In these interviews, scientists talk to ScienceWatch.com and
offer behind-the-scenes insights into their research: reflections on
what led them to their chosen field, the motivation driving their work
in a given direction, and the challenges encountered along on the way.
These authors also offer their views on why their work has wielded
particular influence in the scientific community, as indicated by
Clarivate
citation data, and on how research in their respective fields has
progressed over time and will likely unfold in the future.
Featured interviews for April 2010 are listed below. To view featured
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The way therapies
were being measured 20 years ago is
by how well they would
bronchodilate patients, how well
they would improve lung function.
And we began to realize that many
other things impacted outcome
independent of how affected lung
function may be. We began a series
of studies around 1990 about the
value..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I have been
basically working on two different
topics related to quantum
information. One is related to this
paper, further developing the
theory of quantum information. The
other is thinking about physical
systems and how to build quantum
computers from them. During the
last year..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I was working in
heart diseases in the 1980s, when
Paul Whelton made me aware that the
epidemiology of kidney disease was
really just beginning. I started
getting involved in that in the
early 1990s, and it turns out there
were really fundamental things that
had to be done. By 2002, I was the
vice-chairman of a working
group..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Nitrogen is the
key nutrient that controls the
machinery of photosynthesis. That's
why you use fertilizer. Nitrogen is
in the fertilizer. It allows the
photosynthetic machinery to be
built. Nitrogen cycles in natural
ecosystems; it goes from the plant
to the soil and back up to the
plant. It can be plentiful or it
can be..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper
describes how useful a simulated
body fluid (SBF) is in predicting
the bone-bonding ability of a
material. The principal property
required for bone substitutes is a
bone-bonding ability. Most of the
scientists working in the field of
biomaterials for bone substitutes
are interested primarily in the
bone-bonding ability of
the..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Our paper
describes the valuable antioxidant
properties of three tasty mycelia
and examines the implication that
hundreds of other
mushrooms—including fruiting
bodies and mycelia—may
possess better antioxidant
properties than these three
mycelia, especially some which are
regarded as medicinal
mushrooms..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This map of
Nanoscience is based on
research-front data for the
six-year period ending in December
31, 2009. The map shows the major
component areas of the field linked
together in a network based on the
same principles as our
research-front maps showing highly
cited papers. To create a field
map, we first identify
all..."
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This month from
ScienceWatch.com, we have
listed our ranking in Social
Sciences, general by total
citations. The data were extracted
from the
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM
database from
Clarivate. This database,
currently covering the period
January 1999 through December 31,
2009, surveys only journal articles
(original research reports and
review articles) indexed by Thomson
Reuters.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Martin A. Nowak is
Professor of Biology and of
Mathematics at Harvard University
and Director of Harvard's Program
for Evolutionary Dynamics. He is
the author of a Current Classics
paper in the field of
Multidisciplinary for
Feb. 2010: “Five rules
for the evolution of
cooperation,”
Science 314(5805),
1560-63, DEC 8 2006..."
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The World Health Organization
estimates that by the year 2015,
2.3 billion adults worldwide
will be overweight, and 700 million
will be obese. In 2001, Special
Topics examined the literature on
obesity from 1991-2000. This month,
we revisit the topic, analyzing the
literature from the most recent
decade and the past two
years, and a Research Front
Map: "Gut Microbial Ecology and
Obesity."
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This month,
ScienceWatch.com presents
a listing of the top 20
institutions which, according to
our Special Topic on Obesity,
attracted the highest total
citations to their papers published
on the topic in Thomson
Reuters-indexed journals.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "It is a great
honor for the journal to be given a
high citation record. The purpose
of JPST is to be the
worldwide international publication
forum for scientists and engineers
in the field of photopolymer
science and technology. The editors
believe that the high citation
record proves the support from the
photopolymer community..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper is a
descriptive study on
deployment-acquired traumatic brain
injury (TBI). A TBI is most simply
described as an injury event that
results in an alteration or loss of
consciousness. Data was: 1)
obtained from one Brigade Combat
Team (BCT); 2) included the
percentage of soldiers with history
of clinician confirmed
TBI..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The Large Area
Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope is
providing the first new look at the
high-energy gamma-ray sky in more
than a decade and with
unprecedented sensitivity. Because
gamma rays are the most energetic
form of light, they can only be
produced in processes that involve
large transfers of energy..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I always say that
perhaps the correlated electron
materials represent an important
area of science we need to realize
our dreams. Of course, our dreams
are not to know the ultimate nature
of the universe or such a big thing
as that, but we are trying to
obtain very surprising or
unconventional functions or
electronic functions..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Originally, I
trained as a secondary school
teacher in biology and chemistry.
Although I liked teaching, I soon
realized that teaching teenagers
was not my calling. Also, unlike my
fellow biology teachers, I was not
particularly interested in birds
and plants, etc. I was more
interested in biochemistry,
molecular..."
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