It’s just over eight years since I moved out of science. Usually around this time each year, a friend who’s applying for another grant sends me an update on my citations, which gives me an opportunity to reflect on that period.
In just over ten years of publishing, I was an author on 18 articles. They’ve now been cited 2317 times, for an average of 129 citations per paper. That results in an h-index of 15. Eight years later, my citation rate is still increasing, which is nice.
My most highly-cited paper is the Acta Crystallographica
B article which was a summary of my PhD research, and has now been cited 561 times.
It’s also nice to see that, almost every month, a paper is published that uses a Hirshfeld surface or a fingerprint plot as its highlight image. Some randomly-selected examples from 2016:
- High-pressure studies of three polymorphs of a palladium(II) oxathioether macrocyclic complex
- Crystal engineering: co-crystals of cinnamic acid derivatives with a pyridyl derivative co-crystallizer
- Experimental and theoretical charge-density analysis of 1,4-bis(5-hexyl-2-thienyl)butane-1,4-dione: applications of a virtual-atom model
- Crystal engineering: co-crystals of cinnamic acid derivatives with a pyridyl derivative co-crystallizer
(that’s two articles in on issue of Acta B). I have to admit I’m a little surprised that this postscript code (right) I wrote back in 2002 is still being used, unchanged.
- Synthesis and characterization of four organic–inorganic salts: sulfates of 2-aminopyridinium derivatives
- Redetermination of the crystal structure of boron subphthalocyanine chloride (Cl-BsubPc) enabled by slow train sublimation
- 3′:5′-Cyclic nucleotides: two sodium salts of cdTMP
There are lots more examples.