SPECIAL TOPICS

Autophagy - July 2009

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Read interviews, first-person essays, profiles, and other features about people in a wide variety of fields, along with information on journals & institutions in the topic of Autophagy. All of the author comments below are also listed in the site-wide Author Commentaries listings (available by month/year or alphabetically).

	December 2009 Eiki Kominami; According to our Special Topics analysis on autophagy research over the past decade, the work of Dr. Eiki Kominami ranks at #5 by total number of papers and #6 by total number of citations, based on 51 papers cited a total of 3,245 times. In Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters, Dr. Kominami's record includes 115 papers, the majority of which are classified under either Biology & Biochemistry or Molecular Biology & Genetics, cited a total of 5,112 times between January 1, 1999 and August 31, 2009. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with him about his highly cited research.  View Article
	November 2009 Patrice Codogno; In our Special Topics analysis on autophagy, the work of Dr. Patrice Codogno ranks at #9 by total papers and at #10 by total cites, based on 39 papers cited a total of 1,994 times. According to Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, his record includes 56 papers, the majority of which are classified under Biology & Biochemistry, cited a total of 2,500 times between January 1, 1999 and June 30, 2009. This month, ScienceWatch.com talks with about Dr. Codogno about his research in autophagy. View Article
	October 2009 Isei Tanida; According to our Special Topics analysis on autophagy research over the past decade, the work of Dr. Isei Tanida ranks at #9, with 33 papers cited a total of 2,195 times. In Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, Dr. Tanida's record includes 37 papers, the majority of which are classified under Biology & Biochemistry, cited a total of 2,389 times. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with him about his highly cited work. View Article
	September 2009 Dan Klionsky; The University of Michigan’s Daniel Klionsky discusses cellular autophagy, or, literally, “self-eating,” a process long considered by many researchers to be merely a routine part of the cell’s housekeeping and therefore unworthy of study, but now acknowledged and widely scrutinized as a key cellular mechanism that has been linked to cancer, neurodegeneration, and other conditions. The ability to manipulate autophagy is currently being examined as a potential therapeutic approach. View Article
	September 2009 Yoshinori Ohsumi; According to our Special Topics analysis of autophagy research over the past decade, the work of Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi ranks at #1 by total number of papers and #2 by total cites, based on 93 papers cited a total of 7,061 times. In Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, Prof. Ohsumi's record includes 115 papers cited a total of 7,436 times between January 1, 1999 and April 30, 2009. In this interview, he talks with ScienceWatch.com about his highly cited research. View Article
	August 2009 Noboru Mizushima; Dr. Noboru Mizushima is the top-ranked scientist by total cites in our Special Topics analysis on autophagy, based on 82 papers cited a total of 7,376 times. In Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, his work includes 92 papers cited a total of 7,628 times between January 1, 1999 and April 30, 2009. At present, Dr. Mizushima is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. In this interview, he talks with ScienceWatch.com about his work in this field. View Article
	July 2009 David Rubinsztein; In the Special Topics analysis on autophagy, the paper "Inhibition of mTOR induces autophagy and reduces toxicity of polyglutamine expansions in fly and mouse models of Huntington disease," (Ravikumar B, et al., Nat. Genet. 36[6]: 585-95, June 2004) appears on both the list of the 20 most-cited papers in the past decade and the Research Front Map on Autophagy. The leading scientist behind this paper is Professor David Rubinsztein, who, in this interview, talks with ScienceWatch.com about this paper and its impact on the field of autophagy. View Article