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An interview with:
Prof. Chris Lamb |
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December
2006
Professor Chris Lamb
talks about his
paper, "The oxidative burst in plant disease
resistance," (Lamb C and Dixon RA, Annu. Rev. Plant
Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 48: 251-75, 19971).
According to Essential
Science Indicators ,
this paper currently ranks #2 among Plant & Animal Science
papers published over the past decade, with 810 citations. Professor Lamb is
the Director of the John Innes Centre and is the John Innes
Professor of Biology at the University of East Anglia.
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The Most-Cited Papers in
Materials Science, 1996-2006 |
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November
2006
This month,
in-cites presents a listing of the top 20 papers which, as
of the third bimonthly update of Essential
Science Indicators
(January 1, 1996-June 30, 2006), attracted the highest
total citations in the field of Materials Science. These
papers are the top 20 out of a pool of 3,401 papers
comprising the top 1% as determined by citation
threshold calculations for this field.
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An interview with:
Prof. Manuel C. Peitsch |
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October
2006
Professor
Peitsch is the Global Head of Systems Biology, Genome and
Protein Sciences at the Novartis Institute of Biomedical
Research in Basel, Switzerland. According to Essential
Science Indicators,
the paper "SWISS-MODEL and the Swiss-PdbViewer: an
environment for comparative protein modeling" (Guex
N, Peitsch MC, Electrophoresis 18[15]: 2714-23, December
1997) ranks at #2 among Chemistry papers published in the
past decade, with 2,684 citations to date. in-cites talks
with Professor Manuel Peitsch about this paper and its
impact on the field.
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An interview with:
Dr. Laura Bravo |
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September
2006
According to
the most recent update of the Essential
Science Indicators
database, the #1 paper published over the past decade in
the field of Agricultural Sciences is, "Polyphenols:
chemistry, dietary sources, metabolism, and nutritional
significance," (Nutr. Rev. 56[11]: 317-33,
Nov. 1998) by Dr. Laura Bravo, with 403 citations to date.
Dr. Bravo’s record in this field includes 17 papers with
a total of 639 citations to date. Dr. Bravo is currently
the Vice Director of the Instituto del Frío in Madrid,
Spain. In this interview, she talks about her highly cited
paper and her work with polyphenols.
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An interview with:
Dr. Mindy Kurzer |
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August
2006
Dr. Mindy
Kurzer discusses her highly cited paper, "Dietary
phytoestrogens," (Annu. Rev. Nutr. 17:353-81,
1997). This paper has been cited 274 times to date, and is
ranked at #5 among Agricultural Sciences papers in the Essential
Science Indicators
database. Dr. Kurzer’s work in this field includes 9
papers cited a total of 335 times to date, and her overall
record includes 28 papers cited a total of 1,141 times to
date. Dr. Kurzer is a professor in the Department of Food
Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota.
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An interview with:
Dr. Adam Riess |
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July
2006
Dr. Adam Riess
talks about his 2004 paper,
"Type IA supernova discoveries at Z>1 from the
Hubble Space Telescope: evidence for past deceleration and
constraints on dark energy evolution," (Astrophysical
Journal 607[2]: 665-87, part 1, 1 June 2004).
According to Essential
Science Indicators,
this paper has been the top Hot
Paper in Space Science since January 2006. Dr. Riess
is an Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute
and Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
MD.
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An interview with:
Dr. Paul Keck |
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June
2006
in-cites talks
with Dr. Paul Keck about his paper, "A
placebo-controlled, double-blind study of the efficacy and
safety of aripiprazole in patients with acute bipolar
mania," (Amer. J. Psychiat. 160[9]: 1651-8,
September 2003). This paper was selected by Essential
Science Indicators
as a top Hot Paper in the field of Psychiatry &
Psychology in November
2005. It had 42 cites at that time, and it has now
garnered a total of 57 cites. Dr. Keck is Professor of
Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience as well as the
Executive Vice Chairman in the Department of Psychiatry at
the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
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An interview with:
Dr. Lionel Vayssieres |
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May
2006
This month,
in-cites talks with Dr. Lionel Vayssieres, whose paper
"Growth of arrayed nanorods and nanowires of ZnO from
aqueous solutions" (Advan. Mater. 15[5]:
464-6, 4 March 2003) was designated as a top Hot Paper in May,
September,
and November
2005 in Materials Science. Dr. Vayssieres is affiliated
with the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan
and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
California. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of
the International Journal of Nanotechnology.
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An interview with:
Dr.
K.V. Rao |
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April
2006
in-cites talks
with Professor K.V. Rao about his highly cited paper,
"Ferromagnetism above room temperature in bulk and
transparent thin films of Mn-doped ZnO," (Sharma P, et
al., Nat. Mater. 2[10]: 673-7, October 2003). This
paper, which currently has 111 cites in Essential
Science Indicators,
had 82 cites when it was chosen in November
2005 as a top Hot Paper in the field of Materials
Science. Dr. Rao is currently a member of the Department
of Materials Science at the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm, Sweden.
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An interview with:
Dr. Reid Ewing |
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March
2006
Dr. Reid Ewing
talks about his highly cited paper, "Relationship
between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity,
and morbidity," (Am. J. Health Promotion
18[1]: 47-57, September-October 2003). According to Essential
Science Indicators,
this paper, which has been cited 55 times to date, was
named the top Hot
Paper in Social Sciences for November 2005. Dr. Ewing’s
record in this field includes 8 papers cited a total of
169 times to date.
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An interview with:
Dr. Shamit Kachru |
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January
2006
In this
interview, in-cites talks with Dr. Shamit Kachru 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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An interview with:
Prof.
Dr. Martin van den Berg |
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January
2006
Prof. Dr. Martin van den Berg talks about his highly cited paper, “Toxic equivalency factors (TEFs) for PCBs, PCDDs, PCDFs for humans and wildlife,”
(Environ. Health Perspect. 106[12]: 775-792, December 1998). This paper has been cited 753 times to date, ranking at #2 among highly cited papers in the field of Environment & Ecology. Prof. Dr. van den Berg’s work in
Essential Science Indicators
can be found in the fields of Environment & Ecology and Pharmacology & Toxicology.
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