Wolters Kluwer Expands Its Partnership with Chinese Publishing Industry

April 23, 2012

Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company focused on professionals, today welcomed a Chinese delegation with representatives of some of the most prominent institutions in Chinese publishing. CEO Nancy McKinstry met with Mr. Tan Yue, President of China Publishing Group Corporation (CPGC), Mr. Yu, President of Commercial Press, and other executives to discuss their shared vision and perspective on the growth of the Chinese market and customers’ needs.

Earlier this week, Wolters Kluwer signed a strategic alliance withCPGC at the London Book Fair. According to the agreement,Wolters Kluwer will bring a wealth of professional content to China, providing the Chinese professional community with world-class expert information and digital workflow solutions. CPGC can export and publish Chinese content through Wolters Kluwer’s established global network. The two parties will also expand cooperation in digital product sales.

CEO Nancy McKinstry addressed the delegation, “The growth and progress of the Chinese publishing industry is significant and something to be proud of. We are very pleased with our strong relationships that we have built with you and your colleagues over the past few years. The signing of the strategic alliance earlier this week with our team in the U.K. is an important step to strengthen our relationships and show that we have a mutual interest.”

Last September at the Beijing International Book Fair Wolters Kluwer signed a similar agreement with CPGC’s subsidiary, the Commercial Press, to present its publications to the international market through Wolters Kluwer. Meanwhile, the Commercial Press has started to introduce a series of Wolters Kluwer publications in translation to Chinese readers.

Also at the 2011 Beijing Book Fair, Nancy McKinstry was appointed by the Chinese State Council Information Office to become a member of the Foreign Consultant Committee. This influential Committee aims to promote the collaboration between local and global publishers to link China with the rest of the world.

About China Publishing Group Corporation
China Publishing Group Corporation is a national publishing and distribution institution, consisting of 96 wholly-owned and holding companies. It has more than 9,000 employees, total assets of 9.6 billion RMB, and annual sales revenue of 5.6 billion RMB. It produces over 10,000 types of books, electronic and audio-visual publications, and more than 50 newspapers and periodicals annually, holding a top position in the Chinese market. CPGC has 29 overseas branches with business in more than 130 counties.

Wrong OA policy may hurt UK’s publishing industry, says RSC chief

April 20, 2012

Throwing away one of Britain’s few GDP-positive industries by adopting an unsustainable Open Access model would “destroy the fabric of scientific communications”, Dr Robert Parker warned Cambridge MP Julian Huppert today.

The RSC Chief Executive said scientific publishers are approaching a critical juncture in relation to Open Access publishing, as both the government and the Research Councils UK (RCUK) currently review the model with a number of options being considered.

Dr Parker welcomed Dr Huppert to the RSC’s home at Thomas Graham House, Cambridge Science Park, at the launch of the society’s latest journal, Biomaterials Science, but cautioned the government and funding bodies not to undermine the effectiveness of scientific communications, an area in which UK organisations excel.

Dr Parker said: “The vast majority of RSC published research now comes from the international arena and our ability to effectively disseminate scientific knowledge through our publishing activities, which is a primary objective set out in our Royal Charter, must not be undermined by adopting an ill-thought out Open Access model.

“In addition, UK-based scientific publishers contribute an enormous amount to the UK economy and unlike some other industries, publishing has never had or needed specific support or subsidy or tax breaks from government so to damage that in any way now would be an act of madness.”

The RSC has responded to the RCUK’s Proposed Policy on Access to Research Outputs to help inform RCUK on enhancing scientific communications in a sustainable manner and looks forward to receiving its findings.

Dr Parker added: “There are two systems of ‘Open Access’ being discussed at the moment: Green Open Access, where a version of a paper is made available via a subject or institutional repository after an embargo period of between six and 24 months; and Gold Open Access, where funding is made available to support authors so their final article is made immediately available to all.

“The RSC supports sustainable Open Access and we believe the Gold method is a more sustainable model whereas the Green method is expensive to maintain, unsustainable and threatens to destabilise successful and effective scientific communications.

