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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.
"In my mind, the primary goal is not to predict disease, nor to
personalize medicine. It’s to understand the biological
systems..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010
"...our paper is highly cited because it provides a useful and
relatively simple and useful framework to organize..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Sep. 2009
"It is felt that a heavier vehicle will consume more energy than a
lighter vehicle... weight reduction is associated with
energy..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
August 2011
"It is the first biodegradable fluorescent (quantum dot)
nanoparticle to safely image tumors and organs in live mice
that..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Apr. 2010
"This paper reports on a general strategy for decoding the gene
function of Arabidopsis..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008
"My work in the team was to provide all the deforestation analysis
based on satellite analysis that went into the model..."
Featured Scientist Interview, May 2009
"I have studied chemistry and obtained my PhD in 1994. Today I
spend most of my time at the computer to develop code..."
Featured Scientist, September 2011
“As an outsider, both in the research community and in a foreign society, I faced many challenges, including language issues, unfamiliarity with systems and practices, and most importantly, domestic funding agencies turning down my funding applications, despite my high productivity and research impact.”
Special Topic of
Featured Interview, 2012
"This paper presents the discovery of a special type of high-grade
metamorphic rocks from..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Aug. 2008
"The publication of our paper had an impact among ordinary people,
especially children, as amphioxus is highly..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"I have always enjoyed trying to solve problems that are simply
stated yet deceptively difficult. This process is
especially..."
Featured
Paper Interview,
Feb. 2008
"It was the first paper that looked at the effects of genome wide
selection on dairy cattle bull progeny testing,..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Jul. 2009
"The Richards et al. (2005) article is highly cited because of the
value of the Drosophila pseudoobscura..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Sep. 2008
"Our paper introduced a mathematically rigorous method (Maxent) for
modeling..."
Special Topic of
Climate Change, Nov. 2009
"The paper shows in detail how low-mass galaxies undergo a major
burst of star formation (most likely triggered by the merger
of..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
November 2010
"Our paper captures the Zeitgeist of a growing group of climate
scientists..."
New Hot Papers, Jul. 2009
"The paper offers a succinct review of the current state of science
regarding the health effects..."
New
Hot Paper,
Jul. 2008
"Regular PCR amplifies the RNA or DNA in a sample, and real-time
PCR amplifies it and quantifies it..."
Featured
Paper Interview,
Jul. 2008
"After a more or less coincidental finding we followed up on the
electrochemical formation of self-organized TiO2..."
New Hot Papers, Nov. 2009
Patrick S. Schnable is the Baker Professor of Agronomy, Director of
the Center for Plant Genomics and the Center..."
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WMA, October 2010
"The SDSS's great steps forward were obtaining
digital, multicolor images of a large area of the sky to
brightness..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview, Jul.
2009
"In our paper we unravel a new debate in the field of systems
biology: What is the appropriate modeling formulation..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Jul. 2009
"Tremendous debate has arisen in both the scientific community and
the general public over the past decade..."
New Hot Papers, Nov. 2009
"In our work we presented evidence that the adult brain changes in
response to a relatively short period of juggling
practice..."
New
Hot Papers,
March 2011
"Dirk Schübeler, a Senior Group Leader in Epigenetics at the
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research..."
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WMA
"The paper describes the usage of an inkjet printer for a broad
field of applications. For example, the manufacturing..."
Fast Moving Front, Jan. 2010
"The article summarizes and critically discusses the use of click
chemistry in macromolecular science..."
New
Hot Paper,
Jan. 2009
"Our paper identified a potential link between two fundamental
molecular layers of gene regulation: chromatin structure..."
New
Hot Papers,
January 2011
"Today's electronics is based on the semiconducting material
silicon. For decades the progress in electronics mainly..."
Emerging
Research Front,
December 2011
"Our paper presents the first calculation, based on screened-hybrid
density functional..."
Special Topic of
Graphene, Jan. 2009
"Speciation research is currently one of the most active fields in
evolutionary and ecological research. The cichlid fish..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2010
"This paper describes a new method to align the MPS of block
copolymers processed by light. To align the MPS..."
Emerging
Research Front, Aug. 2010
"...amyloid beta is both necessary and sufficient to cause
Alzheimer’s disease, but there are many other factors.
If..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, March 2011
"...Alzheimer's Disease involves compromise of
synaptic function...."
Emerging
Research Fronts,
Jun. 2008
"...we introduced an analytical model that enabled us to test our
theoretical expectations in dynamic terms. It is our hope
that..."
Emerging
Research Front,
August 2011
"The Arctic's floating sea ice cover is quickly shrinking. While
this decline is a clear indicator of climate change..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008
"...with cancer of the uterine cervix, HPV is responsible for
nearly 100% of the cancers, and this is..."
