 UT's Eric J. Nestler on the
Biochemistry of Addiction
The path from first-time drug use to hopeless addiction is a sorrowful road to travel, but lately it’s been a hot path for scientists to study. Researchers have been able to make remarkable progress elucidating the biological nature of addiction and the complex cellular and molecular mechanisms that lead to long-term changes in behavior and memory in the drug-addicted brain.
Few researchers in this field have had the impact of Eric J.
Nestler, a psychiatrist and pharmacologist at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. In the past two decades, Nestler has seen nearly 20 of his published papers collect more than 100 citations each. Two papers have racked up over 300 citations, including his 1992 Journal of Neuroscience article on "Molecular mechanisms of drug addiction," which has tallied nearly 400 to
date. Nestler, in fact, got an early start in high-impact
research: nine of his first ten publications, all written with his...
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The
Greatest Research on Earth
 tmospheric science and climatology stand out
in a new survey of highly cited geosciences research over the
last decade. To identify the most-cited geosciences
institutions, researchers, and journals of the last 10 years, Science Watch
turned to
Essential Science Indicators®
(ESI), an
ISI/Thomson Scientific web-based
evaluation tool and database. In the table above, institutions
are ranked, both by total citations and
citations per paper (or impact)...
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