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 October 2009 are listed below.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The paper
summarizes the state of the art, in
2004, for drug delivery systems
(DDS) and provides examples of
several DDS that have received
clinical approval. At that time,
there was increasing publicity
about, and interest, in
nanomedicines, and the field was in
a stage of exponential growth. It
appears to have..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "At Oxford I
studied information engineering and
machine learning for my MEng
degree. I was interested in
doctoral research, but could not
settle on an area. Then I became
attracted to brain imaging by an
ebullient person, Professor Sir
Michael Brady, who is a leading
figure in the disciplines of
artificial intelligence, medical
image..."
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Pengcheng Dai, Professor of Physics
in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at The University of
Tennessee in Knoxville, discusses
his
Current
Classics Multidisciplinary
paper for
June 2009: "Magnetic order
close to superconductivity in the
iron-based layered LaO1-xFxFeAs
systems," as published in the
journal Nature 453[7197],
899-902, Jun 12 2008.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Funding for
research, in particular for
fundamental (as opposed to applied)
research is dramatically shrinking
in Italy. There is a growing
consensus that the fewer resources
should be distributed based upon
scientific merit. Hence the effort
by INAF scientists to continue
producing first-class research
results..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The dramatic
growth of physical chemistry at the
end of the 20th century
led to the split of the Journal
of Physical Chemistry into
parts A and B in 1997. Since 1997,
several areas of physical chemistry
have emerged and have been
experiencing significant growth,
including studies on nanomaterials
and nanostructures,
optical..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "In our paper, we
utilize many different techniques
to obtain a robust value of
asphaltene molecular weight. In
particular, we show the four
different techniques of measuring
molecular diffusion and six
different methods of mass
spectroscopy are now all yielding
comparable results for asphaltene
molecular weight..."
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Excerpt from the feature:
"This map of Nanoscience is based
on research-front data for the
six-year period ending in April
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 research
fronts in..."
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Excerpt from the feature:
"Extracted from the
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM
database from
Clarivate,
ScienceWatch.com presents
a listing of the top 20 countries
in Computer Sciences. Rankings are
listed by citations per
paper—among nations that
collected 5,000 or more citations
during the period (January 1999
through June 30, 2009)—to
reveal weighted impact..."
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Excerpt from the feature:
"Of the fields in which OSU ranks
in the top 1%, it ranks among the
top 100 institutions in nine fields
(Clinical Medicine, Biology &
Biochemistry, Engineering,
Environment & Ecology,
Microbiology, Immunology, Materials
Science, Pharmacology &
Toxicology, and Computer Science),
the top 50 in seven fields
(Physics..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Acrylamide was
first discovered in food in April
2002 by the Swedish National Food
Authority that reported the
presence of acrylamide in certain
types of food cooked at high
temperatures. The food industry was
of course very concerned at this
discovery and took this finding
very seriously. Thus, all our
efforts were focused..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Among these
problems are indirect searches for
dark matter, the origin and
propagation of cosmic rays,
particle acceleration in putative
cosmic ray sources—such as
supernova remnants—and the
interstellar medium, cosmic rays in
other galaxies and the role they
play in galactic evolution, studies
of our local..."
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Autophagy
Excerpt from the
interview: "I majored in
Biology at the University of Tokyo,
where I received my Bachelor of
Science degree in 1987. I also did
my graduate work at the University
of Tokyo, earning my Master of
Science degree in Biology in 1989,
and my Ph.D. in 1997. My research
career started in 1989 at the Tonen
Corporation's Central Research
Laboratory..."
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Alan J. Thompson, Director of the
University College London Institute
of Neurology, in London, UK,
discusses his
June 2009 Current Classics
article from the field of
Neuroscience & Behavior:
"Recommended diagnostic criteria
for multiple sclerosis: Guidelines
from the International Panel on the
Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis,"
as published in the journal
Annals of Neurology 50[1],
121-27, Jul 2001.
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