ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
The latest funding announcement from the ESRC commits £2.5 million to increase international collaboration with India, China, Brazil and the US in the areas of population and climate change. A total of about £13 million has been earmarked to start two new research centres in the field as well as continued support for a third centre.
Award winner: Jane Falkingham
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £5 million
Centre for Population Change based at the universities of Southampton and St Andrews (new)
Award winner: Judith Rees
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £4.5 million
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (new)
Award winner: Stephen Pudney
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £3.5 million
Research Centre on Micro Social Change (continued)
| Top 10 researchers in psychiatry and psychology based on total citations | ||||
| Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007 | ||||
| Num | Scientist | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper |
| 1 | Kessler, Ronald C, Harvard University School of Medicine, US | 138 | 8,514 | 61.70 |
| 2 | Biederman, J., Harvard University School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital, US | 229 | 6,769 | 29.56 |
| 3 | Faraone, Stephen V., Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, US | 213 | 6,392 | 30.01 |
| 4 | Kendler, Kenneth S, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US | 176 | 5,978 | 33.97 |
| 5 | Rutter, Michael, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK | 114 | 5,068 | 44.46 |
| 6 | Akiskal, Hagop S., Veterans Administration, Medical Center, San Diego, US | 144 | 4,869 | 33.81 |
| 7 | Keck, Paul E, University of Cincinnati, US | 135 | 4,838 | 35.84 |
| 8 | Murray, Robin M., King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK | 163 | 4,685 | 28.74 |
| 9 | McElroy, Susan L, University of Cincinnati, US | 116 | 4,659 | 40.16 |
| 10 | Caspi, Avshalom, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK | 102 | 4,548 | 44.5 |
| It can be noted that Biederman and Faraone were frequent co-authors on a number of highly cited papers dealing with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Keck and McElroy were also frequent co-authors of a number of highly cited papers concerning schizophrenia and bipolar mania. In addition to ADHD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and autism were the other dominant subjects of papers by the authors listed in the table. For the current version, 2,190 authors are listed in the field of psychiatry and psychology, meaning that a total of about 219,000 author records were reviewed to obtain these results. | ||||
| The data above were extracted from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators database. This database, currently covering the period January 1997 to October 2007, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Scientific. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and Thomson Scientific’s journal-to-category field definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Naturally, scientists publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood of collecting more citations than scientists publishing fewer papers. This ranking is by total citations. For articles with multiple authors, each author receives full, not fractional, citation credit. Another ranking could be based on citations per paper, which reveals weighted impact. Essential Science Indicators lists authors ranked in the top 1% for a field over a given period, based on total citations. For more information on Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, see http://scientific.thomson.com/products/esi. | ||||
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MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Fang Gao Smith
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £1,985,092
The BALTI 2 trial - a multi-centre randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the effect of intravenous infusions of salbutamol vs placebo on 28-day mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Award winner: David Taggart
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £2,663,140
The CRISP Trial - coronary artery grafting in high-risk patients randomised to off-pump or on-pump surgery
Award winner: Jane Norman
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £2,219,286
The OPPTIMUM trial, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of progesterone prophylaxis for the prevention of preterm labour
Award winner: David Richards
Institution: University of York
Value: £1,830,372
The CADET Trial - multi-centre randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for depression
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Ralf Gertisser
Institution: Keele University
Value: £69,694
New insights into the deposit architecture and emplacement mechanisms of block-and-ash flows using ground-penetrating radar
Award winner: Robin Allaby
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £43,947
Origins and evolution of ancient Egyptian cotton tracked by palaeogenomics
Award winner: Karen Anderson
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £80,850
Remote sensing of peatland responses to hydrological change
Award winner: Sofie Sjogersten Turner
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £55,531
Liability of organic carbon stored in permafrost peatlands
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Thorsten Schnier
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £254,261
Advanced analysis of building energy performance using computational intelligence approaches
Award winner: Elise Cartmell
Institution: Cranfield University
Value: £199,108
Delivering low-carbon anaerobic wastewater treatment and renewable energy production
Award winner: Henning Sirringhaus
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £133,811
A novel device architecture for high-performance organic solar cells
Award winner: John Irvine
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £142,473
Direct carbon fuel cell system development study
Award winner: Xiao Guo
Institution: University College London
Value: £89,654
Screening new families of metal organic frameworks for hydrogen storage
Award winner: Wolfgang Langbein
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £111,677
Spin currents and superfluidity of microcavity polaritons
Award winner: Andrew Cooper
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £148,315
High throughput discovery of "Hydrogel Nanoclathrates"
Award winner: Sir Peter Knight
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £228,592
Developing coherent states as a resource in quantum technology
Award winner: Luke Wilson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £157,679
Biomimetic hybrid semiconductor photovoltaic devices
Award winner: John Foord
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £324,398
A feasibility study of a silicon enabled hydrogen fuel economy.
