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Fast Moving Fronts
September 2005
  Read comments by: 

David Barford and Richard Marais;
Mol. Bio. & Gen.
George V. Eleftheriades;
Com. Sci.
Tom R. Horton;
Env. & Eco.

Jon Jureidini;
Psy./Psy.
Masaru Katoh;
Cli. Med.
Hitoshi Okamura;
Neu. & Beh.

Chien M. Wai;
Mat. Sci.
Liming Zhou;
Geo. 		•>Research Front Map from Computer Science on "Negative Refractive Index".
Emerging Research Fronts
August 2005
  Read comments by:

Henry Buchwald;
Cli. Med.
Larry Cahill;
Neu. & Beh.
Mike Gilchrist;
Mol. Bio. & Gen.

Marion Koopmans;
Agr. Sci.
Adnan S๖zen;
Eng. 		•>Research Front Map from the Multidisciplinary field for "Hedgehog Pathway Activation."
View the July/August 2005 Science Watchฎ article: "U.S. Slide in World Share Continues as European Union, Asia Pacific Advance"
Hottest Journals of the Millennium (so far).
Twenty Years of Citation Superstars!
The Interviews - interviews of top scientists and researchers from past Science Watch issues.

Find out about the editorial sections of Essential Science Indicators.

he ESI Special Topics Web site is designed to complement ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product in providing citation analyses and commentary for selected scientific research areas that have experienced notable recent advances or are of special current interest. Each topic is prefaced with a description of its relation to the main ISI Essential Science Indicators rankings and the methodology used to assemble the data from the ISI Essential Science Indicators database. A new topic is added monthly. The data presented for each topic include citation rankings for scientists, institutions, nations, and journals. Most special topics also feature interviews and essays by prominent scientists in the area.

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New Special Topic This Month: 
Melanoma

Featured Special Topics:

New interviews & features added in SEPTEMBER 2005:
Prof. Valerie Beral;
Breast Cancer 		Prof. Dr. Bert Brunekreef;
Air Pollution 		Dr. Francesco Marincola;
Melanoma
Dr. Keith Skubitz;
Uterine Fibroids

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ESI Special Topics also spotlights New Hot Papers, Fast Breaking Papers (both have some comments/mini-interviews and are updated bi-monthly), Emerging Research Fronts, and Fast Moving Fronts, all of which deal with current and emerging trends in specialized areas of research. Methodologies for the various entities and commentary on data interpretation are also included.
New Hot Papers - September 2005
    Comments & Interviews from the author(s) of the papers:
Markus Bartenstein;
Physics 		Sally S. Dickerson & Margaret E. Kemeny;
Psychology/
Psychiatry 		Bernard Dujon;
Multidisciplinary
Takashi Fujita;
Immunology 		David A. Hafler;
Clinical Medicine		 Kei Hirose;
Geosciences
Panganamala R. Kumar;
Computer Science		 David MacMillan;
Chemistry 		Bernard Moss and Himani Bisht;
Microbiology
George M. Pharr;
Materials Science		 Philip A. Sharp & Carl D. Novina;
Molecular Biology & Genetics 		Claudiu Supuran;
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Paul Trayhurn;
Agricultural Sciences

Archive of past comments for New Hot Papers.
Archive also contains listings of late entries received after publication.

Fast Breaking Papers - August 2005
   Comments & Interviews from the author(s) of the papers:
Joan S. Ash;
Social Sciences, general 		Peter I. Dalko;
Chemistry		 Bernard Dujon;
Multidisciplinary
Thomas Elmqvist;
Environment/
Ecology		 Nils Lid Hjort & Gerda Claeskens;
Mathematics 		Takaaki Kajita;
Physics
Mark P. Mattson;
Neuroscience & Behavior		 Ronald L. Prior;
Agricultural Sciences		 Julian I. Schroeder;
Plant & Animal Science
Philip A. Sharp & Carl D. Novina;
Molecular Biology & Genetics 		Richard H. Weisler;
Psychiatry/
Psychology		 Mathias Wind & Wolf D. Lehmann;
Engineering

Archive of past comments for Fast Breaking Papers.
Archive also contains listings of late entries received after publication.

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