Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the results of its annual roundup of the ‘hottest’ researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, Thomson Reuters identified the dozen authors whose recent papers were cited most often by other researchers during 2009.
Biochemist Rudolf Jaenisch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been named the world’s ‘hottest’ researcher, authoring 14 Hot Papers. His research investigates reprogrammed fibroblast cells in models of Parkinson's disease, sickle-cell anemia and other conditions. He is joined by scientists scattered from Ann Arbor to Osaka on the annual Thomson Reuters list of the world’s 12 hottest researchers.
Mark J. Daly from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard produced 13 Hot Papers on genetic mapping and genome-wide association studies. Several of these reports were co-authored with David Altshuler and Paul I.W. de Bakker from the Broad Institute and Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan - all of whom are making their first appearance in the annual Top 12 list.
Thomson Reuters Hot Papers are derived from its Web of Science database. A published work is identified as a Hot Paper if it is less than two years old and 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 Reuters for inclusion in Web of Science.
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