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The People's Republic of China - Country Profile

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

According to Essential Science Indicators, among the 148 top-performing countries in all fields, the People's Republic of China ranked #12 for citations (2,294,868), #5 for papers (529,279), and #116 (4.34) for citations per paper. This feature includes rankings in all fields for the People's Republic of China. From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Rising Stars

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

The scientists, institutions, countries, and journals that have achieved the highest percentage increase in total citations from the first to the second bimonthly period of 2008—that is, from February to April 2008. These entities are singled out as Rising Stars in their respective fields. From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

What's Hot in Biology

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

"Reprogramming Adult Cells Into Stem-Cell-Like State." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Fast Moving Fronts for September 2008

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:33:04 -0400

From the database of Essential Science Indicators, a list of Fast Moving Fronts has been generated by a comparison of the data sets for the current period of March 2002-April 30, 2008, and the previous period of January 2002-February 29, 2008. Three RFs were selected for mapping from the list of FMFs from this period. They are: GRAPHENE DOPING - Phy. and THERMAL ANALYSIS AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY - Eng.

India's New Millennium in Science - Science Watch® Newsletter Analysis

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

After a long period of sluggish growth, India's output of papers has risen sharply since the year 2000, while the citation impact of the nation's research has also been trending upward, notably in such fields as physics, materials, and other specialty areas in the physical sciences. Figures also suggest that India-based authors are collaborating at an increasing rate with multinational coauthors. From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Special Topic of Multiple Sclerosis

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

The baseline time span for this database is (publication years) 1998-April 30, 2008 from the second bimonthly update (a 10-year + 4-month period). The resulting database contained 7,808 (10 years) and 2,185 (2 years) papers; 17,918 authors; 81 nations; 918 journals; and 4,673 institutions. From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Microbiology at George Washington University - Institutional Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "Over the next few years I want our department to become a go-to department for solving problems of parasitic diseases and HIV/AIDS in developing countries. This includes developing new vaccines for parasitic diseases and other infections. I think co-infections are going to be huge. I think we’re on the verge of making..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

BMC Evolutionary Biology - Featured Journal Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "BMC Evolutionary Biology will continue to publish high-quality research in evolutionary biology, and break down barriers between different fields. Another key goal for the journal is to make it easier for researchers to share not just their results, but also the datasets that were analyzed to produce those results..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Cosette M. Wheeler - Special Topic of Human Papillomavirus Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "Because human papillomaviruses, to our knowledge, are not changing rapidly and thus are apparently somewhat "fixed," we don’t think some new monster virus is going to arise from the evolutionary pressures of HPV vaccination. What we showed is that HPVs vary—as compared to saying they mutate..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Olga G. Troyanskaya - Featured Scientist Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: " My group’s research is in the area of computational functional genomics, specifically in developing novel computational methods for the prediction of protein function, interactions, and regulation from diverse high-throughput biological data. We aim to develop algorithms and systems..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Roger Powell & Tim Holland - Featured Paper Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "What this paper provides is a dataset of thermodynamic properties of the constituents (end-members) of the minerals, fluids, and melt that are needed in order to perform calculations on the conditions of formation of rocks. It is an internally consistent dataset..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Ron Kessler & Jim Hudson - Podcast

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

Ron Kessler, Professor of Healthcare Policy & Jim Hudson, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, discuss binge eating disorder and the link to obesity. This podcast accompanies their New Hot Paper commentary on the same topic (May 2008). From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Daniel Kammen & Richard Plevin - Special Topic of Biofuels Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "...determined that ethanol from cellulosic feedstocks might be dramatically less greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive than corn ethanol, which even if refined properly, offered at best a slight reduction in GHG emissions versus gasoline..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Mietek Jaroniec - Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "The term "mesoporous materials" refers to solids with broad or narrow distribution of pores in the range between 2 and 50 nm, which form a disordered or ordered network. In my studies at M. Curie-Sklodowska University, I was primarily interested in interfacial chemistry...." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Roel Hammerschlag - Special Topic of Biofuels Interview

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "The paper is a literature review of energy-return-on-investment (EROI) analyses for corn and cellulosic ethanol. The paper has received citation attention because it succeeds in normalizing and comparing multiple research teams' results, and because it is transparent and easy to read..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Avinash Kumar Agarwal - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "The paper covers all aspects of biofuels (biodiesel and alcohol), starting from the production stage and fuel characterization..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Wolfgang Baumeister - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "...it became immediately clear that this paper marked a breakthrough in demonstrating for the first time that cryoelectron (cryo-ET) tomography..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Julia Balogun & Gerry Johnson - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "Our paper is highly cited as it fits within several different research conversations. First it is a paper about sensemaking..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Sankar Das Sarma - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "This paper is highly cited because it solves the outstanding quantum mechanical problem of theoretically..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Alisdir R. Fernie- Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "Fruit and leaf material was harvested at different developmental stages and its chemical composition analyzed by gas..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Stephen W. Schaeffer - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "The Richards et al. (2005) article is highly cited because of the value of the Drosophila pseudoobscura genome sequence data and also because the paper..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

S. Joseph Wright - Fast Moving Front Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "The paper is a review that attempts to synthesize the impact of a wide range of anthropogenic drivers on tropical forests. Interest in this subject is intense because tropical..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Donald E. Cutlip - New Hot Paper Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "...placement of a stent or small metal tube to open a blocked artery. A new form of stent that was coated with medication..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Robert J. Lefkowitz - New Hot Paper Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "This discovery has led to a completely new understanding or paradigm for how the receptors work, which has important..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh - New Hot Paper Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "This paper has important information about how mammals evolve. It suggested that the major changes in the genome that lead to evolutionary changes in body plans and..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.

Lyman Page - New Hot Paper Commentary

Spyder Schafer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:18 -0400

From the interview: "We measure the polarization in light left over from the Big Bang over large swaths of sky. The degree of polarization tells us when the first stars formed. Armed with this information..." From the ScienceWatch.com September 1, 2008 update.