Three Out of Ten Most-Cited Online Chemistry Articles Published by Academic Press and Available On IDEAL.

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According to Science Spotlight, a new Web feature from Chemical Abstracts Service, Academic Press published three of the ten chemistry-related research articles most frequently cited online during 1999 and 2000 and appearing in the 8,000 journals included in CAS databases.

CAS Science Spotlight provides as a free service lists of highly cited and requested documents, as well as bibliographic and abstract information -- plus full-text articles, where available.

In determining the ten most-cited articles from 1999 and from 2000, CAS Science Spotlight examined electronic citations of scientific articles published from 1947 to 2000. The resulting top-ten lists highlight Academic Press' strong position among scientific, technical and medical publishers: AP published the most articles on the lists for both 1999 and 2000, and published the article ranking second on both lists.

This article, "A rapid and sensitive method for the quantification of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-due binding," by Marion M. Bradford, appeared in the journal Analytical Biochemistry in 1976.

Analytical Biochemistry also published the article ranking fourth on both lists, "Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction," written by Piotr Chomczynski and Nicoletta Sacchi. This article appeared in 1987.

Coming in at sixth place in 1999 and eighth in 2000 among the ten most-cited articles, "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool" was published in 1990 in Academic Press' Journal of Molecular Biology. Stephen F. Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugen W. Meyers, and David J. Lipman authored this article.

CAS Director Robert Massie said, "CAS is recognised as the world's most comprehensive source of information on chemical and related sciences, whether this information is from literature or patent documents. Science Spotlight is a first step in analysing CAS' growing collection of citations and deriving insights into the focus and direction of scientific research today.

"We congratulate Academic Press editors and researchers on their remarkable presence in this initial analysis. On behalf of scientific researchers everywhere, we also thank them for providing the full text of their articles for use in the CAS Science Spotlight service."

Stated Academic Press President Dr. Pieter Bolman, "Indeed it is gratifying that CAS Science Spotlight findings are confirming the enduring demand among research communities for articles published in Academic Press journals.

"To our editors and authors who produced the articles numbering in the CAS' top-ten lists, we offer recognition and sincere thanks for their contributions to science.

"And we applaud CAS for undertaking on a large scale the tracking of citations -- an endeavor sure to provide better yardsticks for both the scientific and publishing communities in their quest for continually improving quality in science publishing."

Science Spotlight now encompasses full-text articles from the following publishers, authors and distributors: Academic Press/IDEAL; ACS Publications; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); MicroPatent; National Research Council of Canada; Oxford University Press; National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.; Dr. Fredrick Sanger, Cambridge, England; and Dr. Harry Towbin, Basel, Switzerland.

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides Web access to chemistry-related research data. More information on Science Spotlight appears at http://www.cas.org/spotlight/ -- a site linking at no charge to the three Academic Press articles cited here and available on IDEAL(R).

The International Digital Electronic Access Library, IDEAL, is licensed in 35 countries by more than 2,400 academic institutions and industrial and pharmaceutical companies. Over 10 million users worldwide are authorized to use IDEAL.

Today IDEAL offers approximately 200,000 journal articles, as well as access to other electronic research products such as IDEALReferenceWorks encyclopedias and information systems from SciVision.

Journals on IDEAL are published by Academic Press, Mosby, Bailliere Tindall, W.B. Saunders, and Churchill Livingstone. More information about IDEAL appears at http://www.idealibrary.com.

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