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behind the scenes of highly cited research in these interviews
and first-person essays featuring authors of the highly cited
papers in Conducting Polymers, as well
as the top-cited scientists in this area. More interviews and
essays are available in the other Special
Topics areas, as well as in in cites
and Science Watch
which are the other editorial components of ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
from ISI.
In addition, the citation statistics for these and other
researchers are available through ISI Essential Science
Indicators data.
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An interview with:
Dr. Jean-Luc Brédas
April
2002
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Dr. Jean-Luc Brédas, named one of the top five researchers in conducting polymers by a Special Topics analysis in 2000 talks about his highly cited work. The results of the analysis show that, over the period 1991-2000, Dr. Brédas has 102 papers in the conducting polymers area with a total of 1,919 citations to his credit.
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An interview with:
Professor Françis Garnier
December
2001
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In
this Special Topics interview, Professor Françis
Garnier discusses his long career in researching
conducting polymers. Prof. Garnier is the lead author
of the paper, "All-polymer field-effect
transistor realized by printing techniques," (Science
265[5179]: 1684-6, 16 September 1994). When Special
Topics performed a survey of research in conducting
polymers, this paper was cited a total of 220 times,
placing it among the top 20 papers in its field.
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An interview with:
Prof.
Richard Friend
September
2001
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Prof. Richard
Friend is the top-cited scientist in the specialized field of conducting polymers research for the 1991-2000 decade. According to a Special Topics analysis of the decade in question, Prof. Friend has written 184 papers on conducting polymers, which have been cited a total of 5,371 times. A search of the current ESI database shows that Prof. Friend has an impressive volume of papers in the fields of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Physics, as well as in the Multidisciplinary category.
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An interview with:
Dr.
David Braun
August
2001
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In this interview, Dr. David Braun of California Polytechnic State University discusses the evolution of research in semiconducting polymers and his role in it. In our analysis of high-impact papers dealing with conducting polymers, the paper Dr. Braun wrote with fellow researcher Dr. Alan Heeger of the University of California, Santa Barbara, "Visible-light emission from semiconducting polymer diodes,"
(Appl. Phys. L., 58[18]: 1982-4, 6 May 1991), was cited 879 times, making it the most-cited paper of the past decade in this
field.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Alan Heeger
July
2001
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In
this interview with ESI correspondent Gary
Taubes, Dr. Alan
Heeger of the University of California, Santa Barbara
discusses his work with semiconducting and metallic polymers,
and how this work has evolved over the years. In our analysis
of high-impact papers in the special topic of conducting
polymers, 146 of Dr. Heeger’s papers were cited a total of
5,881 times, making him the most-cited author in this field.
In addition to his work at UCSB, Dr. Heeger is the chief
scientist at the UNIAX Corporation and also won the 2000 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry.
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