For this article, Jennifer Fisher Wilson interviewed Allan M. Weissman, a physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Md.; Tony Hunter, professor of molecular and cell biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.; and Claudio A. P. Joaziero, investigator at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, Calif. 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.

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