Paul Martin has been an Editor for The Journal of Physiology since 2009 and suggested the idea of the Century Citation Club.
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A century is justly a cause for celebration – whether it is a ripe old age, runs in the grand British game of cricket or citations for those truly exceptional research papers. So this week we launch the Century Citation Club: a celebration of high-impact papers published in The Journal of Physiology.
The Century Citation Club comprises research papers which attract over 100 citations within ten years of publication. This is an achievement that we certainly think is worth recognition and celebration: everyone knows that papers are more often cited for being right than for being wrong or boring (or both).
Ian Forsythe is Reviews Editor for The Journal of Physiology and is always on the lookout for exciting topics for Review articles.
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One hundred citations represents a citation rate roughly twice the average for the Journal of Physiology and then maintained for a decade; these papers are exceptional, they have made their mark and changed their fields.
When a paper achieves Century Citation status the authors will receive a congratulatory letter, a discount code for book purchases from our publisher Wiley-Blackwell, and free colour figures in print in their next research paper published in The Journal of Physiology. Authors of Century Citation papers will also be invited to contribute to our Topical Reviews or Classical Perspectives series, where they can explain how the paper has taken the field forward.
You can view Century Citation Club papers at http://jp.physoc.org/site/misc/century.xhtml
New papers will be added as they reach a century. We hope you enjoy this new feature, and we are looking forward to many great Centuries to come!