I forget who, probably Hamming, said his most cited paper ever was just an intro to statistics for biologists. This is not a new thing and it's not a bad thing.

I forget who, probably Hamming, said his most cited paper ever was just an intro to statistics for biologists. This is not a new thing and it's not a bad thing. Papers are meant to spread information. If a field isn't aware that another field has solved a problem of theirs than even a 101 level paper is worth writing.