Every two months, Essential Science Indicators lists a new crop of what it calls hot papers in science. Hot papers are selected by virtue of being cited among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) in a current bimonthly period. Papers are selected in each of 22 fields of science and must be published within the last two years. Because the hot papers are updated every two months, new papers are added with every update, and Special Topics tracks these new additions.

Here Special Topics highlights the most-cited of these new entries, one from each field, which are, in addition, not more than one year old. Since new hot papers are very recent scientific contributions that are receiving recognition during a current period, they may signal important new trends in research and serve as leading indicators of scientific advance.

Full information, including bimonthly citation histories, for these papers can be found in Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Scientific. Some New Hot Papers contain "Comments/Mini-interviews," from the author(s) of the paper!

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