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02/24/2003 Archived Entry: "HOT PAPERS in Science ..."

According to SCi-BYTES, these are some of the hottest papers in 2003 (AS OF 2/24/2003):

Agricultural Sciences: "Bioavailability of pure isoflavones in healthy humans and analysis of commercial soy isoflavone supplements," by Kenneth D.R. Setchell and 8 others, Journal of Nutrition, 131:1362S-75S, 4 April 2001. (29 citations since 9/2001)

Chemistry: "Nanobelts of semiconducting oxides," by Zheng Wei Pan, Zu Rong Dai, and Zhong Lin Wang, Science, 291(5510): 1947-9, 9 March 2001. (79 citations since 7/2001)

Psychiatry/Psychology: "Does fast dissociation from the dopamine D2 receptor explain the action of atypical antipsychotics?: A new hypothesis," by Shitij Kapur and Philip Seeman, American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(3): 360-9, March 2001. (46 citations since 9/2001)

Biology: "A toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA," by Hiroaki Hemmi and 10 others, Nature, 408(6813): 740-5, 7 December 2000. (343 citations since 11/2001)

Medicine: "Comparison of upper gastrointestinal toxicity of rofecoxib and naproxen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis," by Claire Bombardier and 11 others, for the VIGOR study group, New England Journal of Medicine, 343(21): 1520-8, 23 November 2000. (302 citations since 11/2001)

Physics: "Boron isotope effect in superconducting MgB2," by S.L. Bud'ko and 5 others, Physical Review Letters, 86(9): 1877-80, 26 February 2001. (269 citations since 3/2001)

What do we learn from all of this? 1. Its fun to look at the hottest paper listings, 2. despite the scientific method and training ... empirical observations never use the same frame of reference ... (why the wild fluctuation in the start dates of citation analyses?) 3. If you wrote about 'Nanobelt Boron receptors in antipsychotic superconducting bacterial DNA' you might have everyone's attention. Well ... maybe ....