For this article, Steve Bunk interviewed Claire M. Fraser, president, the Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Md. Data from the Web of Science (ISI, Philadelphia) show that Hot Papers are cited 50 to 100 times more often than the average paper of the same type and age.
K.E. Nelson, R.A. Clayton, S.R. Gill, M.L. Gwinn, R.J. Dodson, D.H. Haft, E.K. Hickey, J.D. Peterson, W.C. Nelson, K.A. Ketchum, L. McDonald, T.R. Utterback, J.A. Malek, K.D. Linher, M.M. Garrett, A.M. Stewart, M.D. Cotton, M.S. Pratt, C.A. Phillips, D. Richardson, J. Heidelberg, G.G. Sutton, R.D. Fleischmann, J.A. Eisen, O. White, S.L. Salzberg, H.O. Smith, J.C. Venter, C.M. Fraser, "Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima," Nature, 399:323-9, May 27,1999. (Cited in 196 papers)



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This 1999 paper from the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Md., greatly strengthens...

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