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 Autophagy. All of the author comments
below are also listed in the site-wide
Author Commentaries listings
(available by month/year or alphabetically).
December
2009 Eiki
Kominami; According to our Special Topics analysis on
autophagy research over the past decade, the work of Dr.
Eiki Kominami ranks at #5 by total number of papers and #6
by total number of citations, based on 51 papers cited a
total of 3,245 times. In
Essential Science IndicatorsSM from
Thomson
Reuters, Dr. Kominami's record includes 115 papers, the
majority of which are classified under either Biology &
Biochemistry or Molecular Biology & Genetics, cited a
total of 5,112 times between January 1, 1999 and August 31,
2009. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks
with him about his highly cited research. View
Article
November
2009
Patrice Codogno; In our Special Topics
analysis on autophagy, the work of Dr. Patrice Codogno ranks at
#9 by total papers and at #10 by total cites, based on 39
papers cited a total of 1,994 times. According to Essential
Science Indicators from Clarivate, his record
includes 56 papers, the majority of which are classified under
Biology & Biochemistry, cited a total of 2,500 times
between January 1, 1999 and June 30, 2009. This month,
ScienceWatch.com talks with about Dr. Codogno about
his research in autophagy. View
Article
October
2009
Isei Tanida; According to our Special Topics
analysis on autophagy research over the past decade, the work
of Dr. Isei Tanida ranks at #9, with 33 papers cited a total of
2,195 times. In Essential Science Indicators from
Clarivate, Dr. Tanida's record includes 37 papers, the
majority of which are classified under Biology &
Biochemistry, cited a total of 2,389 times. In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com talks with him about his highly cited
work. View
Article
September
2009 Dan
Klionsky; The University of Michigan’s Daniel
Klionsky discusses cellular autophagy, or, literally,
“self-eating,” a process long considered by
many researchers to be merely a routine part of the
cell’s housekeeping and therefore unworthy of study,
but now acknowledged and widely scrutinized as a key
cellular mechanism that has been linked to cancer,
neurodegeneration, and other conditions. The ability to
manipulate autophagy is currently being examined as a
potential therapeutic approach. View
Article
September
2009 Yoshinori
Ohsumi; According to our Special Topics analysis of
autophagy research over the past decade, the work of
Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks at #1 by total number of
papers and #2 by total cites, based on 93 papers cited a
total of 7,061 times. In Essential Science
Indicators from Clarivate, Prof. Ohsumi's record
includes 115 papers cited a total of 7,436 times between
January 1, 1999 and April 30, 2009. In this interview, he
talks with ScienceWatch.com about his highly cited
research. View
Article
August
2009
Noboru Mizushima; Dr. Noboru Mizushima is the
top-ranked scientist by total cites in our Special Topics
analysis on autophagy, based on 82 papers cited a total of
7,376 times. In Essential Science Indicators from
Clarivate, his work includes 92 papers cited a total of
7,628 times between January 1, 1999 and April 30, 2009. At
present, Dr. Mizushima is a Professor in the Department of
Physiology and Cell Biology at Tokyo Medical and Dental
University. In this interview, he talks with
ScienceWatch.com about his work in this field. View
Article
July
2009
David Rubinsztein; In the Special Topics analysis
on autophagy, the paper "Inhibition of mTOR induces autophagy
and reduces toxicity of polyglutamine expansions in fly and
mouse models of Huntington disease," (Ravikumar B, et al.,
Nat. Genet. 36[6]: 585-95, June 2004) appears on both the
list of the 20 most-cited papers in the past decade and the
Research Front
Map on Autophagy. The leading scientist behind this paper
is Professor David Rubinsztein, who, in this interview, talks
with ScienceWatch.com about this paper and its impact
on the field of autophagy. View
Article