in cites
provides a behind the scenes look at the scientists, journals,
institutions, nations, and papers selected by ISI
Essential Science Indicators
Web product. Read interviews and first-person essays about people
in a wide variety of fields and professions. View
selected overall and field rankings, pertinent statistics on the
principles behind the data, the latest version of the database,
including new entrants and most improved entities in the rankings,
information on field definitions, citation thresholds, and
graphing trends. Updated weekly is SCI-BYTES: a summary of what’s
new in research.
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 According
to the ISI
Essential Science Indicators
Web product, the paper "Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide
dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis," (Nature 362[6415]: 59-62, 4
March 1993) is currently the fifth most-cited paper in the
field of Neuroscience & Behavior over the past decade. In
this essay, the paper’s primary author, Dr. Daniel
Rosen, relates the interesting course of his career both
before and after this seminal paper...
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 Dr.
Edward Korzus talks about his highly cited work on molecular
mechanisms controlling gene expression. According to a recent analysis by in-cites,
Korzus
achieved the highest percent increase in citations in the field of
Biology. His record in the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators Web product currently
includes 7 papers cited a total of 1,235 times to date in this field...
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 Editor-in-Chief Dr. Michael Hochberg
of Ecology
Letters talks about the journal’s
success...
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 Polytechnic
University was founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 1854, and is the
second-oldest private engineering university in the United
States. Listed also are the top 5 papers and corresponding
graphs for Polytechnic
University...
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 Rankings
for Japan
among the 150 top-performing countries in all
fields...
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 The
100 Most-Cited Scientists in:
Biology
& Biochemistry, Chemistry,
Economics
& Business, Immunology,
Microbiology, Molecular
Biology & Genetics, Neuroscience,
Pharmacology &
Toxicology, Physics
(updated Sept. 2003).
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- What's New in Research
What's really hot in research? Each week, the ISI Research
Services Group provides an update based on their
Research Performance & Evaluation Tools.
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New
Entrants to ESI Rankings
The
most-cited new entrants in each of ISI Essential
Science Indicators' 22 fields, for the most recent
bimonthly update, and for earlier updates as well.
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Most
Improved
A listing of the most-improved entities in each of ISI
Essential Science Indicators' 22 fields, for the
most recent bimonthly update, and for earlier updates
as well.
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Special Topics provides citation analyses and
expert commentary for selected scientific research
areas that have experienced notable recent advances as
indicated in the ISI Essential
Science Indicators database. Read interviews,
essays and profiles for Fast
Breaking Papers, New
Hot Papers, Emerging
Research Fronts, Fast
Moving Fronts, and for all of the featured Special
Topics. |
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incites
is dedicated to providing commentary and analysis on
some of the most important scientific advances of
our time in the words of the scientists who made
those advances. It is designed to complement the
citation count rankings featured in ISI
Essential Science Indicators Web product from ISI ,
a ten-year compilation of citation statistics on
scientific authors, papers, institutions, countries,
and journals; updated bimonthly. Read
more about incites. |
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Other
Editorial Components of ISI
Essential Science Indicators:
- tracking trends and performance in basic research.
ISI publishes Science
Watch, the subscription newsletter that uses the
unique citation data of ISI to provide rankings, interviews,
and reports on today's most significant science.
ESI
Special Topics provides citation analyses and expert
commentary for selected scientific research areas that have
experienced notable recent advances as indicated in the ISI Essential
Science Indicators database. |
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