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what led them to their chosen field, the motivation driving their work
in a given direction, and the challenges encountered along on the way.
These authors also offer their views on why their work has wielded
particular influence in the scientific community, as indicated by
Thomson Scientific
citation data, and on how research in their respective fields has
progressed over time and will likely unfold in the future.
Featured interviews for April 2008 are listed below.
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Featured Interviews
for April
2008:
Carlo M.
Croce-
ScienceWatch.com Featured
Science
Watch®
Newsletter Interview
An interview with Ohio
State’s Carlo M. Croce, "A
Macro View of MicroRNA." Croce
notes that alterations or defects
in miRNA processing could
ultimately be implicated in a range
of other diseases, such as bipolar
disorder,
schizophrenia,
and
Alzheimer’s,
and that therapeutic
applications based on miRNA will
have a substantial effect on
medicine within the next few
years."
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Article
Professor Jerome Etienne ranks at
#9 in our Special Topic on MRSA
research over the past decade.
Professor Etienne at the University
of Lyon as well as a practitioner
at the hospital and deputy director
of the National Reference Centre
for Staphylococci. He talks about
his highly cited MRSA
research.
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Article
Michel Ferrari-
an Interview from the Special Topic
of Migraine & Other Vascular
Headaches
In Special Topics analysis of
migraine research over the past
decade, the work of Prof. Dr.
Michel Ferrari ranks at #3 by total
citations, #4 by total papers, and
#3 by cites/paper. In addition, he
has 6 papers on the list of the top
20 papers from the past 10 years
and 3 papers on the 2-year list.
Prof. Dr. Ferrari is Professor of
Neurology at the Leiden University
Medical Center in The
Netherlands.
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Article
JH He -
ScienceWatch.com Featured
Scientist Interview
Professor Ji-Huan He has been named
a
Rising Star in the field of
Computer Science. His citation
record in this field includes 21
papers cited a total of 306 times
between January 1, 1997 and
December 31, 2007. Professor He is
affiliated with Donghua University
in Shanghai, China. He discusses
his highly cited research in
analytical methods, in particular
the homotopy perturbation
method.
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Article
Eric Herbst- an
Interview from the Special Topic of
Astrochemistry
According to our April 2008 Special
Topic on Astrochemistry, the
scientist whose work ranks at #9 by
total citations is Dr. Eric Herbst,
with 23 papers cited a total of 273
times. Dr. Herbst's citation record
includes 129 papers, mostly
classified in the field of Space
Science. He is also a
Highly Cited
Researcher in Space
Sciences.
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Article
Founded in 1988, JAIDS is
published by Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins, a division of
Wolters Kluwer Health. In this
interview, Clinical Science Editor
Paul Volberding talks about the
journal's history and citation
record.
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From the feature: "Our
paper is likely highly cited
because it provides a comprehensive
review of findings in the
literature based on the application
of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
to
schizophrenia.
This is a very exciting area of
research, as DTI is quite a new
and powerful technology for
evaluating white matter
pathology..."
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Article
Garry Nolan -ScienceWatch.com Featured
Scientist Interview
According to a recent analysis, Dr.
Nolan has Highly Cited Papers in
the fields of Clinical Medicine and
Biology & Biochemistry. Nolan
is currently an Associate Professor
in the Department of Molecular
Pharmacology and the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology at
Stanford University School of
Medicine. In this interview, he
talks about his highly cited
work.
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Article
Jes Olesen- an Interview from the
Archived Special Topic of Migraine
& Other Vascular Headaches
Dr. Olesen is a professor at the
University of Copenhagen, and the
chief of the Danish Headache
Center, in the Department of
Neurology at Glostrup University
Hospital in Copenhagen. He is also
a member of the International
Headache Society, and a fellow of
the Royal College of Physicians. In
this interview, he discusses his
migraine research.
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Article
Dr. Paula J.
Reimer is a Senior Lecturer in
the School of Geography,
Archaeology and Palaeoecology
(GAP) and Director of the
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the
Environment, and Chronology at
Queen’s University in
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Reimer is a
Current Classics scientist in
Geo., Apr. 2008. Listen to podcast:
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Fred Tenover -
Special Topic of
Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
In our March 2008 Special Topic on
MRSA, Dr. Fred Tenover's work ranks
at #2, with 38 papers cited a total
of 2,218 times. His citation record
includes 107 papers cited a total
of 4,968 times in the field of
Clinical Medicine, and 26 papers
cited a total of 986 times in the
field of Microbiology. Dr. Tenover
is the Director of the Office of
Antimicrobial Resistance, part of
the Coordinating Center for
Infectious Diseases at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Article
This month,
ScienceWatch.com presents
a listing of the top 20
institutions which attracted the
highest total citations to their
papers published in Thomson
Scientific-indexed Plant &
Animal Science journals. These
institutions are the top 20 out of
a pool of 768 institutions
comprising the top 1% ranked by
total citation count in this
field.
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Prof. Dr. Ewine van Dishoeck ranks
at #1 by both total citations and
total papers in our Special Topic
on astrochemistry, with 43 papers
cited a total of 687 times. Prof.
Dr. van Dishoeck is on the Faculty
of the Leiden Observatory in the
Netherlands, where she holds the
title of Professor of Molecular
Astrophysics.
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Article
The Xia group at
the Department of Biomedical
Engineering at Washington
University in St. Louis is
pursuing cutting-edge research
in three major frontiers:
nanotechnology, materials
chemistry, and photonic devices.
Younan Xia is a
Current
Classics scientist in Mat.
Sci., Dec. 2007.
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