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 December 2009 are listed below. To view
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Excerpt from the
interview: "With this
comprehensive paper, we survey and
discuss the role of symmetry
breaking and its potential for
applications for novel transport
schemes and separation methods on
the length scales of micrometers
right down to the nanoscale. It's
an everyday experience that the
elements of symmetry breaking
such..."
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interview: "There is a strong
interest in understanding and
modeling the geographic
distribution of organisms as a
function of climate and other
factors. Species distribution
modeling (also known as
environmental or ecological niche
modeling) is a particularly
frequently used method in
biogeography, ecology..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging
field with a rapid growth of the
number of publications about this
discipline in recent years. MOFs
have drawn special attention
because of their potential in many
areas including separation,
catalysis, and gas storage,
particularly hydrogen for their
applications in fuel
cells..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Our research style
is "in the beginning was a novel
peptide." We have been searching
for novel unknown peptides for
almost 30 years. We discovered
opioid peptides
(
a-neoendorphin, etc.),
neuromedins, and the natriuretic
peptide family (ANP, BNP, and CNP).
It is a very exciting experiment to
find a novel peptide and
explore..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "My M.D. was
conferred from Okayama University
in 1968. After clinical training as
a resident in gastroenterology at
Okayama University Hospital for
several years, I decided to enter
the path to live as a scientist and
got a Ph.D. in medicine at
Tokushima University in 1975. I
worked for two years
(1978-1979)..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The paper offers a
synthesis of previous knowledge on
the basis of a methodological
consideration. Although the
attribution of journals to subject
categories remains highly
uncertain—and therefore often
erroneous—we show that the
average attribution at the
aggregated level can be used for
the mapping of science..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: The International
Osteoporosis Foundation estimates
that there are 75 million people in
Europe, the United States, and
Japan with osteoporosis. In
November 2002, we analyzed the
literature for osteoporosis from
1992-2002. This month,
ScienceWatch.com analyzes
the literature on osteoporosis over
the past decade and over the past
two years..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "About a decade ago
the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory began co-editing the
journal with the Institute of
Chemical Technology in Germany.
Around that time PEP started
rejecting a lot of papers. And the
natural consequence of that is that
we actually started getting more
papers. It seems that the tougher
we are..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Stephanie Seminara
is a faculty member of the
Reproductive Endocrine Unit at
Massachusetts General Hospital and
Associate Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, is lead
author of the
Top
Topics paper selection from
the field of Neuroscience &
Behavior for
June 2009: "The GPR54 gene as a
regulator..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "In the eighth
annual presentation,
ScienceWatch.com presents the
top 20 countries (among nations
that published 10,000 or more
papers during the period, and
across all
fields) out of a pool of 148
which, as of the latest bimonthly
update of
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM,
attracted the highest total
citations to their papers
published..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Viswanath
Venkatesh is the George and Boyce
Billingsley Chair of Information
Systems at the Walton College of
Business in the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is
lead author of the
Top
Topics paper selection from
the field of Economics &
Business for
June 2009: “User
acceptance of information
technology..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "VIMS was founded
in 1940 as the Virginia Fisheries
Laboratory, part of the College of
William and Mary. The VIMS main
campus is in Gloucester Point,
Virginia, on a 40-acre plot at the
mouth of the York River, which
opens to Chesapeake Bay and the
Atlantic Ocean. VIMS also has two
satellite campuses..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I received my B.S.
degree in electrical engineering
from National Taiwan University,
Taiwan, and my M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering
from Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, Texas, USA, in 1981, 1984,
and 1986, respectively. From 1986
to 1987, I was a visiting scientist
with Max-Planck-Institute
for..."
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