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. Search for an author by
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Many interviews and comments include images of the
authors’ work featured in their papers.
September
2008
Avinash Kumar Agarwal; "The paper covers all
aspects of
biofuels
(biodiesel and alcohol), starting from the production stage
and fuel characterization, along through detailed engine
tests involving performance, emission, and long-term
investigations into aspects other than the mere
combustion..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Julia Balogun & Gerry Johnson; "Our paper
is highly cited as it fits within several different
research conversations. First it is a paper about
sensemaking and is, therefore, relevant to other research
in this area. However, it is also a paper about middle
managers and strategic change and is therefore..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Wolfgang Baumeister; "...it became immediately
clear that this paper marked a breakthrough in
demonstrating for the first time that cryoelectron
(cryo-ET) tomography—an emerging imaging technique
with unique potential for molecular cell biology—was
capable of visualizing molecular structures..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Donald E. Cutlip; "...placement of a stent or
small metal tube to open a blocked artery. A new form of
stent that was coated with medication had been thought to
be more effective, since it prevented reblockage of the
artery, but some studies had questioned if the stents had
higher risk of clotting and causing major heart
attacks..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Sankar Das Sarma; "This paper is highly cited
because it solves the outstanding quantum mechanical
problem of theoretically and quantitatively understanding
the dielectric screening properties of graphene. Graphene
has two-dimensional electrons and holes. These electrons
and holes..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Chuong B. Do; "This paper describes
CONTRAfold, (CONditional TRAining for RNA secondary
Structure Prediction), a novel approach to predicting the
secondary structures of RNAs for single sequences using
machine learning, which makes significantly more accurate
predictions than all previous methods...." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Alisdir R. Fernie; "Fruit and leaf material
was harvested at different developmental stages and its
chemical composition analyzed by gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry (GC-MS). The results of these studies revealed
that the importance of this particular enzyme declines
throughout the ripening process..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Roel Hammerschlag; "The paper is a literature
review of energy-return-on-investment (EROI) analyses for
corn and cellulosic ethanol. The paper has received
citation attention because it succeeds in normalizing and
comparing multiple research teams' results, and because it
is transparent and easy to read..."
Special Topic of
Biofuels,
September 2008
September
2008
Rafael Irizarry is a Professor in the
Department of Biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health. Here he discusses his work on the
development of quantitative methods and software for
genomics and epigenomics. He has been named a
Current Classics scientist (Math.)
for Apr. 2008.
Also view a commentary from a past
New Hot Paper feature.
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September
2008
Mietek Jaroniec; "The term "mesoporous
materials" refers to solids with broad or narrow
distribution of pores in the range between 2 and 50 nm,
which form a disordered or ordered network. In my studies
at M. Curie-Sklodowska University, I was primarily
interested in interfacial chemistry...."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous
Materials, September 2008
September
2008
Daniel Kammen & Richard Plevin;
"...determined that ethanol from cellulosic feedstocks
might be dramatically less greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive
than corn ethanol, which even if refined properly, offered
at best a slight reduction in GHG emissions versus
gasoline..."
Special Topic of
Biofuels,
September 2008
September
2008
Ron Kessler & Jim Hudson; "Ron Kessler,
Professor of Healthcare Policy & Jim Hudson (pictured),
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, discuss
binge eating disorder and the link to obesity. This podcast
accompanies their New Hot Paper
commentary on the same topic (May 2008). Podcast added
Sept. 1, 2008.
Listen: MP3|
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September
2008
Robert J. Lefkowitz; "This discovery has led
to a completely new understanding or paradigm for how the
receptors work, which has important implications for drug
discovery. This is important because GPCRs are the most
important target of therapeutic drugs..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh; "This paper has
important information about how mammals evolve. It
suggested that the major changes in the genome that lead to
evolutionary changes in body plans and development of
mammals are caused by changes that regulate when and how
much of a protein is produced rather..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Edward A. McKenzie; "This review brings
together the key publications over recent years since the
cloning of the gene in 1999 and synthesizes the knowledge
of heparanase biology and pathology which has lead to the
current diverse array of inhibitors of heparanase
activity..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Xavier Obradors & Teresa Puig; "Our paper
has described a new methodology to prepare epitaxial
superconducting nanocomposites which has resulted in new
physical discoveries. One important hindrance of high
temperature superconductors is that they have a layered
structure which results in anisotropic..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Lyman Page; "We measure the polarization in
light left over from the Big Bang over large swaths of sky.
The degree of polarization tells us when the first stars
formed. Armed with this information, we can account for the
"screen" between us and the "surface of last scattering"
and begin to probe..." New Hot Paper,
September
2008
September
2008
Roger Powell & Tim Holland; "What this
paper provides is a dataset of thermodynamic properties of
the constituents (end-members) of the minerals, fluids, and
melt that are needed in order to perform calculations on
the conditions of formation of rocks. It is an internally
consistent dataset..." Featured Paper
Interview,
September
2008
September
2008
Stephen W. Schaeffer; "The Richards et al.
(2005) article is highly cited because of the value of the
Drosophila pseudoobscura genome sequence data and also
because the paper contributed to our understanding of
genomic evolution at the level of genes, of gene
regulation, and also of chromosomes..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Olga G. Troyanskaya; "My group’s
research is in the area of computational functional
genomics, specifically in developing novel computational
methods for the prediction of protein function,
interactions, and regulation from diverse high-throughput
biological data. We aim to develop algorithms and
systems..." Featured Scientist
Interview,
September
2008
September
2008
Cosette M. Wheeler; "Because human
papillomaviruses, to our knowledge, are not changing
rapidly and thus are apparently somewhat "fixed," we
don’t think some new monster virus is going to arise
from the evolutionary pressures of HPV vaccination. What we
showed is that HPVs vary—as compared to saying they
mutate..."
Special Topic of Human
Papillomavirus, September 2008
September
2008
S. Joseph Wright; "The paper is a review that
attempts to synthesize the impact of a wide range of
anthropogenic drivers on tropical forests. Interest in this
subject is intense because tropical forests support 60% of
all species, influence regional climates far beyond the
tropics, are a key component..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
September
2008
Haoshen Zhou; "Currently, nanostructure
surface modification has become one of the most efficient
ways to fabricate functional surface for various
applications. The super-hydrophobic technology is only one
example. Some other possible applications, such as LIB, SP,
DSSC, OWGS, are already..." Fast Moving Front,
September
2008
(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be added during September
2008)