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.
Featured interviews for January 2010 are listed below. To view featured
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The paper
describes the latest version of the
Jalview multiple sequence alignment
editor and analysis workbench.
Jalview is one of the most powerful
tools available for manipulating
sequence alignments and integrating
annotations from biological
databases around the world. As a
consequence, many
thousands..."
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This month,
ScienceWatch.com presents
a listing of the top 20
institutions which, according to
our Special Topic on Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(COPD), attracted the highest total
citations to their papers published
on the topic in Thomson
Reuters-indexed journals.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "I started working
in
nanotechnology
in the area of polymer nanotube
composites back in 1995-96. If
you add nanotubes to polymers,
you get plastics in composite
form that are much stronger and
stiffer. So we learned to make
these stiff strong plastics.
Then in 2002, I was working in
Dallas as a visiting
researcher..."
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The journal Dysphagia is
having a growing influence in the
field of Clinical Medicine. Its
citation record in this field
includes 399 papers cited a total
of 2,772 times between January 1,
1999 and August 31, 2009.
ScienceWatch.com talks
with several key members of the
editorial team about
Dysphagia's publication
history and citation
achievements.
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Excerpt from the
interview:
"
...over the last decade, my work
has largely concentrated on
understanding drivers of species
ranges, quantifying
species-environment relationships
in ecological models, and using
these models ultimately for
predicting species distributions.
My approach is thus deeply rooted
in a biogeographical
perspective..."
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This map of
GLOBAL
CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS is
based on research-front data for
the six-year period ending in
August 2009. The maps shows the
major component areas of the field
linked together in a network based
on the same principles as our
research-front maps showing highly
cited papers. 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: "Rick Holley is a
Professor of Food Science, Food
Microbiology, and Food Safety in
the Department of Food Science at
the University of Manitoba in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His
2005 FOOD MICROBIOL paper,
"Improvement in shelf-life and
safety of perishable foods by plant
essential oils and smoke..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Terence G. Langdon
is the William E. Leonard Professor
of Engineering at the Viterbi
School of Engineering in the
Department of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Southern California
in Los Angeles, CA. His 2006
PROG MATER SCI paper,
"Langdon, TG, "Principles of
equal-channel angular..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Occasionally real
science plays out just like the
movies: A brilliant experiment is
followed by a "Eureka!" moment, and
a new vision of the future reveals
itself. This was the case in 1996
when the Northwestern University
chemist Chad Mirkin witnessed a
solution of DNA-assembled
nanoparticles change from blue to
red..."
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Last monthScienceWatch.com presented
its annual "Top 20" listings of
countries (across all 22
fields), which as of the latest
bimonthly update of
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM,
achieved particular distinction
based on their papers published in
Clarivate-indexed journals
from January 1999 through August
31, 2009, a 10-year plus 8-month
period. This month we present the
highest-cited paper from each of
the top 20 countries..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Our research
describes and applies a novel
multi-attribute decision-making
method titled the COmplex
PRoportional ASsessment of
alternatives with Grey number
(COPRAS-G). The COPRAS method or
intelligent and biometric systems
based on this method may be used to
analyze different alternative
variants..."
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