RE: announcement:1 in 8 of Thomson Scientific's 2005 Top 40 "Hottest papers" from three Oxford Journals titles

["MUKHERJEE, Mithu" <mithu.mukherjee@oxfordjournals.org>]

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1 in 8 of Thomson Scientific's 2005 Top 40 "Hottest papers" from three
Oxford Journals titles

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce that five papers from 
three of its titles have been included in Thomson Scientific's 
recently published Top 40 "Red-Hot Research Papers" for 2005. Of 
these a paper from Bioinformatics is the fifth most highly cited 
research article of the year, while Nucleic Acids Research has 
attained fifth place overall in terms of numbers of papers in the 
"Red-hot" list. A further article from the Journal of the 
National Cancer Institute was also included.

Bioinformatics, the leading journal in its field, publishes new 
developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. 
Its January 2005 issue included the article by Barrett, Fry, 
Maller and Daly, Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and 
haplotype maps:
<http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/263? 
maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Haploview&searchid=1&F 
IRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT>
which was recorded by Thomson Scientific as receiving a total of 
90 citations in 2005. The paper was the fifth most cited overall 
in 2005.

With three articles in the top 40, Nucleic Acids Research, (NAR) 
was ranked as the "hottest" single-discipline journal in the 
world and the fifth "hottest" journal overall. NAR is a fully 
Open Access journal, providing rapid publication of leading edge 
research into the nucleic acids. In January 2005 it became the 
first title from Oxford Journals, and indeed the first journal of 
its size and prestige, to adopt a fully open access model.

For several years, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute 
has been ranked as the most-cited original-research cancer 
journal by Thomson Scientific in its annual Journal Citation 
Reports. The article Clinical and Biological Features Associated 
With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Gene Mutations in Lung 
Cancers 
<http://jncicancerspectrum.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jnci; 
97/5/339> was cited a total of 43 times, ranking it at 33rd in 
Thomson Scientific's review. JNCI has also been named as the only 
specialist journal in the top ten journals in clinical medicine, 
according to ScienceWatch's citation analysis of the hottest 
journals of the millennium 
<http://www.sciencewatch.com/jan-feb2005/sw_jan-feb2005_page1.htm>.

'Thomson Scientific's "red-hot research papers" summarise areas 
that have been of significant interest to the research community 
over the last year," commented Martin Richardson, Managing 
Director, Oxford Journals.

He continued, 'the impressive results for these Oxford Journals 
titles emphasises once again the high quality of our collection, 
and our continued excellence in providing researchers with the 
cutting edge peer reviewed, highly cited content that they want.'

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List of papers:

Bioinformatics
Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and
haplotype maps
J. C. Barrett,  B. Fry, J. Maller and M. J. Daly

JNCI
Clinical and Biological Features Associated With Epidermal Growth Factor
Receptor Gene Mutations in Lung Cancers
Hisayuki Shigematsu, Li Lin, Takao Takahashi, Masaharu Nomura, Makoto
Suzuki, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Kwun M. Fong, Huei Lee, Shinichi Toyooka,
Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Takehiko Fujisawa, Ziding Feng, Jack A. Roth, Joachim
Herz, John D. Minna, and Adi F. Gazdar

NAR
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)
Amos Bairoch, Rolf Apweiler, Cathy H. Wu, Winona C. Barker, Brigitte
Boeckmann, Serenella Ferro, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Hongzhan Huang, Rodrigo
Lopez, Michele Magrane, Maria J. Martin, Darren A. Natale, Claire
O'Donovan, Nicole Redaschi, and Lai-Su L. Yeh

CDD: a Conserved Domain Database for protein classification
Aron Marchler-Bauer, John B. Anderson, Praveen F. Cherukuri, Carol
DeWeese-Scott, Lewis Y. Geer, Marc Gwadz, Siqian He, David I. Hurwitz,
John D. Jackson, Zhaoxi Ke, Christopher J. Lanczycki, Cynthia A.
Liebert, Chunlei Liu, Fu Lu, Gabriele H. Marchler, Mikhail Mullokandov,
Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Vahan Simonyan, James S. Song, Paul A. Thiessen,
Roxanne A. Yamashita, Jodie J. Yin, Dachuan Zhang, and Stephen H. Bryant

NCBI Reference Sequence (RefSeq): a curated non-redundant sequence
database of genomes, transcripts and proteins
Kim D. Pruitt, Tatiana Tatusova, and Donna R. Maglott

For further information please contact:
Mithu Mukherjee <mailto:mithu.mukherjee@oxfordjournals.org>
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals

+44(0)1865 354471

Notes for Editors

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A full list of Thomson Scientific's top 40 can be viewed here
<http://oxfordjournals.org/news/red-hot%20papers%20list.pdf>

Read Thomson Scientific's official press release
<http://scientific.thomson.com/press/2006/8315590/>

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