Downloaded!

I woke up in a very cranky mood.  Not good for a Wednesday.  Tracy had to put up with my grumpiness throughout our run this morning at 6am.  So, it was really nice to get the following email message this morning from colleagues in the X-ray field:

"International Centre for Diffraction has posted Advances in X-ray Analysis, the proceedings of the Denver X-ray Conference, on-line for several years for free download.

We recently completed a statistical download analysis from our website and your 2004 paper was downloaded 1,768 times just in the past year – OUTSTANDING !.You have the 10^th highest download frequency from among the ~ 1000 publications on our website. Your paper will now be

listed on “Most Frequent Downloads” on our site. This is the first year you made the “most frequent download” list with this paper – we are updating the listing and you should see this publication listed in a few weeks.  This type of download activity is not tracked by conventional citation services so I thought that you would like to know the practical consequence of writing this publication.

Your paper is also exciting in that it breaks new ground. We had both an XRD paper (#9) and this XRF paper (#10) make the most frequent download list.

These are the first pharmaceutical topical papers to make our most frequent listing and we hope it is the first of many."

This was for my paper entitled "ELEMENTAL IMAGING FOR PHARMACEUTICAL TABLET

FORMULATION ANALYSIS BY MICRO X-RAY FLUORESCENCE" which was work that I performed while a postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.  If you are so inclined, you can take a look at the paper via the following link: (and help with 2013 download statistics- ha!!!) http://www.icdd.com/resources/axa/vol48/v48_37.pdf

It is nice to know that my past work may be making some kind of difference even though I haven't "played" in a lab in years.  Maybe again someday...

Still- this does not hold a candle to my brother being voted "Mr. January" in the Swedish astrophysics world.  Seriously, I joke!  Greg was listed in the Swedish blog, "Popular Astronomi", as having the 10th most cited paper (his paper focused on Li-rich giant stars) in Sweden in 2011. You can see the link here (note it's all in Swedish). He was also asked  by the editor of Forksning & Framsteg, a Swedish popular science magazine (among the more popular of such type of magazines in Sweden), to write an article about lithium in the universe and stars for the lay population. I am so proud to be related to such stellar brains (pun - intended) and super proud that he beat me in becoming a "popular" scientist by 5 years!  Way to go Little Bro!!!!!!  (And thanks Greg and Jenny for allowing me to rip most of this text from your blog.  Ha!!!!)