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An interview with:
Dr. Ramesh Narayan
August
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In this
interview, Special Topics correspondent Gary Taubes
talks with Ramesh Narayan about his highly cited work
in black holes research. According to our analysis of
this field over the past decade, Dr. Narayan is the
most-cited scientist, with 28 papers cited a total of
1,695 times, and four papers placing on the top 20
list. In the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product, Dr. Narayan has 91 papers cited a total
of 3,663 times to date in the field of Space Science.
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An interview with:
Dr. Steve Giddings
July
2004 |
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In this
Special Topics interview, Dr. Steve Giddings of the
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) talks
about his highly cited work in black holes research.
Dr. Giddings is the lead author of the top-ranked
paper published in the past two years on this topic,
"High energy colliders as black hole factories:
The end of short distance physics" (Physical
Review D 6505: 6010, 2002), which has been cited a
total of 74 times. He is also a coauthor on the paper
ranked at #12 on this same list, "Classical black
hole production in high-energy colliders" (Physical
Review D 6604: 4011, 2002), with 12 total cites.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Mirjam Cvetic
June
2004 |
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In
the Special Topic on Black Holes research over the
past decade, Dr. Mirjam Cvetic’s work ranks at #9,
with 36 papers cited 845 times. According to the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product, Dr. Cvetic has 126 papers cited a total
of 2,331 times to date to her credit in the field of
Physics. Dr. Cvetic is a Professor of High Energy
Theoretical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the interview below, she talks about her highly
cited work on black holes.
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An interview with:
Raffaella
Schneider
April
2004 |
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In this
interview, Dr. Raffaella Schneider discusses her work
on the paper "First stars, very massive black
holes, and metals" (Astrophysical Journal
571: 30-9, 2002). According to our Special Topics
analysis on black holes research, this paper is ranked
at #3 among papers published on black holes in the
past two years, with 44 citations. Dr. Schneider is a
postdoc in the cosmology group at the Arcetri
Astrophysical Observatory in Firenze, Italy.
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An interview with:
Jonathan
L. Feng
April
2004 |
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According
to our Special Topics analysis on black holes,
Professor Jonathan L. Feng appears on our lists with
not one, but two of the most-cited papers published on
this topic in the past two years. His paper with A.D.
Shapere, "Black hole production by cosmic
rays" (Physical Review Letters 8802:1303, 2002),
is ranked at #3 with 52 citations. His paper with L.A.
Anchordoqui, H. Goldberg, and A.D. Shapere,
"Black holes from cosmic rays: probes of extra
dimensions and new limits on TEV-scale gravity,"
(Physical Review D 6512: 4027, 2002), is ranked at #9
with 35 citations. In the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product, Professor Feng has 61 papers cited 7,057
times to date in the field of Physics.
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An interview with:
Douglas
O. Richstone
April
2004 |
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In
our Special Topics analysis of Black Holes research
over the past decade, the scientist coming in at #7 is
Douglas O. Richstone, with 15 papers cited a total of
1,054 times, and three of those papers ranking in our
lists of the top papers in this field. In the larger
field of Space Science in the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product, Dr. Richstone’s citation record
includes 26 papers cited a total of 2,131 times to
date. Dr. Richstone is Professor and Chair of
Astronomy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
He discusses his highly cited work on black holes in
this interview.
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An interview with:
Andreas
Ringwald
March
2004 |
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According
to our listing of the top 20 papers published over the
past two years in black hole research, the #4 slot
belongs to the paper "Collider versus cosmic ray
sensitivity to black hole production," (Physics
Letters B 525:135-42, 2002), which has garnered 48
citations to date. In this interview, lead author
Andreas Ringwald discusses how the paper came about
and what role it has played in the field. Ringwald is
a member of the Theory Group at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
(DESY) in Hamburg, Germany.
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