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Editorial

Nature Nanotechnology 3, 241 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.131

Still feeling the force

When seeking to convey the impact that the atomic force microscope (AFM) has had on science, authors often quote the number of times the original paper by Gerd Binning, Calvin Quate and Christoph Gerber has been cited since it was published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) in 1986. According to the Web of Science, this paper had received more than 5,200 citations at the time of writing.