Even Citation Counts Bring the Human Genome Papers to a Tie

Steven Salzberg has come up with his list of the top 10 genome papers ever published. To make the roundup objective, he chose to rank papers based on the number of citations they've gotten (acknowledging that this measure leads to a bias toward older papers). The results were split evenly in journals -- five from Science, five from Nature -- and "include 5 bacteria, 3 model organisms, and the two human genome papers right at the top," he writes. Funnily enough, ISI citations listed the public consortium's human genome as first, while Google Scholar ranked the Venter group's paper first.