A controlled study on the sociology of science:
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
We published last year two papers on bacterial toxins in the same journal ("Molecular Systems Biology"), edited by the same editor, both describe discovery of toxins associated with secretion systems that were predicted computationally and validated
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The difference: T6SS has a large community because it is found in many pathogens, eCIS is found in more bizarre environmental bacteria and
The outcome:
9 citations till now for the T6SS paper
0 citations till now for the eCIS paper.