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More interviews and essays are available in the other incites areas, as well as in Special Topics, and Science Watch - the other editorial components of ISI Essential Science Indicators . In addition, the citation statistics for these and other researchers are available through the ISI Essential Science Indicators data.

December 2001
Switzerland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, Switzerland's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
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November 2001
Latin America is steadily increasing its presence on the world scientific stage, according to a new Science Watch^® survey. As the graph indicates, Latin America's world share of ISI-indexed scientific literature in all fields has more than doubled since 1981 and continues to trend upward sharply.
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October 2001
Countries that showed the greatest increase in total citations in a specific field, comparing ISI Essential Science Indicators, Web product data for 1991-April 2001 against data for 1991-June 2001.
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September 2001 
In recent years South Korea has steadily increased its share of the world's scientific literature, according to a new Science Watch survey. In output of published papers, South Korea now surpasses Taiwan and other neighbors in the Pacific Rim. This increase has been accompanied by a rise in the number of highly cited papers produced by South Korean institutions, as well as an upward trend in the nation's citation impact in key fields.
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August 2001 
On October 30th, 2000, at the Tokyo-American Club in Tokyo, ISI-Thomson Scientific honored 30 Japanese scientists as Citation Laureates—researchers who, since 1981, have each published more than a dozen high-impact, or world-class, papers in their field, as measured by citations.
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