“Adopting the wrong model will destroy the fabric of scientific communications as we know it.”

Under the RSC’s ‘Open Science’ model, authors are currently offered the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their peer reviewed research paper openly available to all via the renowned RSC web platform.

Dr Huppert, one of only two MPs with science PhDs, said: “The Royal Society of Chemistry continues to go from strength to strength with a burgeoning publishing portfolio and a growing international presence, as exemplified by adding Biomaterials Science to its stable today.

“The RSC has a global reach, but its home is very much at the heart of Cambridge, with most of its 412 employees based at the Science Park meaning the RSC is easily the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences.

“In addition to its publishing duties, the RSC plays a central role in providing politicians and policy makers with evidence of the vital role chemistry will play to solve the big issues facing society: from energy, the environment and drug discovery to name just a few.”

Biomaterials Science is a collaborative venture between the RSC and the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Japan. It will be a multidisciplinary journal covering the fundamental science of biomaterials and their potential biomedical applications.

Norio Nakatsuji, Professor and Director at WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, has been appointed co-editor-in-chief of the new journal.

He said: “With the launch of the new journal we seek to present a global platform for fundamental research as well as varied applications of this rapidly expanding field created at the crossing point of biology, chemistry, and physics.”

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CABI re-index improves searching and retrieval for database products

April 20, 2012

Seamless searching and one-click retrieval are now realities for customers of life sciences publisher CABI’s world-leading abstracts databases, thanks to a major re-indexing project.

All 9 million+ records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardized indexing and searching across all database records from 1910 to the present day, enabling the retrieval of all records for an organism or concept using the current up-to-date name, despite the fact that over time it may have been indexed using older names or terminology.

CABI also added more than 415,000 new Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to older database records, which allows a direct click through to the original publisher record and often to the full text article.

“We are strongly committed to the continuous improvement of all of our products,” said Janet Halsall, Head of Publishing Operations, CABI. “This re-indexing has improved the database products by adding extra searchability and more links out to newly digitized source material. This includes DOIs for journal articles indexed by CABI back through time to 1910. Now customers can click through to the original journal article which has since been digitized by the publishe

Sage Publishes International Area Studies Review

April 20, 2012

SAGE now publishes International Area Studies Review (IASR). IASR is the quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Center for International Area Studies (CIAS) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, published in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

Edited by Professor Scott Gates (PRIO/NTNU), IASR stands alone as the area studies journal that is truly global in perspective. It publishes high quality theoretical, analytical and empirical works on international politics, economics, culture, sociology, law and the arts, contributing to the development of international area studies and helping close the gap between pure theory and practice.

Now in Volume 15, 2012, the journal publishes four times per year in March, June, September and December.

“International Area Studies Review is a perfect fit for SAGE, the interdisciplinary approach of the journal complements many existing SAGE titles across a range of disciplines.” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We are so pleased to be able to offer the journal a chance to flourish and grow alongside related journals and benefit from SAGE’s vast experience within these fields. It is also a great pleasure to be able to forge, with HUFS, a new institutional partnership, while extending our warm and long-standing relationship with PRIO.”

“Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has been always a leader in the field of international area studies,” said Park Chul, HUFS President. “For the past 15 years, International Area Studies Review has played a key role in developing the academic capabilities of area studies researchers and students. Having SAGE as the publisher and PRIO as a partner will contribute greatly to the fortunes of IASR, HUFS and the field of area studies research, and I warmly welcome these new relationships.”

Kristian Berg Harpviken, the Director of PRIO, added that “IASR is devoted to the type of scholarship that is based on deep empirical insight, combined with innovative methodology and analytical sophistication. PRIO’s longstanding commitment to top-notch academic publishing is reflected in our commitment to IASR and we have great expectations of both the journal and our partnerships with HUFS and SAGE.”

Mobile-optimized journals now on nature.com

April 20, 2012

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce mobile-optimization for a number of its journals on nature.com. Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports now offer complete mobile-optimized versions of their websites, designed for use in web browsers on “small screen” devices like smartphones and tablets. All other Nature research journals have also introduced mobile-optimized pages for all articles and news content. Site license access, COUNTER compliant usage statistics, and personal subscriptions are supported.

