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
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 March 2008 are listed
below. To view featured interviews from past months/years, visit the
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Featured Interviews
for March
2008:
Scott W.
Altmann ScienceWatch.com
Featured Fast Moving Front
Interview
Scott W.
Altmann discusses his Fast
Moving Front paper in the
field of
Pharmacology/Toxicology,
"Our paper represents one of
the first attempts to
summarize the results of
several decades of
experiments that have
examined the ecological
consequences of species
extinction. Our summary
gives us a rare glimpse of
what the world may become
in..."
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Article
Bradley J.
Cardinale talks about his
New Hot Paper in the field
of Environment/Ecology, "Our
paper represents one of the
first attempts to summarize
the results of several
decades of experiments that
have examined the ecological
consequences of species
extinction. Our summary
gives us a rare glimpse of
what the world may become
in..."
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Article
Hans-Christoph Diener ScienceWatch.com
Featured Special Topic Migraine
and Other Vascular Headaches
Interview
Professor Diener's work
includes 158 papers cited a
total of 3,024 times in the
field of Neuroscience &
Behavior and 222 papers cited a
total of 2,650 times in the
field of Clinical Medicine.
Professor Diener is the
chairman of the Department of
Neurology at the University of
Essen in Germany. He talks with
ScienceWatch.com his research
on the neurology of acute
migraine..."
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Article
Dr. Harris is the M. June and
J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in
Molecular Biology as well as
the Director of the Waggoner
Center for Alcohol and
Addiction Research at the
University of Texas in Austin.
In this interview, Dr. Harris
talks with ScienceWatch.com
about his highly cited work on
alcohol and anesthetic
pharmacology.
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Article
In our March 2008 Special Topic
on MRSA, the scientist ranked
at #1 is Professor Keiichi
Hiramatsu, with 51 papers,
cited a total of 3,598 times.
Three of his papers have also
made the list of the top 20
papers published in the past
decade. In Essential
Science Indicators,
Professor Hiramatsu is in the
top 1% of researchers in both
Clinical Medicine and
Microbiology.
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Article
Teruyo
Ito ScienceWatch.com
Featured Special Topic of
(MRSA) Interview
According to our March 2008
Special Topic on MRSA research
in the past decade, the
scientist ranking at #3 is
Professor Teruyo Ito, with 28
papers cited a total of 2,197
times. Professor Ito is an
Associate Professor in the
Department of Bacteriology at
the School of Medicine and in
the Department of Infection
Control Science at the Graduate
School of Medicine, Juntendo
University.,
Ph.D.
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In
Essential Science
Indicators, Professor
Murray's citation record
includes 163 papers cited a
total of 4,865 times in the
field of Psychiatry &
Psychology, as well as 52
papers cited a total of 1,427
times in the field of
Neuroscience & Behavior.
Professor Murray is a Professor
of Psychiatry in the Institute
of Psychiatry at the Maudsley,
King's College, University of
Londo0n; he is also a
consultant psychiatrist at
Maudsley
Hospital.
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Peter
Parham ScienceWatch.com
Featured Fast Moving Front
Interview
From the interview:
"This paper is a synthesis of
the first eight years of
research in an area of NK-cell
immunogenetics that was opened
up by an investigation from my
group published in two papers
in the journal
Immunity in December
1997. The background context
for that work was the biology
of the natural killer cell
(NK), a type of lymphocyte that
functions in innate
immunity..."
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Article
According to a recent analysis
of
Essential Science
IndicatorsSM
data, the work of Professor Tim
White has entered the top 1% in
the field of Social Sciences.
His current record in this
field includes 4 papers cited a
total of 185 times. He also has
5 papers in the
Multidisciplinary field, cited
a total of 135 times to date.
Professor White is affiliated
with the University of
California, Berkeley. In this
interview, he talks about his
highly cited anthropological
research.
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Article