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ScienceWatch.com from Thomson Reuters takes you behind the scenes of highly cited research in these interviews, essays, and rankings featuring researchers in a variety of fields. Author commentaries come from all areas of ScienceWatch.com. There are also interviews with authors featured within every Special Topic and corresponding Research Front Map. In addition, there are comments from authors who have papers featured in Emerging Research Fronts, Fast-Moving Fronts, New Hot Papers, Fast-Breaking Papers, Current Classics, and Top Topics. Search for an author by year, month, or alphabetically.

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J. Evan Sadler The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.September 2009
J. Evan Sadler; "...our paper is highly cited because it provides a useful and relatively simple and useful framework to organize..."
Fast Moving Fronts, September 2009
  June 2008
Masami Yokota Hirai & Kazuki Saito; "This paper reports on a general strategy for decoding the gene function of Arabidopsis..."
Fast Breaking Papers, June 2008.
Sampson This is a Podcast InterviewMay 2008
Robert Sampson, talks about his interest in criminology and urban sociology and the linkage of urban neighborhoods with violence. Read his Fast Breaking Paper comment. View an article from PNAS.
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Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa May 2009
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa; "My work in the team was to provide all the deforestation analysis based on satellite analysis that went into the model..."
Featured Scientist Interview
M. Santosh The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.August 2008
M. Santosh; "This paper presents the discovery of a special type of high-grade metamorphic rocks from..."
Fast Breaking Paper, August 2008
Satoh February 2009
Nori Satoh; "The publication of our paper had an impact among ordinary people, especially children, as amphioxus is highly..."
Fast Breaking Paper, February 2009
Van Savage February 2008
Van Savage; "I have always enjoyed trying to solve problems that are simply stated yet deceptively difficult. This process is especially..."
Featured Paper Interview, February 2008
 Lawrence R. Schaeffer July 2009
Lawrence R. Schaeffer; "It was the first paper that looked at the effects of genome wide selection on dairy cattle bull progeny testing,..."
Fast Moving Fronts, July 2009
Schaeffer September 2008
Stephen W. Schaeffer; "The Richards et al. (2005) article is highly cited because of the value of the Drosophila pseudoobscura..."
Fast Moving Front, September 2008
  The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.November 2009
Steven Phillips, Rob Anderson, & Rob Schapire; "Our paper introduced a mathematically rigorous method (Maxent) for modeling..."
Special Topic of Climate Change
  The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.July 2009
Timothy M. Lenton & Hans Joachim Schellnhuber; "Our paper captures the Zeitgeist of a growing group of climate scientists..."
New Hot Papers, July 2009
Scheuhammer The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.July 2008
Anton M. Scheuhammer; "The paper offers a succinct review of the current state of science regarding the health effects..."
New Hot Paper, July 2008
Yukihisa Shimada January 2010
Yukihisa Shimada; "As part of an international research effort, the AtGenExpress consortium was organized to make an..."
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  July 2008
Kenneth Livak & Thomas Schmittgen; "Regular PCR amplifies the RNA or DNA in a sample, and real-time PCR amplifies it and quantifies it..."
Featured Paper Interview, July 2008
Patrik Schmuki The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.November 2009
Patrik Schmuki; "After a more or less coincidental finding we followed up on the electrochemical formation of self-organized TiO2..."
New Hot Papers, November 2009
Donald Schneider July 2009
Donald Schneider; "The SDSS's great steps forward were obtaining digital, multicolor images of a large area of the sky to brightness..."
Science Watch® Newsletter Interview
Santiago Schnell July 2009
Santiago Schnell; "In our paper we unravel a new debate in the field of systems biology: What is the appropriate modeling formulation..."
Fast Moving Fronts, July 2009
Hans R. Schöler. Photo: MPI Muenster/Sarah Eick The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.November 2009
Hans R. Schöler; "Tremendous debate has arisen in both the scientific community and the general public over the past decade..."
New Hot Papers, November 2009
Dirk Schübeler This is a Podcast InterviewAugust 2009
Dirk Schübeler; "Dirk Schübeler, a Senior Group Leader in Epigenetics at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research..."
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Ulrich S. Schubert January 2010
Ulrich S. Schubert; "The paper describes the usage of an inkjet printer for a broad field of applications. For example, the manufacturing of multicolor polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED), polymer electronics, three-dimensional printing, and also controlled drug release. These fields that had been mentioned.."
Fast Moving Front, January 2010
  January 2009
Ulrich S. Schubert; "The article summarizes and critically discusses the use of click chemistry in macromolecular science..."
New Hot Paper, January 2009
  January 2009
Oded Hod, Gustavo Scuseria, & Veronica Barone; "Our paper presents the first calculation, based on screened-hybrid density functional..."
Special Topic of Graphene
Ole Seehausen The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.March 2010
Ole Seehausen; "Speciation research is currently one of the most active fields in evolutionary and ecological research. The cichlid fish..."
Fast Moving Front, March 2010
  The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.June 2008
Dominic Walsh & Dennis J. Selkoe; "...Alzheimer's Disease involves compromise of synaptic function...."
