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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 

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<http://scientific.thomson.com/press/2006/8315590/> 

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