If you were to print out just the first page of every item indexed (Thomson Reuter´s Web of Science holds some 58 million publications) the stack of paper would reach almost to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro (6,000m). Only 14,499 papers (a meter and half´s worth) have more than 1,000 citations. In contrast, over 25 million papers (43%) have never been cited.