For this article, Nadia S. Halim interviewed Charles Kurland, professor of molecular biology at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 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. S.G.E. Andersson, A. Zomorodipour, J.O. Andersson, T. Sicheritz-Ponten, U.C.M. Alsmark, R.M. Podowski, A.K. Naslund, A-S. Eriksson, H.H. Winkler, and C.G. Kurland, "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria," Nature, 396:133-40, Nov. 12, 1998. (Cited in more than 185 papers since publication) |
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