In these interviews and essays, ScienceWatch.com from
Clarivate offers
a behind-the-scenes glimpse at research coming out of highly cited
institutions and organizations. In addition, ScienceWatch.com
provides selected overall and field rankings as well as pertinent
statistics on the principles behind the
data.
This month,ScienceWatch.compresents a listing of the top
20 institutions which, as of the fourth bimonthly update
of
Essential Science IndicatorsSM(January 1, 1998-August 31,
2008) attracted the highest total citations to their papers
published inThomson
Reuters-indexed
Psychiatry & Psychology journals. These institutions
are the top 20 out of a pool of 360 institutions comprising
the top 1% ranked by total citation count in this
field. View
Article
This month,ScienceWatch.compresents 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 inThomson
Reuters-indexed journals.
These institutions are the top 20 ranked by total cites out
of a pool of 1,392 institutions publishing on this
topic, based on a string of keywords, including
"underage," "college," "alcohol," and "drinking."
Interestingly enough, all 20 institutions are US-based,
despite the fact that research on illicit substance abuse
is not limited to the US. View
Article
This month, ScienceWatch.com presents a listing of
the top 20 institutions which, as of the third bimonthly
update of
Essential Science IndicatorsSM (January 1,
1998-June 30, 2008) attracted the highest total citations
to their papers published in Clarivate-indexed
Computer Science journals. These institutions are the top
20 out of a pool of 321 institutions comprising the top 1%
ranked by total citation count in this field. View
Article
In an analysis published in ScienceWatch.com in
July of this year, George Washington University was named a
Rising Star in
the field of Microbiology. In Essential Science
IndicatorsSM from Clarivate, GWU's
citation record in this field includes 156 papers cited a
total of 5,230 times. Correspondent Gary Taubes talks with
Dr. Peter Hotez, Professor and Chair of GWU's Department of
Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, about the
history and development of the department. View
Article
A recent analysis of papers in plant biology
highlighted the huge output of papers by the Department of
Plant Systems Biology at Ghent University in Belgium.
According toEssential Science
IndicatorsSMfrom Clarivate,
the university ranks at #31 worldwide among institutions in
Plant & Animal Science. In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com correspondent Simon Mitton talks
to the Director of the Department, Professor Dirk
Inzé, about the Department's history and the place
of plant research work in the world today. View
Article
In this month's
Rising
Star analysis, ScienceWatch.com
recognizes the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia (INGV) as having the highest percent increase
in total citations in the field of Geosciences from
December 2007 to February 2008. The INGV consists of
several research sections located throughout Italy, and
includes monitoring networks for earthquakes, volcanoes,
and other geophysical phenomena. In this interview,
President Enzo Boschi talks with us about the INGV's
history and citation achievements. View
Article
ScienceWatch.com presents a listing of the top 20
institutions which, as of the first bimonthly update of
Essential Science Indicators (January 1,
1998-February 29, 2008) attracted the highest total
citations to their papers published in Thomson
Reuters-indexed Social Sciences journals. These
institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 563
institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation
count in this field. View
Article
A recent analysis of data from Essential Science
Indicators from Clarivate named the University
of Maribor a New Entrant in the field of Physics. The
University's current citation record in Physics includes
511 papers cited 4,580 times. This month, Prof. Dr. Natasa
Vaupotic, the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics, talks with ScienceWatch.com about the
development of physics research at the University of
Maribor. View
Article
This month, ScienceWatch.com presents a listing of
the top 20 institutions which, as of the sixth bimonthly
update of Essential Science Indicators from
Thomson Scientific, 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. View
Article
According to a recent analysis of Essential Science
Indicators from Thomson Scientific, the University of
Rochester has moved into the top 1% of the database in the
field of Geosciences. In this interview, Professor Fehn
talks with ScienceWatch.com about the history and
current activities of Geosciences at Rochester. View
Article
Georgia Institute of Technology is wielding an increasing
impact in the field of Economics & Business, having
achieved the highest percent increase in total citations in
this field according to a recent analysis of Essential
Science Indicators data. Georgia Tech’s current
citation record in Economics & Business includes 338
papers cited a total of 2,278 times to date.
Representatives of the Georgia Tech College of Management
talk to ScienceWatch.com about the school’s
history and citation achievements.
View
Article