FEATURES:
An interview with:
Dr. William Dietz
April
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Dr. William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
talks about his highly cited work in obesity research. The recent Special Topics analysis of obesity research in the past decade ranks Dr. Dietz among the top 25 researchers in this specialized area, with 47 papers cited a total of 1,532 times. Dr. Dietz’s most-cited paper, "Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents—a follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1992 to 1935,"
(New England Journal of Medicine 327 [19]: 1350-5, 5 November 1992), was cited 302 times at the time of the analysis, and, according to the
ISI
Essential
Science Indicators
Web product, currently has 348 citations.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Claude Bouchard
March
2002 |
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In
the Special Topics analysis of obesity research in the
past decade, Dr. Claude Bouchard ranks at #13
among the 25 most-cited researchers in this
specialized field, with 123 papers cited a total of
2,077 times at the time of the analysis. In addition,
Dr. Bouchard’s work is well represented in the ISI
Essential
Science Indicators Web
product, with 204 papers cited a total of 3,418 times
to date in Clinical Medicine; 119 cited a total of
2,033 times in Biology & Biochemistry; and 13
papers cited a total of 174 times in Agricultural
Sciences.
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An interview with:
Dr.
Jeffrey Flier
February
2002 |
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Dr.
Jeffrey Flier of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard University about his research in the specialized field of obesity. In our Special Topics analysis of this field, Dr. Flier has 29 pertinent papers that were cited a total of 1,654 times. Dr. Flier is the co-author of the paper ranked at #22 in our list of top papers in Obesity research from the past decade, "Adipogenesis and obesity—rounding out the big picture"
(Cell 87 [3]: 377-89, 1 November 1996), which has been cited 305 times.
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