Submitted by Kyle Grice / DePaul University on Wed, 01/10/2018 - 11:31

Hello BITeS readers,

I recently saw a paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution that was titled “100 Papers that Every Ecologist Should Read”. This got me thinking… what if such a list existed for chemists? What 100 papers would be on the list? As we all know, chemistry is a very broad area with many sub-disciplines… what deserves to be something that everyone should read? Rather than try to come up with the papers myself, I turned to twitter to ask chemistry tweeps what they thought. I created a form for people to enter the papers and made a call for submissions. Here’s the post with the call for papers:

https://twitter.com/GriceChemistry/status/930562634620993536

Here’s where you, dear reader, can help. I am still in the process of collecting entries, so please let me know what you think should be on the list! Once the list gets long enough, I will sort through it, clean up the citations and other info, remove duplicates, and tabulate the results. For a draft of the results as of January 1, see here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HuxjftIByIajRvoW3vX_71rgCU16wOwAkfTxg61XAQM/edit#gid=364452725

I have no idea how the list will turn out and I am really curious to see the types of papers that people suggest. Will one field dominate? Will there be a diversity of types of studies? Why do people think each paper deserves to be on the list? We will find out!

Kyle Grice / DePaul University

Hi All,

I am also looking for someone to help me read over the submissions and decide what gets included and how to sort them Let me know if you are interested!

Kyle 

Thu, 02/22/2018 - 11:22 Permalink