I recently ran a quick search using PubMed and Google scholar and, altought I cannot provide any RAW-statistical data here, I was positively surprised about the amount of citations PLOS one paper are getting overall.

I was suprised since:

1) Plos One is a faily new journal.

2) I found that many papers are cited within a few months after appearance.

Anyways I am going a bit off topic here and I take this opportunity to congratulate the authors of this article, which showed once again that, especially for Fungi, much more carefullness is required to assign DNA sequences to a given species (and even higher taxonomical rankings).

I've been working on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for some time, and I still remember finding that (around 50%) of the sequences present in the databases at that time, were wrongly assigned to different genera or even diferent fungal phyla! (yes different Phyla, not species!). This is apparently not the case anymore but it still happens.

E.g. Redecker et al. 1999, Schüssler 1999, Corradi et al. 2004.

Best

Nicolas