Special Topic of
Human
Papillomavirus, Jul. 2008
"Dairy foods are universally accepted and they provide a good
environment for probiotics' growth..."
Special Topic of
Probiotics, July 2010
"The increasing rate of resistant bacteria to conventional
antibiotics is a worldwide threat. This article..."
New
Hot Paper,
Jul. 2008
"At present, QD lasers are starting to become commercialized for
short-haul fiber-optic communications..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
May 2008
"The issue was how to capture all these subtle nuances from one
language to the next not..."
Featured
Paper Interview,
May 2008
"This paper provides the first conclusive genetic and biochemical
evidence that a specific Arabidopsis
hexokinase (HXK1)..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Oct. 2008
"Our paper represents an important contribution to the field of
organ donation in that it provided a credible estimate of
the..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
Jay Shendure"The paper describes the synthesis
of several methodologies and their extension to a new direction.
Specifically..."
Fast Moving Front, Jan. 2010
"For the first time in "open access" literature, this paper
introduced a novel modulation format which combines two..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Sep. 2009
"As part of an international research effort, the AtGenExpress
consortium was organized to make an important..."
New Hot Paper, Jan. 2009
"In addition to the well-known roles of lipids, they are also
important as bioactive autacoids that regulate..."
New
Hot Papers,
July 2010
"This paper reported the results of a meta-analysis of published
data to re-examine the value of measuring concentrations
of..."
Featured Scientist, April 2011
"This is a complete byproduct of our research on gene targeting
experiments using..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"In general terms, this research helped us to understand why
anti-nuclear antibodies are made in lupus..."
New
Hot Paper,
Mar. 2008
"Obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. Our
studies identified a molecular connection..."
Emerging
Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have generated a great deal of
excitement because of the diverse range of..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2010
"The paper proposed a unique and clean signal to directly test a
neutrino mass..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Mar. 2009
"During the last decade, more and more people with coronary artery
disease are being treated with coronary stent placement..."
New
Hot Papers,
September 2010
"...we saw that many people believed that migraine and epilepsy
were similar in some ways..."
Migraine & Other
Vascular Headaches, Feb. 2008
"The importance of computer simulations keeps growing in a wide
variety of areas, including my area of expertise, which
is..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
May 2011
"This paper describes the current state-of-the-art in the field of
electrochemical capacitors (ECs)..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Dec. 2009
"This paper was an invited review article that summarized, circa
2003, what was..."
Fast
Moving Front,
Jul. 2008
"Data mining & machine learning are key technologies for
information technology, health-care... profoundly
affecting..."
Emerging
Research Front,
October 2010
"The main contribution of the "relational view" paper was that it
outlined a theory for considering dyads..."
Featured
Paper Interview,
Aug. 2008
"The question of how social networks influence flow of knowledge is
not new. Yet there have been relatively few studies..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2010
"Our paper explains the internal control reporting requirements of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002..."
New
Hot Paper,
Nov. 2008
"My research focuses on exploring the manner in which different
cell types in a tissue interact and communicate to..."
Special Topic of
Epigenetics, Mar. 2009
"Our paper "Advanced heart failure treated with continuous-flow
left ventricular assist device" was very important and
now..."
New
Hot Papers,
July 2011
"Imaging structures and dynamics is a major direction of modern
science which encompasses physics, chemistry and biology..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
October 2010
"The new things we discovered about terrestrial gamma-ray flashes
(TGFs) were 1) the extremely high energies to which..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2009
"This paper calibrates the form and behavior of PAH emission in a
local, broadly selected sample of galaxies..."
Fast
Moving Fronts,
July 2010
"Mark Smith was Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve
University as well as Director of Basic Science Research
at..."
Special Topic of
Alzheimer's Disease, June 2011
"This work grew out of a multidisciplinary collaboration between a
biochemist interested in..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Feb. 2008
"There are many tens of thousands of cubic meters of
petroleum-contaminated soil in Antarctica. There’ so
much..."
Special Topic of
Oil Spills, February 2011
"Trans-resveratrol is a nonflavonoid polyphenolic compound found in
several plant species, a number of which are part of..."
New
Hot Papers,
January 2011
"This paper is a review summarizing the research on one important
innate immune process in invertebrates..."
Fast Moving Front, Mar. 2010
"most significant and new observation in the paper is that oomycete
effectors can be delivered..."
Fast
Breaking Paper,
Feb. 2009
"Mitochondria are abundant organelles residing inside each of the
bodies’ cells that perform major functions..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010
"The paper showed that the climate changes that take place due to
human-caused changes in carbon dioxide..."
New Hot Paper, Mar. 2010
"This paper—by combining cutting-edge imaging..."
