The most popular article in a scientific journal
At the beginning of 2000-ies the scientific journals only began to publish their materials online. Most readers were drawn up for a paid subscription for the paper version, and purchase the digital copies were rare. However, publishers understand that the future is in the digital delivery of content, so opened sites and closely monitored the attendance recalls molecular biologist Richard Grant in his blog.
One of the first online version was opened by ("Journal of Molecular Biology") from Elsevier. As expected, at first the attendance was very small. But soon the editors noticed that one of the articles in issue 324, vol. 1, 15 November 2002, enjoys high popularity. Attendance this page was many times more than all the rest. The article was entitled "Molecular analysis of the tissue localization and relationships of the Ca2+ ryanodine receptor of Caenorhabditis elegans".
Guide magazine asked the question, what is so interesting in a scientific article about Caenorhabditis elegans.
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode (round worm) with a length of about 1 mm. It is a well-studied animal with some interesting and important properties. Widely used as a model organism in studies of genetics, neurophysiology, developmental biology, computational biology. However, the uniqueness of the worm could hardly justify such a huge interest, especially because none of the visitors paid for access to the full version of the article, and was satisfied by reading of the abstract — a brief summary.
In 2002, just gained popularity recently launched the Google search engine. The investigation revealed that most of the visitors came from the search engines, and almost all used the same search query from two words.
The mystery could unravel when the editors have carefully read the contents of the essay, which contained this line:
"CeRyR found in the body wall, pharynx, vulva, anal and sexual muscles of adult worms, as well as in embryonic muscle but not in non-muscle cells".
You need to keep in mind that the word [and] is ignored by search engines when a request is processed, because recognized as an operator.
"This story has some morals, but I can not understand what" — sadly recognizes Richard Grant.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
One of the first online version was opened by ("Journal of Molecular Biology") from Elsevier. As expected, at first the attendance was very small. But soon the editors noticed that one of the articles in issue 324, vol. 1, 15 November 2002, enjoys high popularity. Attendance this page was many times more than all the rest. The article was entitled "Molecular analysis of the tissue localization and relationships of the Ca2+ ryanodine receptor of Caenorhabditis elegans".
Guide magazine asked the question, what is so interesting in a scientific article about Caenorhabditis elegans.
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode (round worm) with a length of about 1 mm. It is a well-studied animal with some interesting and important properties. Widely used as a model organism in studies of genetics, neurophysiology, developmental biology, computational biology. However, the uniqueness of the worm could hardly justify such a huge interest, especially because none of the visitors paid for access to the full version of the article, and was satisfied by reading of the abstract — a brief summary.
In 2002, just gained popularity recently launched the Google search engine. The investigation revealed that most of the visitors came from the search engines, and almost all used the same search query from two words.
The mystery could unravel when the editors have carefully read the contents of the essay, which contained this line:
"CeRyR found in the body wall, pharynx, vulva, anal and sexual muscles of adult worms, as well as in embryonic muscle but not in non-muscle cells".
CeRyR was found in the body wall, pharyngeal, vulval, anal and sex muscles of adult worms and also found to be present in embryonic muscle, but not in non-muscle cells.
You need to keep in mind that the word [and] is ignored by search engines when a request is processed, because recognized as an operator.
"This story has some morals, but I can not understand what" — sadly recognizes Richard Grant.
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