Thomson Reuters announced today the results of its annual roundup of the “hottest” researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers cited in 2010.
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Thomson Reuters announced today the results of its annual roundup of the “hottest” researchers and research papers. In its March/April issue of Science Watch, an open Web resource for science metrics and analysis, Thomson Reuters identified the top 13 authors who fielded the highest numbers of Hot Papers cited in 2010.
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Eric S. Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was 2010’s hottest researcher, contributing to 10 Hot Papers as gauged by citations during the year. This is Lander’s seventh appearance on the Hottest Researchers list. His papers examine general treatments of genetic mapping and human disease, including lung cancer.
This year, seven of the hottest researchers published papers in the genetics field. Three researchers from deCODE genetics in Iceland made the list: Augustine Kong, Kári Stefánsson and Unnur Thorsteinsdottir. Their studies focus on genome-wide analyses of schizophrenia, obesity, diabetes, and other disorders.
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This year’s most-cited paper, “Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults,” first appeared in Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2010 and was cited 106 times through December.
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