Highly cited paper of IJBB: a report.

has entered into its fiftieth year of publication in the year 2013. The journal began to be indexed in Science Citation Index since it came into being in 1964 as the Indian Journal of Biochemistry (renamed as Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1971) and has indexed 6646 papers from the journal since. In 2012, the journal for the first time crossed the Impact Factor (IF) 1.000. As per the ISI Web of Knowledge's Journal Citation Reports 2011, Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics ranks 11th among the 100 Indian journals indexed in JCR and has an IF value 1.142. It is well-known that the impact factor of a journal is primarily based on the number of citations received by the articles published in the journal and as such the quality of a journal depends on the quality of articles published in a journal. Generally, articles that receive 100 or more citations have been referred to as highly cited articles 1,2. There are several factors that make an article highly cited and it varies from discipline to discipline. A recent work looked at articles that receive huge citations (in the order of 1000+ citations) and such hugely cited papers have been referred to as champion works 3. Highly cited papers, i.e. papers that have received 100 or more citations have been studied by various authors 4-9. However, hugely cited papers or the champion works that are an indicator for identifying milestone works have not been widely studied. It was revealed that there are 38 papers with at least one author from India that have received 1000 or more citations 3. Interestingly, out of these 38 papers, only paper is from an Indian journal while all the other papers that have received 1000+ citations have been published in foreign journals. The lone Indian paper is: Kakkar P, Das B and Viswanathan P N (1984) A modified spectrophotmetric assay of superoxide-dismutase. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics 21 (2), 130-132. The paper describes a simple and rapid method for the assay of superoxide dismutase in biological samples. The method takes advantage of the inhibition of NADS-dependent-nitroblue tetrazolium reduction by the dismutase. The study found that inhibition of the chromogen formaton by superoxide dismutase was linear with increase in enzyme concentrations and the chromogen extract in butanol was stable even up to 48 h 10. As per the Science Citation Index-Expanded database …