I haven't been in academia for almost 5 years, but it's nice to see that my research hit a 1000 citations last year alone.
For anyone out of academia, there are a couple of nice milestones I looked for and many others do too, the first citation, the first 100, the first 1000 etc.
Most academics never reach 10k and 1k in a year is not bad at all.
For those less familiar with it, a citation simply means another researcher has used and referenced your work in their own. It’s one of the signals that indicate that what you built is still being read, used, and shaping ongoing research somehow.
btw citation is not impact ;-)