Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the results of its annual roundup of the 'hottest' researchers and research papers. In the March/April issue of its subscription newsletter Science Watch, Thomson Scientific identifies the top 10 authors who fielded the highest number of Hot Papers in 2006-2007. The annual Science Watch roundup also lists the scientific reports published during 2007 (aside from reviews) that were most cited by year's end.
This year, owing to their participation in two large, multiauthor collaborations, a trio of high energy physicists ended Osaka University's Shizuo Akira's two-year streak at the top spot. Basanta K. Nandi of Indian Institute of Technology, Mikhail Kopytine of Kent State University and Thomas Peitzmann of Utrecht University each garnered 12 Hot Papers, topping the list. Shizuo Akira followed closely behind the three physicists with 11 Hot Papers focused on immunology, in particular, pathogen recognition. This marks the fourth year in a row Akira has made the Hottest Researchers list.
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 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.
While last year, the United States accounted for 60 percent of the "Hottest" researchers, this time, seven out of the top ten researchers come from American institutions. Rounding out the list are researchers from India, the Netherlands and Japan, each with one researcher.
The New England Journal of Medicine fielded three of the top five papers and 15 overall. The 'Hottest' paper of 2007, 'Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe observations: Implications for cosmology' was able to provide solid evidence in favour of a simple cosmological model. Its citation count from 2006 through 2007 was 204.
A complete list of rankings is available at Thomson Scientific's recently launched website, ScienceWatch.com.
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