Read interviews, first-person essays, profiles, and other features about
people in a wide variety of fields, along with information on journals
& institutions in the topic of Bisphenol A (BPA). All of the author
comments below are also listed in the site-wide
Author Commentaries listings
(available by month/year or alphabetically).
February
2010
John Sumpter; In our Special Topics analysis of
papers published on BPA over the past decade, the work of
Professor John Sumpter ranks at #5 by total cites. According to
Essential Science IndicatorsSM from
Thomson
Reuters, he ranks among the 100 most-cited scientists in
the field of Environment & Ecology, based on 38 papers
cited a total of 2,137 times between January 1, 1999 and
October 31, 2009. In this interview, Professor Sumpter talks
with ScienceWatch.com European correspondent Dr. Simon
Mitton about his highly cited work. View
Article
September
2009 Ana Soto;
The work of Dr. Ana Soto ranks at #2 by total cites in our
Special Topics analysis of bisphenol A research over the
past decade. Essential Science
IndicatorsSM from Clarivate shows
that Dr. Soto's record includes 74 papers cited a total of
1,820 times between January 1, 1999 and April 30, 2009. She
is also a
Highly Cited Researcher in both
Ecology/Environment and Pharmacology. In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks
with Dr. Soto about her highly cited research relating to
bisphenol A. View
Article
August
2009
Antonia Calafat; In the Research Front Map on
Bisphenol A, the
paper "Urinary concentrations of bisphenol A and 4-nonylphenol
in a human reference population" (Calafat AM, et al.,
Environ. Health Perspect. 113[4]: 391-5, April 2005) has
113 cites. This paper is also a Highly Cited Paper in the field
of Environment & Ecology in Essential Science
IndicatorsSM from Clarivate. In this
interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with lead author Dr.
Antonia Calafat about the paper and its implications for the
field. View
Article