The mobile-optimized presentation has been designed to provide an improved reading and navigation experience in web browsers on smartphones and tablets. By employing Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) media queries the pages are reformatted on the fly based on the screen size of the device. On a smart phone the content is presented in a single column with dropdown menus, whereas on a tablet the journal’s homepage is either two or three columns depending on the orientation of the device.

The mobile versions support personal subscriptions and site license authentication for institutional customers. Site license authentication can be accessed through Shibboleth (UK Only), IP access via VPNs, Athens, Token-based access, proxies and over campus Wi-Fi networks, as supported by the institution. Access from mobile-optimized pages on nature.com is included in the COUNTER Compliant usage statistics reports provided to institutional customers.

“Our library customers have told us that they are keen to offer their patrons access to NPG journals on mobile devices,” says Tom Scott, Head of Platform at NPG. “Our small-screen optimization will improve the experience for mobile users accessing nature.com. We are committed to providing nature.com access that best meets our users evolving needs, and look forward to rolling out small-screen optimization across additional products on nature.com.”

Users are automatically directed to the mobile-optimized view when they access nature.com in their smartphone or tablet web browser. Users are also able to switch back to the full site version using the toggle button at the bottom of the screen. The new mobile site supports iPads, iPhones, and Android devices using browsers including: Safari, Firefox, Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, S40, S60. Mobile-optimized nature.com pages will also support Blackberry Web-Kit (available on Blackberry OS4.7.1 and above), available on most Blackberrys less than 18 months old. More information on supported browsers and FAQs are available on nature.com.

The mobile-optimized pages are the latest in a number of mobile offerings from NPG. Scientific American launched the Journey to the Exoplanets iPad app in September 2011, and introduced mobile-optimization on scientificamerican.com in November 2011. In January 2011 NPG launched a nature.com Reader for the iPad, following the February 2010 release of the nature.com iPhone app.

More than 50 new publishers add titles to ebrary’s Academic Complete for strategic e-book distribution

April 18, 2012

Publishers that distribute e-books to libraries under subscription in addition to other models will receive the greatest value, according to ebrary®, a ProQuest business. ebrary today announced that Wiley along with over 50 newly signed publishers such as American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Leuven University Press, and University of Illinois Press will distribute e-books in Academic Complete™ as well as other models including perpetual archive, patron driven acquisition, and short-term loan. Academic Complete subscribers will soon benefit from a growing selection of more than 75,000 quality e-books – including 1,800 new titles from Wiley – from over 500 participating publishers.

By leveraging Academic Complete to distribute certain types of e-books including important backlist titles which would traditionally have been out of print, and making others such as the most current e-books available in other models, publishers can participate in ebrary’s new strategic approach to e-book acquisition and distribution. This approach includes working with libraries to leverage Academic Complete subscription usage statistics by discipline to determine where to strategically apply additional budget to other acquisition models. It also involves streamlining and automating the ordering process through book vendors such as YBP.

“Libraries want the highest possible return on investment, which is best facilitated by a choice of business models that ultimately gives them the ability to purchase and license collections based on their budget availability and acquisition preferences,” said Leslie Lees, ebrary’s Vice President of Content Development. “Many academic institutions use ebrary’s subscription model as an ‘opening day’ collection. They then use usage data to drive purchase decisions for front-list content that has particular value for them under ebrary’s perpetual archive, e-preferred approval plans and patron driven acquisition business models.”

Academic Complete was the industry’s first e-book subscription product and has been serving as a foundational collection to thousands of libraries throughout the world for nearly a decade. San Jose State University, an Academic Complete customer, is currently examining usage statistics to strategically increase its patron driven acquisition initiative.

“…We have been examining our Academic Complete usage statistics to strategically expand our patron driven acquisition program. By focusing on higher use subjects, we can better determine which titles to add to our consideration pool and only purchase those that are used,” stated Carole Correa-Morris, Head of Acquisitions at San Jose State University in an ebrary press release issued April 10.

