4th annual Best of Cell compendia. - Cell Press, 2015. - 226 p. - We have selected the papers presented here based on a number of criteria. We began by looking at the most highly read papers based on article downloads and html usage. Within this list, we sought papers that best represent the scope and breadth of Cell. We’ve included papers that we were exceptionally excited about when they first came in, papers that we found ourselves talking about in the hallways of the office and at the proverbial water cooler, and papers that the reviewers were extremely enthusiastic about. Additionally, we’ve considered the altmetric rankings of all papers published in 2015 to give perspective and depth to our collection.
Looking at the papers with the greatest numbers of downloads gives a sense of which papers caught the eye of a large swath of the scientific community. Of course, this measure is heavily slanted towards articles published in the beginning of the year, so we took efforts to control for that.
In addition to Reviews and Articles, we’ve also included a selection of SnapShots that we hope will pique your interest and help your research. New for 2015 is the Timeline short format, and we’ve included the first two of those as well.
