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Professor
Peter Green
discusses his paper,
"Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo
computation and Bayesian model
determination," (Biometrika 82[4]:
711-732, December 1995). This paper has been cited
490 times to date and is the fourth most-cited
paper in the field of Mathematics in ESI. Professor Green is a member of the
Statistics Group in the Department of Mathematics
at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom...
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According
to a recent analysis of ESI, Dr.
Kenneth Coale’s work in the field of
Geosciences has entered
the top 1% in terms of total citations. His
record in this field now includes 19 papers cited
a total of 925 times to date. He also has 18
papers cited a total of 450 times to date in the
field of Plant & Animal Science. Dr. Coale is
the Director of the Moss Landing Marine
Laboratories in California. In this interview, he
talks about his highly cited work...
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According
to recent analyses of ESI, the UK’s Centre
for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) has
achieved the highest percent increase in total
citations among Environment/Ecology institutions,
not just once but twice in recent data updates.
CEH’s record in this field includes 326 papers
cited a total of 1,592 times to date. CEH
publishes papers on a wide variety of
environmental and ecological issues, and retains a
large amount of environmental data for the UK.
Press Officer Dr. Barnaby Smith talks about CEH’s
citation record...
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According
to ESI, the journal Dalton Transactions has been
having a growing impact in the field of Chemistry. The journal’s
current record in this field includes 1,496 papers cited a
total of 2,123 times to date. In this
interview, Dr. Jamie Humphrey, the editor for Dalton Transactions, talks about the journal’s citation...
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 This
month, in-cites presents the #1 paper
(all fields) from the top ten
countries as of the latest bimonthly update of the ISI
Essential Science Indicators Web product. Each paper contains authors from that specific country only. These countries are out of
140 nations comprising the top 50% ranked by total citation count.
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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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