According to Kevin Sayar, President and General Manager of ebrary, a number of converging trends in the information industry are driving the need for strategic acquisition and distribution. “As publishers are making more e-books available digitally, and libraries are transitioning more budget from print to digital books, a more strategic approach is becoming a necessity,” said Sayar. “By utilizing a variety of models including subscription, publishers can more fully monetize their monographic content, and libraries can affordably acquire the e-books researchers require.”

For more information about ebrary please visit www.ebrary.com.

Wiley to launch digital publishing operations in Brazil

April 18, 2012

Wiley Establishes Wiley Brasil Editora LTDA: Global Publisher Seeks Strategic Opportunities with Local Partners to Develop “Digital First” Publishing Operation in Brazil

John Wiley & Sons, Inc (NYSE: JWa, JWb), announced the establishment of Wiley Brasil Editora LTDA in São Paulo, Brazil, effective May 1, 2012, a move which demonstrates the company’s growing commitment to bringing the world’s best research, learning, and professional content to Brazil, and the best of Brazilian thought to a global audience.

“We intend to build upon long-standing relationships with local organizations and pursue new strategic opportunities as we leverage Wiley’s global publishing expertise in Brazil. Our objective is to develop “digital first” content, services and learning resources specifically for the Brazilian market as well as to improve the availability of our content,” said Philip Kisray, Wiley’s Vice President, International Development.

Hegel Braga has been appointed as Wiley Brasil Editora LTDA’s Business and Market Development Director and Country Manager. He will draw upon his broad business and digital expertise as he engages with the Brazilian research, education, and professional communities and works with local partners to develop digital materials for these sectors.

“I am pleased to be part of Wiley’s innovative plans for the Brazilian market,” said Hegel Braga. “Through our “digital first” and partnership strategies, we aim to make Wiley’s products and services more valuable and accessible to Brazilian researchers, instructors, students, and professionals.”

Mr. Braga held management positions at IBM Brazil, Sony Music, Ediouro Publicações, and most recently, 20^thCentury Fox Home Entertainment – Brazil, where he was Marketing Director.

Emerald and Paths bring knowledge from China to international scholars

April 16, 2012

As the focus of this year’s London Book Fair is on China, Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to announce an exclusive books partnership with Paths International to bring knowledge from China to scholars around the world. As part of this agreement, Emerald will distribute Paths’s collection of books written in China and make them available to international communities of researchers and students. Emerald and Paths invite delegates at the London Book Fair to visit their respective stands L620 and R605 in order to find out more about this innovative collaboration to disseminate research.

Due to government and trading restrictions, foreign publishers are not currently able to establish entities within China that allow them to own Chinese publications. Paths International has exclusive agreements with institutions and publishers in China to produce and promote quality titles outside of China. With this partnership, Emerald becomes the exclusive sales and distribution agent for these books.

Paths selects some of the best books published in China in the areas of business, economics and finance; international relations and global security; social change and society; as well as history and architecture. Many of the authors are China’s leading experts in their field offering the latest research from primary source materials and local research within the country. Paths publish books mainly in English but also in Chinese for the overseas Chinese scholarly community

Jim Sutton, Head of Business Development at Emerald comments: “We are delighted to be working with Paths International on such an exciting venture. This agreement leverages our respective strengths and promises to break new ground in the dissemination of research globally. It will also enable us to raise our profile within China.”

Paul Goulding, Managing Director of Paths International, adds: “I see a global interest in the titles published in China, but I also see a unique opportunity in the provision of these titles to scholars outside of China. For instance, there are more than one million Chinese students around the world to whom we can now deliver valuable content thanks to this exciting partnership. “

Paths will publish 74 new titles this year, 57 of which are in the English language, in the fields of social sciences, business and economics, international relations, architecture, and economic history.

Emerald has got a very successful book publishing programme and will use its existing global distribution network to bring books published by Paths International to their target audience outside of China.

