[ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

[Victor Lamzin]

Dear All,

I would like to bring to your attention the recent Editorial in Acta 
Cryst D (http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2010/12/00/issconts.html), 
which highlights the long-standing issue of under-citation of papers 
published in the IUCr journals. The Editorial, having looked at the 
papers published in 2009 in Nature, Science, Cell and PNAS, concluded:

'almost half of all references to publications in IUCr journals end up 
being published in the supplementary material only... Not only does this 
mean that the impact factor of IUCr journals should be higher, but also 
that the real overall numbers of citations of methods papers are much 
higher than what is reported, for instance, by the Web of Science'

Although this topic may seem to concern mostly methods developers, I 
think the whole research community will only benefit from more fair 
credit that we all give to our colleagues via referencing their 
publications. What do you think?

Victor