First Citation!

I have achieved my first citation!  I am quite happy about this.

For our research group, we read papers and discuss them, you know, like you do in research groups.  Jeff suggested the very recently published paper by Ausich and Kammer titled "Mississippian crinoid biodiversity, biogeography, and macroevolution."  I highly approved of this suggestion because it is clearly something that I am interested in and to me is much more enjoyable of a read than papers on statistics.

I started reading the paper, and maybe a paragraph in it dawns on me exactly what they are doing (I can be a bit slow on the uptake).  They are comparing crinoid faunas between North America and the British Isles during the Mississippian.  Well, my dissertation was on Mississippian crinoids of North America, particularly of an area very poorly studied.  On a whim, I skipped to the references to see if maybe, just maybe, I had gotten a cite.

Sure enough, there it was, my name in big letters with my dissertation title right next to it.

I HAVE MY FIRST CITATION!

I'm getting somewhere as a scientist.

Just too bad that they couldn't cite my real paper coming out this month and had to go with the unpublished stuff of the DFC.  But you know what? Who cares.  I certainly don't!