For more information about the partnership, contact Jim Sutton, at jsutton@emeraldinsight.com

OAPEN unveils beta version of Directory of Open Access Books

April 16, 2012

OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide the metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. These metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. At the start of the service there are just over 20 publishers participating with about 750 Open Access books and new publishers and books will be added in the next few days. Publishers who wish to participate in DOAB can find more information here. DOAB is launched in a Beta version to enable feedback from users and to further develop the service. We hope to considerably increase the number of publishers and OA books in DOAB in the coming months and thereby create a valuable resource for the scholarly community and interested public.

The Directory of Open Access Books is provided by OAPEN Foundation in cooperation with SemperTool. OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague. DOAB was developed in close cooperation with Lars Bjørnshauge and Salam Baker Shanawa (director of SemperTool), who were also responsible for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

For more information, please contact Eelco Ferwerda, director of the OAPEN Foundation, e.ferwerda@oapen.org, +31(0)629565168.

Publishing Technology and CNPIEC launch largest digital gateway in China

April 16, 2012

Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation, are unveiling the Digital Gateway, the most significant digital publishing platform ever launched for Chinese libraries, in a special ceremony at the London Book Fair today.

The digital portal has been developed by Publishing Technology, the largest industry provider of software and services, on the company’s flagship online publishing platform, pub2web, and is managed by CNPIEC, the largest and most highly-developed publication import and export group in China. With semantically enriched content and interfaces in English and Mandarin, the site directly links international publishers to over 10,000 of CNPIEC’s public and academic member libraries and potentially millions of new users.

Through the Digital Gateway, international publishers will be able to extend their reach into a burgeoning, untapped market, attracting new audiences to digest their content and opening up new revenue potential in the process. CNPIEC is the largest company fully licensed by the Chinese government to import publications, and the new site, in-line with the government’s long term digital publishing plans, will help improve online access and discoverability of content in Chinese libraries.

With many publishers and aggregators already showing great interest in negotiating partnerships with CNPIEC, Publishing Technology and CNPIEC predict that in the next two years over a million different content sources will be live and accessible on the site.

Mrs Wei Wu, Deputy President of CNPIEC, commented: “The Digital Gateway is a significant new development in the digitisation of Chinese libraries and a refreshing new distribution channel for overseas publishers. By taking advantage of the current library market coverage of CNPIEC and having their content hosted on a leading digital technology, publishers from all over the world will be able to extend visibility and discoverability of their content to a new growing market.”

George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, stated: “These are exciting times to be working in China. The academic sector is booming, the government is investing heavily in the country’s educational infrastructure, and the appetite for Western content in China is now greater than ever. Yet at the same time, the digital publishing landscape is still in its infancy.”

“We are extremely proud to be playing such an important role in the development of Chinese library digitisation and opening up new avenues of collaboration on content and culture that never existed before. The Digital Gateway is set to dramatically shake-up content consumption in China and we are extremely excited to offer publishers from around the world the unique opportunity to this resource, make their content go further and enjoy its lucrative benefits.” he concluded.

The Digital Gateway launch event will take place at 11:30am on 17 April 2012 in the Hampton Room at The London Book Fair. The event will feature speeches from high level dignitaries from the China Publishing Group, CPC Central Committee, State Council Information Office and Wolters Kluwer, in addition to CNPIEC and Publishing Technology.

Texas Attorney General Charges Three U.S. Publishers with Antitrust Law Violations, Price-Fixing for E-Books

April 12, 2012

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 15 state attorneys general today charged three of the nation’s largest book publishers and Apple Inc. with colluding to fix the sales prices of electronic books. The States’ antitrust case, which was filed in federal court in Austin, cites the defendants for violating the States’ antitrust laws and the federal Sherman Antitrust Act. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued the following statement:

“Colluding to fix prices violates antitrust laws and raises costs for customers. In this case, three of the nation’s largest publishing companies worked together to gain control of retail prices and raise the price of e-books. The defendants colluded to use the agency distribution model to effectively eliminate free market competition and allow publishers – rather than the marketplace – to set the price of e-books.”

