Only about 8% of highly cited papers in
Essential Science IndicatorsSM
from Thomson
Reuters have one or more authors with corporate affiliations,
that is, authors who work for a company or corporation as opposed to
a university or other research institution. The research fronts
listed here have 20% or more of their affiliations from the
corporate sector and at least ten highly cited papers. The strong
representation of corporate authors may be taken as an indication of
the commercial potential of the science or technology. The list
focuses, in alternate months, on areas in the physical and the
biological sciences. The percentage of papers that have a corporate
affiliation is given along with the name of the corporation that has
the most highly cited papers in the front.