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 Dr.
Shamit Kachru
talks about his highly cited paper, "de Sitter vacua in string theory," (Kachru S.,
et al., Phys. Rev. D 68[4]: art. no. 046005, 15 August 2003). According to
Essential Science Indicators, this paper, which has been cited 267 times to date, was named one of the top Hot Papers in Physics for November 2005. Dr. Kachru’s record in Physics includes 50 papers cited a total of 2,115 times to date. |
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 Dr. Bruce Avolio talks
about his highly cited work on leadership.
According to Essential
Science Indicators, Dr. Avolio’s work recently garnered
the highest percent increase
in total citations in the field of Economics &
Business. Dr. Avolio’s current record in
this field includes 20 papers cited a total of 227
times to date. Dr. Avolio is the Clifton Chair in
Leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
the Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute,
and a Senior Research Scientist at the Gallup
Organization. |
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talks with Professor Martin Orrell, one of the
editors of the journal Aging
& Mental Health, about the journal’s
citation record in Psychiatry & Psychology.
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 Dr.
William Curington, the Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs for the Sam
M. Walton College of Business at the
University of Arkansas, talks about the College’s
recent citation achievements. |
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 Ten-year
country rankings for Australia
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The
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Biology
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Economics
& Business, Immunology,
Microbiology, Molecular
Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience,
Pharmacology &
Toxicology, Physics.
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