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 November 2008 are listed
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This is a
theoretical paper, and its essence
is a model that we proposed to
explain the origin of the power
laws seen in various complex
networks. The model, based on the
idea that networks grow by the
addition of new nodes, and these
new nodes have a tendency to link
to more connected nodes
(preferential attachment),
was..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper
considered the possibility of
combining screen-printed thick-film
piezoelectric layers with
micromachined silicon structures
for use in
MEMS. It was
an extensive practical
exploration of the compatibility
of micromachining process with
the deposited films. This
included common wet and dry
etching
processes..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper was the
first meta-analysis—or
quantitative summary—of the
research on motivational
interviewing (MI), a relatively new
treatment for substance abuse (and
other problem behaviors) that
combines humanistic principles of
change with cognitive-behavioral
techniques. The central idea is
that the client decides
what..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Global coupled
climate models (CGCM2) reported in
the Intergovernmental Planet on
Climate Change (IPCC) 3rd and 4th
assessment reports suggest a 25%
slowing of the AMOC by 2100. Hence,
it is uncertain whether there could
be a rapid or prolonged slowing of
the AMOC in response to global
warming. Whilst in situ
ocean..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The paper was a
timely overview and synthesis of
the possible impacts of climate
warming on polar bears. The paper
has been used by a wide variety of
scientists working on other Arctic
marine mammals, sea ice dynamics,
and climate warming, as a global
biodiversity issue. Soon after
publication, polar bears..."
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To survey Energy & Fuels
research in recent years,
Science Watch collected
more than 100,000 pertinent papers
indexed by Clarivate since
1998. From this body of work, the
most highly cited institutions,
authors, and journals were
identified. Among institutions, the
U.S. national laboratories stand
out, as do a number of
universities, especially Princeton
University, Pennsylvania State
University, and Imperial College
London.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The paper showed
that NRT medications used for
self-treatment as OTCs were not
only effective, but equally
effective as getting NRT by
prescription from a doctor. The
paper uses a well-accepted
statistical method (meta-analysis)
to collate results across studies
of whether OTC NRT is more
effective than OTC placebo and as
effective as NRT..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The editorial team
has been working extremely hard to
ensure that the published papers in
IJICIC are of high
quality, representing the
up-to-date advancements in the
fields of advanced computing
techniques, intelligent systems and
information processing, and novel
automatic control
methodologies..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Photonic crystals,
in general, are periodic
arrangements of two or more optical
materials (e.g., glass and air).
One of the exciting properties that
a photonic crystal can possess is a
photonic band gap, a range of
wavelengths in which light cannot
penetrate the crystal—it acts
like a kind of "optical insulator."
In order to obtain a true
photonic..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The study
describes a new discovery that
estrogen treatment was associated
with lower levels of subclinical
coronary artery disease (coronary
artery calcium by noninvasive CT
imaging) in women aged 50-59 in the
WHI estrogen-alone trial. The key
findings are summarized in the
table below. Higher levels of
coronary..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This review
challenges a number of prevailing
views on matrix metalloproteinases
(MMPs), brings together an enormous
amount of information in a critical
way, and has an important positive
message for the future development
of matrix metalloproteinase
inhibitors (MMPIs). For instance,
we challenge..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "This paper sets
the stage for understanding the
processes by which health behavior
change theories and approaches
could be translated into successful
intervention strategies. It
addresses the challenges and
opportunities for behavioral health
interventions to modify three of
the nation's most important
behavioral risk
factors—tobacco use..."
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Excerpt from the
interview:"...a
listing of the top 20 institutions
which, according to our
Special Topic on underage/college
drinking, attracted the highest
total citations to their papers
published on the topic in
Clarivate-indexed
journals. These institutions are
the top 20 ranked by total cites
out of a pool of 1,392 institutions
publishing on this
topic...
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Dr. Galen Stucky from the
University of California, Santa
Barbara, ranked at #2 by total
citations, #7 by total papers, and
#1 by cites/paper, based on 61
papers cited a total of 9,833
times. Dr. Stucky's citation record
includes 240 papers. In this
interview, he talks with
ScienceWatch.com
correspondent Gary Taubes about his
work in mesoporous materials.
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Theoharis
Theoharides is Professor of
Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics at the Tufts
University Sackler School of
Graduate Biomedical Sciences in
Boston, MA. Here he discusses
the mandatory role played by
neurogenic inflammation in the
development of a number of
diseases. Podcast added Nov. 1,
2008.
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Excerpt from the
interview: "Heavy alcohol use
has been present at colleges since
Colonial days. It remains so.
During the period of the College
Alcohol Study, binge drinking has
remained at a remarkably consistent
44% overall, and has been level at
the 119 participating colleges,
where it ranges from 1% to almost
80%..."
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Excerpt from the
interview: "The article is
highly cited largely because there
is such widespread interest in the
exciting discoveries of exceptional
fossils that have been made in the
lacustrine Lower Cretaceous
deposits of northeastern China.
These finds have contributed
significantly to shaping our views
on the evolution of a number of
important groups..."
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(Additional
interviews/commentaries will be
added during November 2008)