(In case you hadn’t already spotted this…) I thought I’d just point out that the RSC journals now have a Most Read Articles tab – it’s on the right hand side of the main journal page. The list is automatically updated everyday and shows the top 15 articles from the last 30 days.
At the moment the most read article is: An all-inorganic type-II heterojunction array with nearly full solar spectral response based on ZnO/ZnSe core/shell nanowires: Zhiming Wu, Yong Zhang, Jinjian Zheng, Xiangan Lin, Xiaohang Chen, Binwang Huang, Huiqiong Wang, Kai Huang, Shuping Li and Junyong Kang, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 6020-6026.