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The new ScienceWatch.com from Thomson Scientific provides a comprehensive, open Web resource for science metrics and analysis. This website combines the newest Science Watch newsletter material with regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary drawn from InCites (www.in-cites.com) and ESI Special Topics (www.esi-topics.com).

Bringing all these resources together in one easily accessible website gives the scientific community an ideal, convenient location for keeping up with the latest developments in science: what the leading scientists have to say, how the hottest topics are affecting research and everyday life, where the most significant research is taking place, and much more.

Hottest research of 2006-07
ScienceWatch.com has just published its annual look back at the hottest of recent research, focusing on highly cited researchers and papers. Physicist Mikhail Kopytine of Kent State University leads the field of scientists with 12 hot papers. And the hottest paper, with 204 citations during the analysis period, is D.N. Spergel, et al.," Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Implications for cosmology," Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 170(2): 377-408, June 2007.

"ScienceWatch.com uses data from Web of Science and also our Essential Sciences Indicators database, but then adds another dimension," says Dr. Henry Small, Chief Scientist at Thomson Scientific. "The database provides an unbiased way to survey the scientific landscape and spot features that are newsworthy and significant — new topics, new developments, new trends. Then we dig deeper, and interview the scientists involved. So when you access ScienceWatch.com, you're accessing the scientific community — and discovering their perspectives and their insights."