Emerging Research Fronts, June 2008.
Serreze June 2008
Mark C. Serreze; "The Arctic's floating sea ice cover is quickly shrinking. While this decline is a clear indicator of climate change..."
Fast Breaking Papers, June 2008.
Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.December 2009
Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi; "This paper describes the current state-of-the-art in the field of electrochemical capacitors (ECs)..."
Fast Breaking Papers, December 2009
Shah July 2008
Dr. Keerti Shah; "...with cancer of the uterine cervix, HPV is responsible for nearly 100% of the cancers, and this is..."
Special Topic of Human Papillomavirus, July 2008
Shai July 2008
Yechiel Shai; "The increasing rate of resistant bacteria to conventional antibiotics is a worldwide threat. This article..."
New Hot Paper, July 2008
Shchekin May 2008
Oleg B. Shchekin; "At present, QD lasers are starting to become commercialized for short-haul fiber-optic communications..."
Fast Moving Fronts, May 2008.
Sheehan May 2008
David Sheehan; "The issue was how to capture all these subtle nuances from one language to the next; not..."
Featured Paper Interview, May 2008.
Sheen October 2008
Jen Sheen; "This paper provides the first conclusive genetic and biochemical evidence that a specific Arabidopsis hexokinase (HXK1)..."
Emerging Research Front, October 2008
October 2009
Ellen Sheehy; "Our paper represents an important contribution to the field of organ donation in that it provided a credible estimate of the..."
Emerging Research Fronts, October 2009
Jay Shendure January 2010
Jay Shendure; "The paper describes the synthesis of several methodologies and their extension to a new direction. Specifically..."
Fast Moving Front, January 2010
William Shieh September 2009
William Shieh; "For the first time in "open access" literature, this paper introduced a novel modulation format which combines two..."
Fast Moving Fronts, September 2009
Yukihisa Shimada January 2010
Yukihisa Shimada; "As part of an international research effort, the AtGenExpress consortium was organized to make an important..."
New Hot Paper, January 2009
August 2008
Takashi Shinohara; "This is a complete byproduct of our research on gene targeting experiments using..."
Emerging Research Front, August 2008
Shlomchik March 2008
Mark J. Shlomchik; "In general terms, this research helped us to understand why anti-nuclear antibodies are made in lupus..."
New Hot Paper, March 2008.
Shoelson August 2008
Steven Shoelson; "Obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. Our studies identified a molecular connection..."
Emerging Research Front, August 2008
David Sholl February 2010
David Sholl; "Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have generated a great deal of excitement because of the diverse range of..."
Fast Breaking Papers, February 2010
  March 2009
Tao Han, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Kai Wang, & Zongguo Si; "The paper proposed a unique and clean signal to directly test a neutrino mass..."
Fast Moving Front, March 2009
Dr. Stephen Silberstein February 2008
Stephen Silbersten; "...we saw that many people believed that migraine and epilepsy were similar in some ways..."
Migraine & Other Vascular Headaches.
  The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.July 2008
David Lacey & Scott Simonet; "This paper was an invited review article that summarized, circa 2003, what was..."
Fast Moving Front, July 2008
  August 2008
Jeff Dyer & Harbir Singh; "The main contribution of the "relational view" paper was that it outlined a theory for considering dyads..."
Featured Paper Interview, August 2008
Skaife November 2008
Hollis A. Skaife; "Our paper explains the internal control reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002..."
New Hot Paper, November 2008
Michael Skinner March 2009
Michael Skinner; "My research focuses on exploring the manner in which different cell types in a tissue interact and communicate to..."
Special Topic of Epigenetics
Smith April 2009
David M. Smith; "The new things we discovered about terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) were 1) the extremely high energies to which..."
Emerging Research Front, April 2009
Murphy February 2008
Michael P. Murphy & Robin A. J. Smith; "This work grew out of a multidisciplinary collaboration between a biochemist interested in..."
Fast Breaking Papers, February 2008.
Kenneth Söderhäll March 2010
Kenneth Söderhäll; "This paper is a review summarizing the research on one important innate immune process in invertebrates..."
Fast Moving Front, March 2010
Susan Solomon The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.March 2010
Susan Solomon; "The paper showed that the climate changes that take place due to human-caused changes in carbon dioxide..."
New Hot Paper, March 2010
  May 2008
Tracy T. Batchelor, Gregory A. Sorensen, & Rakesh K. Jain; "This paper—by combining cutting-edge imaging..."
New Hot Papers, May 2008.
 Ana Soto September 2009
Ana Soto; "We developed an assay called E-SCREEN, which we described in Environmental Health Perspectives in 1991..."
Special Topic of Bisphenol A
  January 2008
Jairton Dupont & John Spencer; "We demonstrated in this study that the majority of the pigs in swine herds in the United States were infected by..."
Featured Scientist Interview (originally featured in in-cites.com, Jan. 2008)
Spergel February 2008
David N. Spergel; "The paper reports new results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and synthesizes the WMAP results..."