The States’ antitrust action stems from a two-year investigation, led by the Texas Attorney General’s Office and coordinated with the offices of the Connecticut Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice, into allegations that the defendants conspired to raise e-book prices. For years, retailers sold e-books through a traditional wholesale distribution model, under which retailers – not publishers – set e-books’ sales prices. However, the investigation revealed that Penguin, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan conspired with other publishers and Apple to artificially raise prices by imposing a distribution model in which the publishers set the prices for bestsellers at $12.99 and $14.99.

When Apple prepared to enter the e-book market, the publishers and Apple agreed to adopt an agency distribution model as a mechanism to allow them to fix prices. To enforce their price-fixing scheme, the publishers and Apple relied on contract terms that forced all e-book outlets to sell their products at the same price. Because the publishers agreed to use the same prices, retail price competition was eliminated. According to the States’ enforcement action, the coordinated agreement to fix prices resulted in e-book customers paying more than $100 million in overcharges.

The States’ antitrust action seeks injunctive relief to reverse the effects of the defendants’ anti-competitive conduct as well as damages for customers who paid artificially inflated prices for e-books.

The States have reached an agreement in principle with Harper Collins and Hachette to provide significant consumer restitution as well as injunctive relief.

Texas was joined in today’s enforcement action by Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and West Virginia.

Defendants named in the States’ antitrust action:
• Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
• Simon & Schuster Inc.
• Macmillan Holdings LLC
• Apple Inc.

Thomson Reuters names Hottest Scientific Researchers and Papers of the year

April 12, 2012

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced The Hottest Research of 2011, a ranking of the most influential scientific researchers and research papers of the year by Science Watch®, its open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. Tracking researchers whose recent published papers recorded notably higher levels of citations during 2011, along with the most highly cited individual papers of the year, the annual report spotlights emerging trends in science and the innovators behind them.

This year’s group of 15 Hottest Researchers each contributed to at least 10 Hot Papers, covering key areas such as genetics, cardiology, epidemiology and cancer research. Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011. This was Lander’s eighth year on the list. He was followed by Salim Yusuf of McMaster University and Michael R. Stratton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, both of whom recorded 13 Hot Papers in 2011. The most highly cited individual paper published in 2011, “Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Observations: Cosmological Interpretations,” by E. Komatsu, of The University of Texas at Austin, et al. received a total of 564 citations during the year.

Following were among some of the key findings in the annual Hottest Research report:

• Genetics is Hottest Field of Study: Genetics was the primary field of study among seven of the 15 Hottest Researchers of 2011, including a landmark paper, “A Map of Human Genome Variation from Population-Scale Sequencing,” to which Lander and three of the other featured researchers contributed. This publication currently ranks among biology’s most-cited papers.

• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Produces Most Hot Researchers: Among the 15 Hottest Researchers of 2011, four hail from the UK’s charitably funded genomic research center, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and include Michael R. Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal, Peter J. Campbell and Panos Deloukas.

• The Journal Nature Published Greatest Number of Highly Cited Papers in 2011:Among the 38 individual research papers receiving the highest number of citations in 2011, 10 were published in the journal Nature, the highest number of the year’s hottest reports among all journals tracked in the report.

“Our annual analysis of the hottest researchers provides valuable insight into scientific and scholarly research trends, showing the people and fields eliciting the greatest attention,” said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Thomson Reuters. “Through the use of our research solutions and internal experts, we’re able to provide trend data and forecast the state of scientific and academic research.”

The year’s Hottest Researchers were identified using citations that occurred during calendar year 2011 for papers published between 2009 and 2011. The list of Hottest Papers tracks total citations to non-review papers during calendar year 2011. To compile both lists, Science Watch draws on data and commentary from Thomson Reuters bibliometric experts and Essential Science Indicators^SM, a unique compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Web of Knowledge^SM.

View the full Hottest Research paper here:http://sciencewatch.com/newsletter/2012/201203/hottest_research_2012/.