Editorial

Top ten in Journal of Biology in 2009: stem cells, influenza, pit bulls, Darwin, and more

Miranda Robertson

• Correspondence: Miranda Robertson editorial@jbiol.com

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:102 doi:10.1186/jbiol210

Published: 31 December 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

This is a more or less frivolous look at the top ten most accessed articles - of any kind - published in Journal of Biology this year. Frivolous, because the validity of any conclusions drawn from this statistic is undermined by many considerations. The number of times an article is accessed does not measure how many people actually read it, nor, for most articles, is it any indication of how much it will be cited (itself an imperfect measure of importance): it is most likely to reflect what people think they want to read about.