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On Friday 22 February 2008 08:11, William Scott wrote: > Hi Citizenry: > > This is worth reading: > > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/451887d.html > > Without knowingly doing so, I've short-cited coot and probably other > crystallographic software in this way. I hope one > day to redeem myself. Indeed. I have raised this issue with several publishers, though I didn't manage to interest Nature in publishing it as a letter. As the letter from Frank Seeber points out, this is in particular problematic for the citation of methods papers. To this I would add citation of programs and databases. Any solution to the problem of dropped citations must be solved jointly by the journals and by the abstracting services (ISI, PubMed). I encourage you all to raise this issue whenever you submit a paper for publication that has suppplementary material. -- Ethan A Merritt Courier Deliveries: 1959 NE Pacific Dept of Biochemistry Health Sciences Building University of Washington - Seattle WA 98195-7742