Fast Breaking Papers, February 2008.
Spiegelhalter February 2009
David Spiegelhalter; "Bayesian methods for data analysis allow great flexibility for handling complex problems and including multiple..."
Featured Paper Interview
Paul Spudich October 2009
Paul Spudich & Jon B. Fletcher; "Our paper has been highly cited because we published some unique observations of earthquake-induced..."
Emerging Research Fronts, October 2009
Sohn February 2009
Keehoon Sohn & Jonathan D. G. Jones; "most significant and new observation in the paper is that oomycete effectors can be delivered..."
Fast Breaking Paper, February 2009
Ramanathan Sowdhamini March 2009
Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Ganesan Pugalenthi, Ke Tang & Govindaraju Archunan; "Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New Hot Paper, March 2009
Stackelberg July 2008
Paul E. Stackelberg; "Our paper was one of the first to demonstrate that extensively used chemicals such as prescription..."
Fast Moving Front, July 2008
Richard Stadler The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work.October 2009
Richard Stadler; "Acrylamide was first discovered in food in April 2002 by the Swedish National Food Authority that reported..."
Featured Paper Interview
November 2008
Lawrence Steinman; "We show that a guardian protein is attacked and that this attenuates the healing of an organ like the brain..."
New Hot Paper, November 2008
August 2008
Nils Chr. Stenseth; "We demonstrate that climate fluctuations affect the dynamics of populations through how the ways in..."
Emerging Research Front, August 2008
June 2008
Nils Chr. Stenseth; "The paper describes a new discovery; in addition, the paper also provides a new methodology..."
Fast Breaking Papers, June 2008.
Stevo Stevic February 2010
Stevo Stevic; In this Fast Breaking Paper commentary, Stevo Stevic talks about his 2009 J MATH ANAL APPL paper..."
Fast Breaking Papers, February 2010
Stevic April 2009
Stevo Stevic; "Working on Bloch-type spaces I have realized that sometimes it is useful to use the norm on the space by taking..."
Fast Breaking Paper, April 2009
Craig Stockwell July 2008
The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work. Craig Stockwell, Andrew Hendry & Michael Kinnison; "Our work provides a synthesis of emerging..."
New Hot Paper, July 2008
  January 2009
Russell Taylor & Dan Stoianovici; "This survey paper provides a broad overview of medical robot systems used in surgery. As such, it provided..."
Fast Moving Front, January 2009
Stokols December 2008
Daniel Stokols, Shalini Misra, Richard Moser, Kara Hall & Brandie Taylor; "Our article provides an overview of important personal and situational...."
Emerging Research Front, December 2008
John D. Storey November 2009
John D. Storey; "In this Fast Moving Front commentary, John D. Storey talks with ScienceWatch.com about his 2005..."
Fast Moving Fronts, November 2009
Maureen Storey November 2009
Maureen Storey; "...our paper carefully examined several theories about high-fructose corn syrup, a common sweetener in the food..."
Fast Moving Fronts, November 2009
Michael Strauss February 2010
Michael Strauss; "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has produced a map of the Universe, a census of the heavens, that can be used in..."
Fast Breaking Papers, February 2010
  December 2008
Duncan Watts & Steve Strogatz; "...the behavior of complex interconnected systems cannot be understood without also understanding the..."
Featured Paper Interview
October 2009
Andrew W. Strong, Igor V. Moskalenko & Olaf Reimer; "The complex nature of current scientific goals, such as, e.g., the detection of a weak dark matter..."
Emerging Research Fronts, October 2009
  October 2008
Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King, & Elizabeth Stuart; "Easy-to-use matching methods have been recognized as offering one..."
Fast Breaking Paper, October 2008
 
July 2009

Kosuke Imai, Gary King, & Elizabeth Stuart; "The results in our article have the potential to increase the effectiveness of causal inference..."
New Hot Papers, July 2009
Stucky November 2008
Galen Stucky; "...mesoporous materials, the work of Dr. Galen Stucky from the University of California, Santa Barbara, ranked at #2..."
Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials
Su August 2008
Bao-Lian Su; "This paper provided a comprehensive study on the synthesis mechanism of highly ordered mesoporous..."
Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials
  September 2009
Michael Corballis & Thomas Suddendorf; "The idea is that episodic memory provides information for the construction of future plans..."
New Hot Papers, September 2009
  March 2009
Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Ganesan Pugalenthi, Ke Tang & Govindaraju Archunan; "Our work describes a new methodology, named "regularized least squares classifier" (RLSC)..."
New Hot Paper, March 2009
John Sumpter February 2010
John Sumpter; "we have moved on from concerns about killing wildlife with mass-produced chemicals such as oils and pesticides...."
Special Topic of Bisphenol A (BPA)
Supuran March 2009
The author(s) of this interview/comment have included images of their work. Claudiu T. Supuran; "This is a review article, presenting the state of the art in the field of CA inhibitors and activators, as well as their applications..."
New Hot Paper, March 2009

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