Special Topic: Hadron Colliders> Interviews
Published November 2010
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 Hadron Colliders. All of the author comments below are also listed in the site-wide Author Commentaries listings (available by month/year or alphabetically).
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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 Hadron Colliders. All of the author comments below are also listed in the site-wide Author Commentaries listings (available by month/year or alphabetically).
JUNE 2011
Zi-Wei Lin
Discusses a Multiphase Transport Model for Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collisions
The paper "Multiphase transport model for relativistic heavy ion collisions," (Lin ZW, et al., Phys. Rev. C 72[6]: art. no. 064901, December 2005) is a key paper in the Research Front Map on Hadron Colliders, with 116 cites at the time the Special Topics analysis was run. In Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate, it is also a Highly Cited Paper in the field of Physics, with 133 citations up to February 28, 2011. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with lead author Dr. Zi-Wei Lin about this paper and its impact on the field of hadron colliders.
MAY 2011
Nu Xu
Talks About the STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven National
Lab
In this final part in our series of interviews with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Nu Xu about the STAR Collaboration and its role in hadron collider research. In our Special Topics analysis of hadron collider research over the past decade, BNL ranks at #1 by total cites, #2 by number of papers, and #20 by cites per paper, based on 1,529 papers cited a total of 27,320 times. Among these, 369 papers with 4,449 cites dealt with STAR in some way. BNL also ranks at #20 among the 704 institutions comprising the top 1% in the field of Physics in Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate.
APRIL 2011
Wit Busza
Discusses Brookhaven National Lab's PHOBOS Collaboration
Our Special Topics analysis of hadron colliders research over the past decade shows that the work coming out of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) ranks at #1 by total cites, #2 by number of papers, and #20 by cites per paper, based on 1,529 papers cited a total of 27,320 times. BNL also ranks at #20 among the 704 institutions comprising the top 1% in the field of Physics in Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate. Among BNL's papers in our Special Topic, 62 papers with 1,052 cites dealt with the PHOBOS experiment in some way; one of these papers is ranked at #4 on the 10-year paper list. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Wit Busza about the PHOBOS experiment and its role in hadron collider research.
MARCH 2011
Barbara
Jacak Talks About Brookhaven National Lab's PHENIX
Experiment
In Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) ranks at #20 among institutions in the field of Physics. According to our Special Topics analysis of hadron colliders research over the past decade, the work coming out of BNL ranks at #1 by total cites, #2 by number of papers, and #20 by cites per paper, based on 1,529 papers cited a total of 27,320 times. Among BNL's papers in our Special Topic, 323 papers with 5,317 cites deal with the PHENIX experiment; one of these papers is ranked at #5 on the 10-year paper list. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Barbara Jacak about the PHENIX experiment and its particular contributions to hadron collider research over the years.
FEBRUARY 2011
Flemming
Videbaek on Brookhaven National Lab's BRAHMS Experiment
Our Special Topics analysis of hadron colliders research over the past decade shows that the work coming out of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) ranks at #1 by total cites, #2 by number of papers, and #20 by cites per paper, based on 1,529 papers cited a total of 27,320 times. BNL ranks at #20 among the 681 institutions comprising the top 1% in the field of Physics in Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate. Among BNL's papers in our Special Topic, 55 papers with 732 cites dealt with the BRAHMS experiment in some way; one of these papers is ranked at #5 on the 10-year paper list. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Flemming Videbaek about the BRAHMS experiment and its particular contributions to hadron collider research over the years.
JANUARY 2011
Heavy-Ion
Collisions & Other High-Energy Physics News from Brookhaven
National Lab
In Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Clarivate, Brookhaven National Lab ranks at #20 among the 681 institutions comprising the top 1% in the field of Physics. Brookhaven's record in this field includes 4,045 papers cited a total of 96,483 times between January 1, 2000 and August 31, 2010. According to our Special Topics analysis on Hadron Colliders research over the past decade, Brookhaven ranks at #1 by total cites and #2 by number of papers, based on 1,529 papers cited a total of 27,320 times. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with Dr. Steven Vigdor (pictured), the Atch.comssociate Lab Director for Nuclear & Particle physics at Brookhaven, about the Lab's achievements in physics in recent years.
Note: This is also the ScienceWatch.com Institution Interview for January 2010.
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