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 This
month, in-cites talks with Dr.
Jean Robert Petit
about his paper, “Climate and atmospheric
history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok
Ice Core, Antarctica,” (Petit JR, et al.,
Nature 399[6735]: 429-36, 3 June 1999).
According to Essential
Science Indicators, this paper has been cited 967 times to
date, and is currently ranked at #3 among
Geosciences papers published in the past decade. |
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 Founded
in 1972, the journal Geothermics
is published by Elsevier. Editor-in-Chief Dr.
Marcelo J. Lippmann and Associate Editor Mrs. Mary
Helen Dickson about the journal's history and
citation achievements.
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 Dr.
Lincoln Lauhon discusses his highly cited
research on semiconductor nanowires. Dr. Lauhon’s
work in the field of Chemistry recently entered
the top 1% in terms of total citations in Essential
Science Indicators. Dr. Lauhon is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Materials Science &
Engineering at Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois. |
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 Dr.
Otis Brown, the Dean of the University of Miami’s
Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,
talks about the School’s citation record in the
field of Geosciences. Within the University of
Miami itself, Geosciences ranks at #4 according to
total cites among the 13 fields in the database in
which the University of Miami has published
papers. |
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Top Ten Most-Cited Journals (All Fields), 1996-2006 |
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The
100 Most-Cited Scientists in:
Biology
& Biochemistry, Chemistry, Economics
& Business, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular
Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience, Pharmacology &
Toxicology, Physics.
Time period: 1996-June 30, 2006. |
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Twenty
Years of Citation Superstars! |
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"Super Hot" Papers in Science
Published Since 2003
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