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Nature 411, 519-520 (31 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35079195
Toronto's science jewel
Trisha Gura1
Abstract
A small Canadian institute is producing a disproportionate number of highly cited biology papers. Trisha Gura visited the Amgen Institute, to find out what its members are doing right.
Each spring, the newsletter Science Watch unveils a list that must have some scientists green with envy. Compiled by ISI, formerly the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, the list documents those researchers who have produced the most 'hot' papers over the preceding two years — those judged by a bespoke computer algorithm to be cited markedly more in the scientific literature than comparable papers.
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