ScienceWatch.com from
Clarivate
takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these
interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of
fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of
ScienceWatch.com. There are also interviews with authors
featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
Emerging Research Fronts,
Fast-Moving Fronts,
New Hot Papers,
Fast-Breaking Papers,
Current Classics, and
Top Topics.
Many interviews and comments include images of the
authors’ work featured in their papers.
May
2008
Julie Ahringer; "We developed methods for
genome-wide RNAi and made discoveries on the properties of
genes and genome organization. For example, we found that
essential genes show clustering in the genome..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
David I. Auerbach; "Our paper discusses
emerging trends not yet described—we use the most
recent data in a novel way, combined with a novel forecast
model. The most interesting trend discussed is the
emergence of a new group of people entering the nursing
profession..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Jonathan M. Borwein; "Monotone operators were
invented in the early '60s as a way of studying solutions
to (elliptic) partial differential equations. They also
capture the first-order behavior of convex functions. As
such they are quite fundamental objects both..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Sara Burt; "My review bundled the current
knowledge on the antibacterial properties of edible
volatile oils (essential oils) obtained from plants. It
summarized the known facts on concentrations required to
inhibit growth of pathogenic bacteria and/or to
reduce..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Don E. Canfield; "I think this article has
been well received because we provide the first
demonstration of oxygen penetrating into the deep waters of
the late Precambrian oceans. Importantly, this oxygenation
is timed with the emergence of the Ediacaran fauna, some
of..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008 Andrew
J. Cherlin; "In a new synthesis, I argue that
marriage has been transformed from a partnership in
which couples thought of themselves as friends and
companions working together to raise a family to a new
form, in which each partner evaluates how well the
marriage is enhancing his or her own person..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Anne Desjardins; "Our job is to characterize
these toxins. Where do they occur? What fungal species make
them? The second thing we do is identify the genes required
for the synthesis of toxins, the biosynthetic pathways.
These are complex pathways with many enzymes..."
Special Topic of
Mycotoxins.
May
2008
Mark Enright; "Prior to our development of an
MLST scheme for S. aureus it was difficult to
compare the strains of bacteria that cause disease to those
in other hospitals, or to those that live harmlessly in the
nose of approximately a third of the human
population..."
Special Topic of
Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
May
2008
Santiago Esplugas; "The paper presents,
discusses, and compares available oxidation processes which
are used to remove an important group of pollutants from
water. I think it could be considered as a synthesis of
knowledge regarding chlorophenols abatement by..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Caren C. Helbing; "In humans, many of the
changes that occur in the frog tadpole are mirrored in the
developing fetus. Thyroid hormones are really important in
proper brain development for example. Thyroid hormones work
in a similar way in frogs, humans, and other
vertebrates..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Holger Frey; "The paper is a review article
that gives a summary of the state-of-the-art in the field.
Generally speaking, Angewandte Chemie is a mixed
journal containing review articles, features, and original
contributions. The reviews and features are of course cited
very often, which ..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Tomas Ganz; "The review summarized a lot of
ideas that were brewing in the antimicrobial peptide field
at the time. I tried to assess objectively and sometimes
critically where the field was going, and this may have
contributed to the success of this review..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Geoffrey M. Hodgson is a Research Professor in
Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire in the
UK; here he discusses core Darwinian principles for the
analysis of social and economic evolution.
Read his New Hot Paper comment from
Jan. 2008.
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May
2008
James Hudson & Ron Kessler; "We expect
that the results of this study will be considered in the
deliberations regarding whether to add binge eating
disorder as an official diagnosis in DSM-V. Inclusion of
binge eating disorder would result in greater coverage for
treatment by insurance..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Robin L. Graham; "Our paper addressed the most
readily available near–term source of cellulosic
feedstock in the US—corn stover. The weight of a corn
plant is half corn grain, half corn stover. Thus the US
produces as much corn stover as corn grain and corn
production..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Paul Henning Krogh; "There is presently a lot
of concern about pharmaceuticals contaminating the natural
environment. Antibiotics may enter the terrestrial
environment when improving soils with animal manure. Our
study tested the effects of two widely used antibiotics,
tylosin..." Featured Scientist
Interview,
May
2008.
May
2008
Katharina Lodders; "The composition of our Sun
is not only important for comparison to astronomical
observations of other stars or for input to models of
stellar evolution. It is also important because it is
representative of the material from which everything in the
solar system—the Sun..."
Special Topic of
Astrochemistry.
May
2008
Jill Mesirov & Eric Lander; "Gene Set
Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) derives its power by considering
sets of genes that correspond to a biological process, a
chromosomal location, or have a common regulatory pattern.
GSEA addresses a number of problems associated with the
single-gene approach..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
David P. MacKinnon; "The paper investigates an
important method in many fields, the extent to which a
variable transmits or mediates the relation between an
independent and a dependent variable. The paper reviews
existing tests for mediating variables from many..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Henry A. Nasrallah; "I believe the main reason
this paper is highly cited is because it reveals a serious,
even shocking, neglect of the physical health of millions
of individuals suffering from chronic
schizophrenia, a disabling
psychiatric brain disorder. The data in this
paper..." New Hot Papers,
May 2008.
May
2008
Robert Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of
the Social Sciences and Department Chair of Harvard
University’s Department of Sociology, talks about his
interest in criminology and urban sociology and the linkage
of urban neighborhoods with violence.
Read his Fast Breaking Paper
comment. View an article from
PNAS.
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May
2008
Oleg B. Shchekin; "At present, QD lasers are
starting to become commercialized for short-haul
fiber-optic communications. In the future, QDs have
potential for impact in the field of nano-photonics. As has
been shown by our collaborators and other researchers,
single QDs can be..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
David Sheehan; "The issue was how to capture
all these subtle nuances from one language to the next; not
just the experience of the disorder, but also the
experience by the patient, and try to get that constant
across all the languages. That way everybody can understand
the spirit..." Featured Paper
Interview,
May
2008.
May
2008
King-Ning Tu; "The report is about failures in
Pb-free solder joints used in electronic consumer products.
Because there is a ban on using Pb-based solders by the
Congress of the EU, the electronics industry has had to
apply Pb-free solders to their products without
undertaking..." Fast Moving Fronts,
May 2008.
May
2008
Peidong Yang is a Professor of Chemistry at
the University of California, Berkeley. Here he discusses
his lab’s interdisciplinary research in semiconductor
nanowires. Yang is a
Current Classics scientist (Mat.
Sci.) from Apr. 2008.
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(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be added during May
2008)