Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Thesis
  • Published:

Lost history versus good science

Nature Chemistry volume 3, pages 832–833 (2011)Cite this article

Subjects

The historical context in which a scientific paper is published is an important factor that should not be overlooked, suggest Qian Wang and Chris Toumey.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: Profiles of the 1907 Pickering and 2002 Dinsmore articles, from Thomson Scientific's Journal Citation Report on May 13, 2011.

References

  1. Dinsmore, A. et al. Science 298, 1006–1009 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Lin, Y., Skaff, H., Emrick, T., Dinsmore, A. D. & Russell, T. P. Science 299, 226–229 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Pickering, S. J. Chem. Soc. 91, 2001–2021 (1907).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Pieranski, P. Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 569–572 (1980).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Binks, B. & Clint, J. H. Langmuir 18, 1270–1273 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Stent, G. Sci. Am. 84–93 (December 1972).

  7. Nature Chem. 3, 649 (2011).

  8. Traweek, S. Beamtimes and Lifetimes 77 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1988).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Qian Wang is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina,

    Qian Wang

  2. Chris Toumey is in the University of South Carolina NanoCenter,

    Chris Toumey

Authors
  1. Qian Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Chris Toumey
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Qian Wang or Chris Toumey.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Wang, Q., Toumey, C. Lost history versus good science. Nature Chem 3, 832–833 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1179

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1179

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing