I think that people who do this are not really crystallographers (at
least to me) since they do not give credit to the effort that produces a
structure. That is why that I always insist on proper refereeing when I
review a manuscript. Maybe it is time for this community to ask journals
to put it on their requirement rules for publishing. Otherwise only the
PDB takes credit (I think is like mentioning just the journal but not
the authors when reference to a paper).
Demetres
On 25/7/2012 3:33 ??, Radisky, Evette S., Ph.D. wrote:
Somewhat OT: question of professional courtesy
Dear bb,
This morning as I scanned an accepted manuscript from a
well-respected-but-not-particularly-glamorous journalthat publishes
manymacromolecularstructures, I came across a briefmention of
homologyand rmsdwith a published structure listed by PDB accession
number, but no citation of theprimary reference for this structure.
(OK, so I wouldn't have noticed or cared had it not been one of
mine.) The paper did not have a lot of references, so it was not due
to limitation in the number of refs permitted.
I havealwaysthoughtit a matter of professional courtesyto cite the
appropriate reference when one uses and mentionsastructure from the
PDB, but as I think back, I realize no oneexplicitly told me this--it
is just an assumption that I made. Maybe I am the one with
unrealistic expectations here? Is there ageneralconsensusamong
crystallographerson thispractice?
Thanks!
Evette
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