following list gives the 50 most cited chemists; http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/citation.html Interesting that the top 10 includes many computational chemists, and that crystallographers feature highly. It is claimed that this list almost certainly includes the names of 6-10 Nobel laureates-to-be! I wonder what this list says about a) what citations mean anyway (and even more controversially, what the "impact factor" of cites per paper means) b) Does it say anything about what people consider the important areas of chemistry have been, or will be? c) Is it worth drawing any demographic conclusions from these names? d) I wonder when/if the ISI will consider hyperlinked citations on the Web to qualify for their count!! Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (u)nsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)