For your amusement, consider this short list of super-cited papers in the life sciences. Incidentally, since they are all over 25 years old, they don’t affect the calculation of their journal’s impact factor. The Lowry paper was recently discussed in Journal of Biological Chemistry but the authors failed to mention Lowry’s own commentary on this most-cited
paper in the history of science. Lowry himself noted that it was not his most important paper. I have not included here super cited books such as Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual by Maniatis and Sambrook which appeared in numerous editions beginning with 1982. They have
been cited in at least 150,000 papers. This is my way of reminding those who are book authors, that SCI, SSCI and A&HCI do include citations to books as well as individual chapters of books.