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An interview with:
Dr. Mohammad Koohmaraie |
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December 2007
Dr. Mohammad
Koohmaraie discusses his highly cited paper, "Correlation of
enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 prevalence in
feces, hides, and carcasses of beef cattle during
processing" (Elder RO, et al., PNAS USA 97[7]:
2999-3003, 28 March 2000). According to Essential
Science Indicators ,
this paper currently has 255 citations to its credit. Dr.
Koohmaraie’s record in our database includes 70 papers cited
a total of 1,120 times to date in the field of Plant &
Animal Science. An animal physiologist, Dr. Koohmaraie is
the Director of the US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay
Center, Nebraska.
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An interview with:
Prof. Dr. A.L. Spek |
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November 2007
in-cites talks with
Prof. Dr. Anthony L. Spek about his paper, "Single-crystal
structure validation with the program PLATON" (J. Appl.
Cryst. 36: 7-13, Part 1, February 2003). This paper is
currently ranked at #2 among Chemistry papers in Essential
Science Indicators,
with 3,602 citations to its credit. Prof. Dr. Spek hails
from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he is the
research leader for National Single Crystal Service
Facility.
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An interview with:
Dr. Helen Berman |
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October 2007
This month, in-cites
talks with Dr. Helen Berman about her team’s paper, "The
Protein Data Bank" (Berman HM, et al., Nucl. Acid. Res.
28[1]: 235-42, 1 January 2000). According to Essential
Science Indicators,
this paper is currently ranked at #4 among Biology &
Biochemistry papers published in the past decade, with 5,006
total cites. Dr. Berman is a Professor in the Chemistry and
Chemical Biology Department at Rutgers University.
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An interview with:
Dr. Henrik Nielsen |
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September 2007
Dr. Henrik Nielsen
discusses his paper, "Identification of prokaryotic and
eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage
sites" (Nielsen H, et al., Protein Eng.
10[1]: 1-6, January 1997). With 3,144 citations to date,
this paper ranks at #6 among Biology & Biochemistry papers
in Essential
Science Indicators,
and at #22 over all fields in the database. Dr. Nielsen is a
Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark.
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An interview with:
Dr. Gary Gilliland
& Dr. Ross Levine |
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August 2007
Dr. Gary Gilliland
and Dr. Ross Levine talk about their paper, "Activating
mutation in the tyrosine kinase JAK2 in polycythemia vera,
essential thrombocythemia, and myeloid metaplasia with
myelofibrosis" (Cancer Cell 7[4]: 387-97, April
2005). According to
Essential Science Indicators,
this paper is currently the #1
Hot Paper in
the field of Biology & Biochemistry, with 267 citations to
date. Both Dr. Gilliland and Dr. Levine hail from the
Department of Medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s
Hospital.
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An interview with:
The Haploview Team |
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July 2007
The paper describing
the Haploview software package, "Haploview: analysis and
visualization of LD and haplotype maps" (Barrett JC, et
al., Bioinformatics 21[2]: 263-5, 15 January 2005), has
been receiving a great deal of citation attention. At the
end of 2006, it was one of the top Hot Papers in Computer
Science, according to
Essential Science Indicators.
in-cites talks with Haploview team member, David Bender,
about the software’s success.
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An interview with:
Dr. David M. Sabatini |
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June 2007
MIT’s Dr. David
Sabatini discusses his highly cited paper, "Phosphorylation
and regulation of Akt/PKB by the rictor-mTOR complex," (Sarbassov
DD, et al., Science 307[5712]: 1098-1101, 18 February
2005). This paper was named a
Hot
Paper in the field of Biology & Biochemistry, and is
currently a Highly Cited Paper in Molecular Biology &
Genetics, with 224 citations to date. Dr. Sabatini is a
member of the Whitehead Institute and Assistant Professor of
Biology at MIT.
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An interview with:
Prof. Dr. K.P. Lesch |
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May 2007
in-cites talks with
Dr. Klaus-Peter Lesch about his
paper, "Association of anxiety-related traits with a
polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene regulatory
region," (Science 274[5292]: 1527-31, 29 November
1996), as well as his related research. This paper has been
named a Highly Cited Paper in the field of Neuroscience &
Behavior by
Essential Science Indicators,
and currently has a total of 1,160 citations to its credit. Dr. Lesch is Professor and Vice Chair of Molecular and Clinical
Psychobiology as well as Director of the
ADHD Program at the
University of Würzburg in Germany.
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An interview with:
Prof. C. Oliver Kappe |
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April 2007
Professor C. Oliver Kappe talks about his highly cited work,
particularly his paper, "Controlled microwave heating in
modern organic synthesis," (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
43[46]: 6250-84, 2004). This paper is currently the #1
Hot Paper in Chemistry in Essential
Science Indicators,
with 320 cites to date. Professor Kappe’s record includes
100 papers with 2,762 total cites to date. Professor Kappe
is the Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for
Microwave Chemistry, which is part of the Institute for
Chemistry at the University of Graz in Austria.
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An interview with:
Professor Nancy Devlin &
Professor David Parkin |
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March
2007
Nancy Devlin and David Parkin
discuss
their highly cited paper, "Does NICE have a
cost-effectiveness threshold and what other factors
influence its decisions? A binary choice analysis," (Health
Economics 13[5]: 437-52, May 2004). Professor Devlin is
a professor of Health Economics and the head of the
Department of Economics at The City University London, and
Senior Associate at the King’s Fund, London. Professor
Parkin is also a professor of Health Economics and is the
Director of the City Heath Economics Centre (CHEC) at The
City University London.
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An interview with:
Dr. Jean Robert Petit
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February
2007
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. Dr. Petit is a research scientist in
the Laboratory of Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics
of France’s CNRS.
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An
interview with:
Prof. David Baulcombe |
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January
2007
Professor
David Baulcombe of the John Innes Centre’s Sainsbury
Laboratory talk about his highly cited paper, "A
species of small antisense RNA in posttranscriptional gene
silencing in plants," (Hamilton AJ, Baulcombe DC, Science
286[5441]: 950-2, 1999). In our recent Special Topics
analysis of gene
silencing, Professor Baulcombe ranks at #5 among scientists
publishing in the field, with 31 of his papers, cited a
total of 4,612 times, contributing to his standing.
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