in cites
provides a behind-the-scenes look at the scientists, journals,
institutions, nations, and papers selected by the ISI
Essential Science Indicators
(ESI) Web product. Read interviews and first-person essays about people
in a wide variety of fields and professions. View
selected overall and field rankings, pertinent statistics on the
principles behind the data, the latest version of the database,
including new entrants and most-improved entities in the rankings,
information on field definitions, citation thresholds, and
graphing trends. Updated weekly is SCI-BYTES: a summary of what’s
new in research.
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 in-cites correspondent Gary Taubes talks
with Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne about his highly cited paper,
"The molecular biology of axon guidance," (Tessier-Lavigne,
M., and Goodman, C.S., Science 274[5290]: 1123-33, 15
November 1996). This paper is currently ranked at #6 among
Neuroscience & Behavior papers published in the past
decade, with 1,226 citations to date. Dr. Tessier-Lavigne is the Senior Vice President for
Research Drug Discovery at Genentech, Inc., in San Francisco.
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 This
month, in-cites presents a listing of the top 20 scientists
in clinical medicine who, as of
the latest bimonthly update of the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators Web product, attracted the highest total citations
to their papers published in ISI-indexed journals of Clinical Medicine
over the past 10 years. These names are the top 20 out of a pool of
14,101 scientists comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count
in this field.
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 The
Morehouse School of
Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, achieved the highest percent
increase in total citations in the field of Social Sciences.
Morehouse’s record includes 382 papers cited a
total of 4,636 times to date in the field of
Clinical Medicine. Dr. Daniel Blumenthal, the
Chair of Morehouse’s Department of Community Health and
Preventive Medicine, talks about the institution’s highly
cited work in Social Sciences.
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 The journal Atmospheric
Chemistry & Physics has entered the top 50% of journals
in the field of Geosciences in the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product (see New
Entrants). The journal’s record in this field includes
440 papers cited a total of 983 times to date. Published by
the Copernicus Society, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics is
an international and interactive science journal of the
European Geosciences Union. In this interview, Chief
Executive Editor Dr. Ulrich Pöschl discusses the journal’s
history, goals, and citation record.
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 The 20 most-cited countries in
Physics
for 1995-April 30, 2005 according to the ISI Essential Science
Indicators Web product...
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Presents the Hottest
Research of 2003-04. In its latest annual
roundup of recent research, Science Watch
presents the list of authors who, as of late 2004, had
published the greatest number of Hot Papers over the
preceding two years.
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The
100 Most-Cited Scientists in:
Biology
& Biochemistry, Chemistry,
Economics
& Business, Immunology,
Microbiology, Molecular
Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience,
Pharmacology &
Toxicology, Physics.
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Hottest Journals of the Millennium (so far)
Science
Watch
presents the top 10 highest-impact journals in 11 main fields are ranked according to impact, or citations per paper, over the last six years, according to a subset of data from
ISI Essential Science Indicators.
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Twenty
Years of Citation Superstars!
Science
Watch
presents here the true
citation elite of the last two decades that
include rankings the 50 most-cited researchers of the
last 20 years, based on papers published and cited in
Thomson ISI-indexed journals between 1983 and 2002.
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- What's New in Research
What's really hot in research? Each week, the ISI Research
Services Group provides an update based on their
Research Performance & Evaluation Tools.
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New
Entrants to ISI Essential Science Indicators Rankings
The
most-cited new entrants in each of ISI Essential
Science Indicators' 22 fields, for the most recent
bimonthly update, and for earlier updates as well.
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Most
Improved
A listing of the most-improved entities in each of ISI
Essential Science Indicators' 22 fields, for the
most recent bimonthly update, and for earlier updates
as well.
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