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THOMSON SCIENTIFIC NAMES HOTTEST RESEARCHERS OF 2005-2006
For the second consecutive year, Japanese researcher tops highly cited list. The United States accounts for more than half of the top researchers.Philadelphia, PA USA, London UK — March 5, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Osaka University’s Shizuo Akira, author of seven highly cited papers in the field of Immunology, has been recognized as the 2005-2006 “Hottest Researcher.” This is the second consecutive year Akira has received this distinction, as reported in the March/April issue of Thomson Scientific’s Science Watch newsletter.
“Each year, our list of the most highly cited researchers allows us to recognize those who are reaching the highest level of success in scientific research,” said Chris King, editor of Science Watch. “This list serves to highlight those who are authoring multiple Hot Papers and thus, making significant contributions to modern scientific thought.”
Thomson Scientific Hot Papers are derived from the Web of Science® database. A published work is identified as a Hot Paper if it has achieved a rate of citations in scientific journals that is markedly higher than papers of comparable type and age. The researchers named have published the most Hot Papers in the latest two-year period indexed by Thomson Scientific for inclusion in Web of Science.
Besides Akira, Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the only other researcher making a second consecutive appearance on the list. He earned this position with six papers in the field of Space Science. Last year, he also had six Hot Papers.
“Hottest” Researchers, ranked by number of Hot Papers:
(Ordered by average citations per paper)
| Name |
Institution |
Field |
No. of |
|
Shizuo Akira |
Osaka University |
Immunology |
7 |
| John L. Bryant | University of Pittsburgh | Biostatistics/Oncology |
6 |
| Norman Wolmark | Allegheny General Hospital | Oncology |
6 |
| Richard D. Gelber | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Biostatistics/Oncology |
6 |
| Max Tegmark | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Space Science |
6 |
| Mikhail Kopytine | Kent State University | Physics |
6 |
| Basanta K. Nandi | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Physics |
6 |
| Thomas Peitzmann | Utrecht University, Netherlands | Physics |
6 |
| Mark J. Daly | Harvard Medical School | Genetics |
5 |
| John F. Forbes | University of Newcastle, Australia | Oncology |
5 |
| James N. Ingle | Mayo Clinic Cancer Center | Oncology |
5 |
| Aman U. Buzdar | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | Oncology |
5 |
| Scott M. Grundy | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Nutrition/Metabolism |
5 |
| John Cuzik | Cancer Research United Kingdom Clinical Center | Epidemiology/Oncology |
5 |
| Aron Goldhirsch | European Institute of Oncology, Milan | Oncology |
5 |
| Louis Mauriac | Institut Bergonie, Bordeaux, France | Oncology |
5 |
| Louis Fehrenbacher | Kaiser Permanente | Oncology |
5 |
The United States led the rankings with the appearance of 10 “Hot” researchers named to the list, nearly 60 percent. This is more than any other nation for the 2005-2006 period. Last year, the United States accounted for 48 percent of the “Hottest” researchers.
Countries with “Hot” researchers:
(Ordered by number of “Hot” researchers)
| Country | Number of “Hot” |
| United States
Australia France India Italy Japan Netherlands United Kingdom |
10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 |
The field of Oncology dominated the 2005-2006 period with 10 of the 17 researchers listed. Physics was the second most prominent field with three researchers producing Hot Papers.
“When you see one field featured so prominently in these rankings, it is because of multi-author collaborations on a particularly hot topic,” said King.
“All of the ‘Hot’ researchers in the Oncology field have been associated with recent, multi-author Hot Papers on breast cancer, and in Physics, Mikhail Kopytine, Basanta K. Nandi and Thomas Peitzmann were all members of large, high-energy collaborations.”
“Hottest”
Fields:
(Ranked by number of “Hot” researchers)
| Field | Number of “Hot” |
| Oncology
Physics Space Science Immunology Genetics Nutrition/Metabolism |
10 3 1 1 1 1 |
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