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With
Output and Impact Rising, China's Science Surge Rolls
On
by Christopher King
A survey of research from the People’s Republic of China
indicates that the nation has dramatically increased its production
of scientific papers in recent years, with its 2007 output now
surpassing all other nations except the United States. The citation
impact of China-based research is also rising steadily.
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The
U.K.'s Citation Elite, 2003-07
by Christopher King
According to a survey of high-impact United Kingdom research based
on highly cited papers published between 2003 and 2007, the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge achieved the highest overall
citation totals, while the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and
European Bioinformatics Institute were tops in cites-per-paper
scores.
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The
Hottest Research of 2006-07
by Christopher King
In its annual roundup of the hottest of recent research, the
Science Watch® Newsletter presents the
authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers during 2007,
along with the papers published in 2007 that were most cited by
year’s end. Notable on the list of authors is Osaka
University’s Shizuo Akira, who has now achieved the
“hot author” distinction for four consecutive
years.
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Sequencing
Biology’s Hottest, 2002-06
by Christopher King
A survey of high-impact papers published in molecular biology &
genetics between 2002 and 2006 determines that the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute collected the highest number of citations, while the
University of California, Santa Cruz, was highest in impact.
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