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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	June 2008 Karl F. MacDorman & Hiroshi Ishiguro; "This target article with commentaries and rebuttal is seminal in the establishment of android science as a field of inquiry..." Fast Breaking Papers, June 2008.
	May 2008 David P. MacKinnon; "The paper investigates an important method in many fields, the extent to which a variable transmits or mediates..." Fast Moving Fronts, May 2008.
	March 2008 Richard B. Mailman; " in pharmacology and toxicology (and all the disciplines that use drugs as tools), the terms agonist, antagonist..." New Hot Paper, March 2008.
	April 2008 Richard A. Manderville; "Our paper represents a synthesis of knowledge and is based on the publications of many researchers in the field..." Fast Breaking Papers, April 2008
	April 2008 Alberto Mantovani; "This paper is at the intersection of two fields of research which have become popular. On the one hand, it summarizes..." Emerging Research Fronts, April 2008.
	February 2008 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski; "We can now teach undergraduate students how to make almost-perfect block copolymers on a bench in two hours..." Featured ScienceWatch.com Interview
	June 2008 Michael C. McAlpine & James R. Heath; "The paper describes a reliable and scalable method for constructing highly ordered single-crystal..." Fast Breaking Papers, June 2008.
	May 2008 Jill Mesirov & Eric Lander; "Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) derives its power by considering sets of genes that correspond to a biological..." Fast Moving Fronts, May 2008.
	July 2008 Tom Millar; "The underlying theme that interests me is the use of chemistry of molecules as probes of the physical conditions in interstellar space..." Special Topic of Astrochemistry
	March 2008 Daniel Miracle; "This paper describes a structure with a strange co-existence of atomic order and disorder. This combination challenges expectations..." New Hot Paper, March 2008.
	April 2008 Norio Miura; "I believe that our review article provided all the necessary information for all kinds of research conducted within this area..." Fast Breaking Papers, April 2008.
	July 2008 Jesper Møller; "My main focus of research is in mathematical statistics and applied probability, particularly in relation to spatial data sets..." Featured Scientist Interview, July 2008
	July 2008 Chung-Yuan Mou; "To me, mesoporous silica materials are an ideal playground for materials synthesis with wide possibilities of structure..." Special Topic of Mesoporous Materials
	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.
	March 2008 Robin M. Murray; "I started work in the 1970s. At that time some of the biological theories, or explanations, for schizophrenia were..." Special Topic of Schizophrenia