In these interviews, scientists talk to ScienceWatch.com and
offer behind-the-scenes insights into their research: reflections on
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
Clarivate
citation data, and on how research in their respective fields has
progressed over time and will likely unfold in the future.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I have always been
aware that COPD is a major clinical
problem, but I only started to do
research into COPD around 10 years
ago. At that time very little was
known about the underlying cellular
and molecular mechanisms, so we
started to use some of the research
approaches that we had developed in
asthma to look at the
nature..."
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This
month,ScienceWatch.compresents
a listing of the top 20
institutions which, as of the fifth
bimonthly update of
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM(January
1, 1999-October 31, 2009) attracted
the highest total citations to
their papers published in
Clarivate-indexed
Engineering
journals.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Over the past
several years, pharmaceuticals are
considered as an emerging
environmental problem due to their
continuous input and persistence
into the aquatic ecosystem even at
low concentrations. This continuous
release into the environment may
constitute a long-term potential
risk for aquatic and terrestrial
organisms..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The work done by
my co-workers and I on the analysis
of melamine came in response to the
pet food poisoning incident in
2007. This incident illuminated
previously unknown issues regarding
melamine adulteration of Chinese
pet food additives and the toxicity
of melamine and its analogs. An
incident involving
melamine's..."
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Dejian Huang is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of
Chemistry and also Acting Director
of the Science and Technology
Program at the National University
of Singapore. He is first author of
a Current Classics paper in the
field of Agricultural Sciences for
Aug. 2009, Huang, DJ, et.
al, "The chemistry..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I founded the
international journal ICAE
"based on the premise that
interdisciplinary thinking and
synergistic collaboration of
disciplines can solve complex
problems, open new frontiers, and
lead to true innovations and
breakthroughs" as noted in my
Editorial in the inaugural issue of
the journal published in July
1993..."
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To create a field map, we first
identify all research fronts
pertaining to the main field, and
then compute the linkage between
fronts based on how often they are
co-cited—that is, the
frequency that current papers
jointly cite two given fronts. A
clustering process then groups
fronts into larger aggregates. Each
circle on the map represents a
group, or cluster, of research
fronts on a broad topic within the
main field.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Ants occupy almost
every terrestrial niche on the
planet, so understanding how they
came to this ecological dominance
and the time frames involved is an
intriguing question. The results of
our 2006 research published in the
journal "Science" suggest that ants
are considerably older than had
been appreciated based..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The Sloan Digital
Sky Survey has produced a map of
the Universe, a census of the
heavens, that can be used in every
area of astronomical research, from
studies of asteroids in the Solar
System to the most distant quasars.
It is a fully public dataset, that
has been used by thousands of
researchers all over the world.
This paper describes..."
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This month from
ScienceWatch.com, we have
listed our ranking in Biology &
Biochemistry by citations per
paper. The data were extracted from
the
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM
database from
Clarivate. This database,
currently covering the period
January 1999 through October 31,
2009, surveys only journal articles
(original research reports and
review articles) indexed by Thomson
Reuters.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "...we have
moved on from concerns about
killing wildlife with mass-produced
chemicals such as oils and
pesticides. What we have realized
in the last 10 years is that we
have contaminated the natural world
with many chemicals that we all get
exposed to, that do not cause acute
toxicity, but they might cause
important effects on
reproduction..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "In December of
2009, the paper "TGF beta in the
context of an inflammatory cytokine
milieu supports de novo
differentiation of IL-17-producing
T cells," (Veldhoen M, et
al., Immunity 24(2):
179-89, February 2006) was named a
Current Classic in the field of
Immunology. At present, the paper
ranks among the top 100
Highly..."
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