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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
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featured within every Special Topic
and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments
from authors who have papers featured in
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Fast-Moving Fronts,
New Hot Papers,
Fast-Breaking Papers,
Current Classics, and
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January
2009
James Boyd; "What is happening to
nature—are things getting better or worse—and
what does that mean for our well-being? This is a
fundamental question facing humanity right now. The thing
is it's very difficult to answer these questions. One
reason is that we don't have standard ecological measures
that we can track over time..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Alexander Brinkman talks with
ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about
magnetic effects at the interface between non-magnetic
oxidesfrom the field of Materials Sciences. New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Zhihong Chen; "In our paper, we demonstrated
one of the first graphene nano-ribbon devices with channel
width down to 20nm and showed the possibility of opening up
a band gap in this semi-metal material. We also discussed
the impact of the ribbon edges on device transport. Opening
a band gap, which can..."
Special Topic of
Graphene
January
2009
Christopher Dye; "We know that around 1 in 10
new TB cases in former Soviet countries is multidrug
resistant (MDR-TB); that is, resistant to (at least) the
two main first-line drugs used in combination therapy,
isoniazid and rifampicin. The numbers of
multidrug-resistant cases are also high in India and
China..."
Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
January
2009
Howard Eichenbaum; "The article reviews a
growing body of research that suggests a functional
organization of the brain system that supports our capacity
for conscious recollection. The paper describes a synthesis
of research that includes studies on humans with amnesia
due to brain damage, functional brain..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Daniel Falush; "It is very important that
people continue to work on non-model, non-medical
organisms, and that we have a fuller picture of the
patterns of diversity across all of life. In the modern
world, if people are not made aware of what is out there
and that it should be valued, then it is probably in
danger..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Afef Fekih; "This paper describes a new
structure of partially connected neural networks for
real–time residual generation in nonlinear systems.
For nonlinear systems, the task of residual generation is
sometimes complicated by the size of the problem, or by the
lack of a suitable model from where the residual can be
generated..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Nathan P. Gillett; "Our study showed that the
increase in the area burnt by forest fires in Canada is due
to human-induced climate change. It was the first study to
formally identify a significant impact of human-induced
climate change. The effects of increases in greenhouse gas
and other human climate influences have..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
Matthew Guenther; "This paper represents a
shift in the way we think about regulation of gene
transcription. Our finding that the majority of human genes
experience transcriptional initiation runs contrary to
previously held views that Pol II recruitment is the
rate-limiting or principle regulatory..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg; "The paper focuses on the
issue of coral reefs and climate change, synthesizing our
current understanding of past, present, and future
trajectories for these biologically diverse marine
ecosystems. I believe that this paper has attracted a lot
of attention given the importance of coral reefs to over
100 million..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Oded Hod, Gustavo Scuseria, & Veronica
Barone; "Our paper presents the first
calculation, based on screened-hybrid density functional
theory, of the electronic and structural properties of
semi-conducting graphene nanoribbons. Our findings reveal
important differences between previous
calculations.."
Special Topic of
Graphene
January
2009
David S. Hibbett; "This article presented a
comprehensive classification of the Fungi, based on recent
molecular evolutionary studies. The article had over 60
authors, representing 13 nations. This paper is being cited
because 1) Fungi represent a huge and tremendously
important group of organisms, which impact..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Mia Hubert, Peter Rousseeuw, & Karlien Vanden
Branden; "Our paper offers a solution to an
important problem in statistics and data analysis: how to
perform data reduction when the observations may be
contaminated with outlying values. This problem is
especially important for the analysis of
high-dimensional..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
Hiroshi Ito; "As the co-inventor of chemical
amplification resists, I am considered an expert in this
area. All of today's advanced semiconductor devices are
manufactured using chemical amplification resists, and my
article presents the most comprehensive review to date in
this area. My article describes a new discovery,
development..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
John Kjekshus; "This paper was the first to
examine in a prospective manner the effects of a statin
(rosuvastatin 10 mg) compared to placebo in chronic heart
failure of ischemic etiology. The results were neutral with
respect to cardiovascular mortality, non-fatal myocardial
infarction and stroke. This was unexpected
because..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Kenneth J. Livak is a Senior Scientific Fellow
at the Fluidigm Corporation in San Francisco, whose general
area of research is molecular genetics. He discusses his
highly cited paper on real-time PCR..."
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January
2009
Luis Liz-Marzan; "Nanoparticle size and shape
control is a hot topic within nanoscience and
nanotechnology. Although chemical methods for the synthesis
of gold nanoparticles have been reported since 150 years
ago, and dozens of papers are still published every month,
our report deals with an extremely..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
G. Alan Marlatt; "Nationally, on average, one
out of every five college students is a frequent binge
drinker. That means they’re getting drunk several
times a month. Fifty-five percent have had at least one
binge in the last 40 days. And a lot of students die every
year from alcohol-related accidents and problems. NIAAA
says..."
Special Topic of
Underage/College
Drinking
January
2009
Peter J. Mumby; "The paper addresses an
important issue in mangrove and coral reef ecology; the
degree to which coral reef fish populations are constrained
by the availability of mangrove nursery habitats. We took a
large-scale approach to investigate the question that
spanned all four of the atolls with..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
Andre Nel; "Andre Nel is a tenured Professor
and practicing allergist/immunologist at UCLA. He runs the
Cellular Immunology Activation Laboratory in the Johnson
Cancer Center at UCLA. He discusses his highly cited
paper..."
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January
2009
Susumu Noda; "Photonic crystals are a kind of
nanostructures for light with a periodic refractive index
distribution described above. A photonic bandgap, which
blocks photons in certain wavelengths, is formed as an
analogy of solid-state crystals. By controlling the
photonic crystal structures, novel manipulations
of..."
Special Topic of
Photonic
Crystals
January
2009
Amy Pinkham & David L. Penn; "The paper
summarizes the neural mechanisms underlying why individuals
with schizophrenia have difficulty processing social
information. In other words, what neural factors contribute
to their problems in understanding and perceiving others
facial affect and..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
January
2009
Stephen Porcella; "My main focus is genomics,
both at the host and pathogen level. Many of the
investigators that we support are specifically interested
in either the host response to infection or the pathogen
response during the infectious process, and sometimes both
at the same time. We also support those working
on..."
Featured Scientist Interview
January
2009
Vera Ralevic; "The main aim of this
review was to categorize some of the extensive literature
on endogenous purine receptors according to the new
nomenclature developed around cloned receptors. In the 10
years before the review was published, 16 out of 19
different receptors for purines and pyrimidines were
cloned..."
Featured Paper Interview
January
2009
Ulrich S. Schubert; "The article summarizes
and critically discusses the use of click chemistry in
macromolecular science, which has found widespread
adaptation within just a few years. Doing chemistry with
large macromolecular building blocks provides a major
challenge in purification if the transformation does
not..." New Hot Paper,
January
2009
January
2009
Russell Taylor & Dan Stoianovici; "This
survey paper provides a broad overview of medical robot
systems used in surgery. As such, it provided a very useful
guide to researchers wishing to enter the field. Although
intended for an engineering audience, it is written in a
way that should make it accessible to clinicians..." Fast Moving Front,
January
2009
(Additional
interviews/commentaries may be added during January
2009.)