New
Hot Papers,
May 2008
"We developed an assay called E-SCREEN, which we described in
Environmental Health Perspectives in 1991..."
Special Topic of
Bisphenol
A, Sep. 2009
"Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least
squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New
Hot Paper,
Mar. 2009
"It is generally a reference to the use of one out of the many
tools that are available in a program package named
PLATON..."
Emerging Research Front, Apr. 2010
"We demonstrated in this study that the majority of the pigs in
swine herds in the United States were infected by..."
Featured Scientist Interview, Jan. 2008
"The paper reports new results from the Wilkinson Microwave
Anisotropy Probe and synthesizes the WMAP results..."
Fast
Breaking Papers,
Feb. 2008
"Bayesian methods for data analysis allow great
flexibility for handling complex problems and including
multiple..."
Featured Paper Interview, Feb. 2009
"Our paper has been highly cited because we published some unique
observations of earthquake-induced..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
"Our paper was one of the first to demonstrate that extensively
used chemicals such as prescription..."
Fast Moving Front,
Jul. 2008
"Acrylamide was first discovered in food in Apr. 2002 by the
Swedish National Food Authority that reported..."
Featured Paper Interview, Oct. 2009
"This research was conducted at Nanomix Inc., a startup nanotech
company, which develops and commercializes
nanoelectronic...."
Fast Moving Fronts,
March 2011
"We show that a guardian protein is attacked and that this
attenuates the healing of an organ like the brain..."
New Hot Paper,
Nov. 2008
"Kari Stefansson, founder of deCODE genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland,
discusses his firm’s recent emergence from..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview,
September 2010
"We demonstrate that climate fluctuations affect the dynamics of
populations through how the ways in..."
Emerging Research Front,
Aug. 2008
"The paper describes a new discoveryin addition, the paper also
provides a new methodology..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Jun. 2008
"Stepwise modelling is an objective approach to determining the
most robust and supportable set of causal variables to
explain..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
January 2012
"The finite element method is the most popular method for
the numerical approximation of the solution of an
elliptic..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
January 2011
In this Fast Breaking Paper commentary, Stevo Stevic talks about
his 2009 J MATH ANAL APPL paper..."
Fast Breaking Papers,
Feb. 2010
"Working on Bloch-type spaces I
have realized that sometimes it is useful to use the norm on the
space by
taking..."
Fast Breaking Paper, Apr. 2009
"I initially became interested in studying obesity when I learned
that approximately 111,000 people die from
obesity-related..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
July 2010
"Our work provides a synthesis of emerging..."
New Hot Paper,
Jul. 2008
"This survey paper provides a broad overview of medical robot
systems used in surgery. As such, it provided..."
Fast Moving Front,
Jan. 2009
"Our article provides an overview of important personal and
situational...."
Emerging Research Front,
Dec. 2008
"In this Fast Moving Front commentary, John D. Storey talks with
ScienceWatch.com about his 2005..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Nov. 2009
"...our paper carefully examined several theories about
high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweetener in the food..."
Fast Moving Fronts, Nov. 2009
"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has produced a map of the Universe, a
census of the heavens, that can be used in..."
Fast Breaking Papers, Feb. 2010
"...the behavior of complex interconnected systems cannot be
understood without also understanding the..."
Featured Paper Interview, Dec. 2008
"The complex nature of current scientific goals, such as, e.g., the
detection of a weak dark matter..."
Emerging Research Fronts, Oct. 2009
"Easy-to-use matching methods have been recognized as offering
one..."
Fast Breaking Paper,
Oct. 2008
"The results in our article have the potential to increase the
effectiveness of causal inference..."
New Hot Papers, Jul. 2009
"Billions of individual songbirds leave their breeding grounds in
North America and Europe and fly thousands..."
Fast Moving Fronts,
September 2010
"...mesoporous materials, the work of Dr. Galen Stucky from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, ranked at #2..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous Materials, Nov. 2008
"FD is a rare genetic disorder that is characterized by multiple
defects, particularly in the peripheral nervous system..."
New Hot Papers,
January 2011
"This paper provided a comprehensive study on the synthesis
mechanism of highly ordered mesoporous..."
Special Topic of
Mesoporous Materials, Aug. 2008
"The idea is that episodic memory provides information for the
construction of future plans..."
New Hot Papers, Sep. 2009
"Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least
squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New Hot Paper,
Mar. 2009
"we have moved on from concerns about killing
wildlife with mass-produced chemicals such as oils and
pesticides...."
Special Topic of Bisphenol A (BPA), Feb. 2010
"This is a review article, presenting the state of the art in the
field of CA inhibitors and activators, as well as their
applications..."
New Hot Paper,
Mar. 2009
"At the time our paper was published, graphene had shown
extraordinary properties, such as high..."
Fast Moving Front, May 2010
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