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An interview with:
Dr.
Keith Crandall |
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December
2001
Dr. Keith Crandall is the lead author of "Considering
evolutionary processes in conservation biology," (Trends
in Ecology & Evolution 15[7]: 290-5, July 2000), which
has been selected by ISI
Essential Science Indicators
Web product
as a Fast-Breaking
Paper in Environment/Ecology, a paper published in the
past two years that has received the most citations in its
particular field. Dr. Crandall is the Director of the Crandall
Lab in the Department of Zoology at Brigham Young University
in Provo, Utah.
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An essay by:
Dr.
Larry Squire |
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November
2001
The ESI database indicates that Dr. Larry Squire’s paper, "Memory and the hippocampus—a synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans,"
(Psychol. Rev. 99 [2]: 195-231, April 1992) has been cited a total of 1,125 times to date, making it the second most-cited paper in the Psychiatry/Psychology discipline of the past decade. In this essay, Dr. Squire addresses this particular paper, discussing its origins and examining the reasons for its high citation rate among his fellow researchers.
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An essay by:
Dr.
Ana M. Soto |
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October
2001
In this essay, Dr. Ana M. Soto relates the pathways of her career that led her to become a highly cited author in the field of Environment & Ecology. Dr. Soto has 10 papers with a total of 1,448 citations listed in ESI, placing her among the 10 most-cited authors of her particular field. Dr. Soto is a Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
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An essay by:
Dr.
Minze Stuiver |
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October
2001
Dr.
Minze Stuiver, the second-most-cited scientist in the field of
Geosciences, writes about his educational experiences and some
of the highlights of his long career in Isotope Geology.
Twenty-nine of Dr. Stuiver’s papers have been cited a total
of 2,745 times to date. His most-cited paper is,
"Extended C-14 data-base and revised calib 3.0 C-14 age
calibration program," (Radiocarbon, 35[1]: 215-30, 1993),
which has been cited 1,183 times.
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An interview with:
Dr. Philip G. Reeves |
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September
2001
Dr. Philip G. Reeves of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center discusses his highly cited work in the field of agriculture. Dr. Reeves is the lead author of the paper, "AIN-93 purified diets for laboratory rodents – final report of the American Institution of Nutrition ad hoc writing committee on the reformulation of the AIN-76A rodent diet,"
(Journal of Nutrition, 123[11]:1939-51, November 1993), which had been cited 315 times at the time of our analysis, making it the second-most-cited paper of the 1990s in agricultural
research.
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An essay by:
Dr. Henk A. van der Vorst |
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September
2001
Dr. Henk A. van der Vorst discusses what influenced his decision to pursue a career in mathematics and what led him to produce his highly cited work, "Bi-CGSTAB – a fast and smoothly converging variant of Bi-CG for the solution of nonsymmetric linear-systems,"
(Siam J. Sci., 13[2]: 631-644, March 1992). This paper has been cited 379 times, making it the most-cited paper of the 1990s in the field of mathematics. Dr. van der Vorst joined the Mathematical Institute of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1990 as a full professor in applied mathematics.
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An essay by:
Dr.
Robert Barro |
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August
2001
Dr. Robert J. Barro, the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, discusses his highly cited work in the framework of the evolution of economic growth models. In our analysis of high-impact papers in economics, five of Dr. Barro’s papers were cited a total of 852 times, making him the most-cited economics author of the past decade. His most-cited paper is "Economic growth in a cross section of countries,"
Quarterly Journal of Economics 106[2]:407-43, May 1991, which has been cited 577 times to date.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Marc A. Pfeffer |
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August
2001
Dr. Marc A.
Pfeffer is the lead author of "Effect of
captopril on mortality and morbidity in patients with
left-ventricular dysfunction after
myocardial-infarction—results of the Survival and
Ventricular Enlargement Trial" (New Engl. J.
Med. 327[10]: 669-77 September 3, 1992), which has
been cited 2,056 times, placing it among the top 10
most-cited papers of the 1990s. In this essay, Dr.
Pfeffer discusses the origins of the SAVE trial: the
animal studies performed by his wife, Dr. Janice
Pfeffer.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Axel Becke |
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July
2001
In this interview, Dr. Axel Becke of Queen’s
University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, discusses his
highly cited work on the density-functional theory of
atomic and molecular structure. Six of Dr. Becke’s
papers on this topic have been cited a total of 4,663
times.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Simon Levin |
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July
2001
Dr. Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of
Biology in Princeton University’s Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, discusses his highly cited work,
"The problem of pattern and scale in ecology," (Ecology, 73(6): 1943-67, December 1992). This review has been
cited 418 times to date, making it the most-cited paper of the
1990s in the field of environmental research.
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An essay by:
Dr. Salvador Moncada |
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July
2001
Dr. Salvador Moncada discusses the impact his highly cited review, "Nitric oxide – physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology,"
(Pharmacol. Rev., 43[2]: 109-42, June 1991) has had on the scientific community, as well as what it means to be highly cited. Dr. Moncada is the group leader for the Cardiovascular Research portion of the Cruciform Project at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College London.
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