Recognizing Top JFS Papers

Top papers of 2011: recognizing our finest.

Y ou can tweet all day, but it is hard to distinguish the finest tweets among the noise. After all, there are about 50 million tweets in a single day at Twitter. Coincidentally, that just happens to be the total number of journal articles published in the world since 1665 when Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was started So which was the best paper ever written? 50 million is far...

Bibliometrics : top vision papers

This paper describes a passive stereo system for capturing the 3D geometry of a face in a single-shot under standard light sources. The system is low-cost and easy to deploy. Results are submillimeter accurate and commensurate with those from state-ofthe-art systems based on active lighting, and the models meet the quality requirements of a demanding domain like the movie industry. Recovered mo...

Recognizing the Top Reviewers for Circulation Research.

A journal can only be as good as its reviewers. The Editors of Circulation Research wish to acknowledge the following reviewers, who have distinguished themselves for exemplary performance and outstanding contributions to the journal. They have selflessly donated their time (often on weekends and evenings), their energy, and their expertise to assist the editors in the difficult task of selecti...

Top 20 Papers Downloaded during November 2005

Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at contributing to this body of research, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results...