New York, NY (January 24, 2002)
— Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., and Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York City, together have nine researchers who are among the world's most often-cited authors, according to a new World Wide Web service, ISIHighlyCited.com, a unit of Thomson Corp.
The free, online service, which brings together the publication and career records of preeminent researchers worldwide, culled the Cornell names from Thomson's authoritative ISI Citation Database.
The researchers named as being among the most often cited are, from Cornell University:
- Jon Clardy, the H. White Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and
- Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
And, from Weill Cornell Medical College:
- Ronald Crystal, the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Genetic Medicine, and Director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine;
- Daniel Knowles, the David D. Thompson Professor and Chairman in the Department of Pathology;
- John Moore, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology;
- M. Flint Beal, the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience;
- Richard Devereux, Professor of Medicine;
- Tong Joh, Professor of Neuroscience; and
- John Laragh, Professor of Medicine.
Also named was the late Donald J. Reis, the George C. Cotzias Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and director of the Division of Neurobiology at Weill Cornell.
ISIHighlyCited.com currently covers eight science categories: biology and biochemistry, chemistry, engineering, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience, and physics. In coming months, the online service will expand to 21 scientific fields.
About 19 million articles or source records were identified and evaluated to determine the most highly cited researchers in their respective disciplines. The researchers selected for inclusion on the web site account for less than one half of one percent of the almost five-million researchers in the ISI Citation Database from 1981 to 1999.
The related World Wide Web sites provide additional information on this news release. Some of the data are not from the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over the Web sites' content or availability.
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