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BJ paper tops most-cited list

A paper from Sir Philip Cohen and his co-workers in Dundee was recently named as the most-cited article in cell biology by a European research group over the period 1996-2007 in the September issue of Lab Times. The paper “Specificity and mechanism of action of some commonly used protein kinase inhibitors” had been cited 2,199 times (Web of Science, Thomson Scientific) by the end of May 2009. To date, there have been over 40,000 download requests for this paper from the Biochemical Journal website. Read the BJ Classic article by Alex Toker describing the importance of this paper and its companion papers to the cell signalling community.