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In Latest "Top Ten" Roundup, Harvard Holds the High Ground
In the latest installment of a series that has appeared every four years
since 1994, Science Watch ranks the Top Ten U.S. universities in
21 main fields according to “relative impact”—an
assessment of each university’s cites-per-paper mark compared to the
world impact average for the field. Overall, Harvard University registers
most strongly, appearing in 17 of the 21 Top Ten rankings, including seven
of the nine biological-sciences fields presented here.
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ScienceWatch.com Special Topic of the Month
Oil Spill Research, 2000-2010
The recent devastation to the Gulf of Mexico caused by the
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent spill
of close to 5 million barrels of crude oil has caught the world's
attention. This is the largest marine oil spill in the history of the
petroleum industry, though it is hardly an isolated incident. In fact,
this year alone, there have been oil spills in China, India, Egypt, and
three others in the US—one in Michigan and two more in the Gulf of
Mexico unrelated to the Deepwater Horizon spill—for which
cleanup efforts are still ongoing. With this analysis, Special Topics
examines the literature on oil spills over the past decade and over the
past two years.
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Top: Seeds are encased in acrylic poles used for the facade of the Seed Cathedra. REUTERS/Aly Song.
Bottom: A volunteer sprays pressurised water to clean fuel oil on the stained seafront promenade of Spain's northwestern coastal village of Muxia April 18, 2003. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal.