Volume 89, Issue 1, January (2003), pp. 146-155 © The Author 2003
doi:10.1079/BJN2003774

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BJN ‘Citation Classic’

Paul Trayhurn, Editor-in-Chief

We are pleased to reproduce on the following pages an article by Durnin & Rahaman (1967) entitled “The assessment of the amount of fat in the human body from measurements of skinfold thickness”, which appeared in the British Journal of Nutrition in 1967. As I indicated in an editorial in the journal in July of last year (Trayhurn, 2003), the data we have indicates that this is the most highly cited article that the BJN has published. Interrogation of the Science Citation Index indicates that the study has received more than 700 citations (720 by October 2003). Since this figure is based only on those journals that are included in the Science Citation Index database and does not include citations in books and monographs, the true extent to which it has been cited is even greater.

From time to time we expect to reprint other “Citation Classic” from the BJN.