2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - its the year for metalloproteins

It's that time of the year again. Who will get the highest honor of the scientific research?

Chembark already has some math going for the predictions. His most bet is for "Nuclear Hormone Signaling, by Chambon/Evans/Jensen".  Thompson reuters says Louis Brus for QDots work based on citation counts.

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Watch out magnetotactic bacteria are splitting

Ever wondered how nanomagnets are shared when a magnetotactic bacteria is splitting into two? The mystery was resolved for good by Katzmann et al. (Dirk Schüler group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with a slick in situ electron microscopy monitoring experiment (see the figure). Authors argue that the bacteria bends to tune down the magnetostatic interactions but not destroy the alignment entirely as the newly formed daughters will need that after the split. The type of the bacteria is Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense. 

Top Institutions in Chemistry

Science Watch reported the ranking of top institutions in chemistry for the International Year of Chemistry, 2011. The study came out as the "Featured Analysis, Sept/Oct 2011"

Although university rankings or top colleges lists are prepared by looking into many factors, from student satisfaction to nobel prize winners, this list purely represents the best research institutions of chemistry or in other words, best chemistry departments (based on the data from 2001-2011). If your institution is within this list, you must be proud:

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Top 20 Countries in All Fields

ScienceWatch.com has the list of "Top 20 countries in all fields" for the past decade, the years of 2000-2010.

The list is a product of the Essential Science Indicators by Thomson Reuters. The data counted for all authors in full, meaning that "For articles with multiple authors representing different nations, each listed nation receives full, not fractional, citation credit for the given paper". The study dates in December 2010.

LISTED BY PAPERS

Rank	Country	Papers	Citations	Cites per paper
1	USA	2,967,957	46,796,090	15.77
2	JAPAN	770,252	7,877,699	10.23
3	GERMANY	762,599	9,960,100	13.06
4	PEOPLES R CHINA	719,971	4,227,779	5.87
5	ENGLAND	679,394	9,979,737	14.69
6	FRANCE	542,293	6,660,630	12.28
7	CANADA	430,856	5,619,293	13.04
8	ITALY	409,232	4,770,753	11.66
9	SPAIN	315,420	3,256,075	10.32
10	AUSTRALIA	284,250	3,359,748	11.82
11	RUSSIA	267,319	1,243,711	4.65
12	INDIA	266,230	1,497,065	5.62
13	SOUTH KOREA	254,599	1,767,799	6.94
14	NETHERLANDS	239,892	3,687,829	15.37
15	BRAZIL	190,801	1,197,953	6.28
16	SWEDEN	174,052	2,548,046	14.64
17	SWITZERLAND	172,904	2,873,881	16.62
18	TAIWAN	162,197	1,115,524	6.88
19	POLAND	144,559	954,220	6.6
20	TURKEY	138,345	687,389	4.97
SOURCE: ESSENTIAL SCIENCE INDICATORSSM FROM THOMSON REUTERS, TIME PERIOD: 2000-AUGUST 31, 2010 (FOURTH BIMONTHLY PERIOD OF 2010).

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Top 20 Countries in Chemistry

ScienceWatch listed the "Top 20 Nations in Chemistry" in their Country Feature dated March 2011:

Rank	Country	Papers	Citations	Cites per paper
1	USA	229,635	4,308,363	18.76
2	JAPAN	115,760	1,363,434	11.78
3	GERMANY	96,984	1,349,496	13.91
4	PEOPLES R CHINA	181,496	1,245,602	6.86
5	FRANCE	66,244	852,544	12.87
6	ENGLAND	55,781	844,654	15.14
7	SPAIN	46,762	581,282	12.43
8	ITALY	42,623	528,136	12.39
9	CANADA	33,507	454,102	13.55
10	INDIA	64,903	451,536	6.96
11	SOUTH KOREA	36,557	360,424	9.86
12	NETHERLANDS	18,817	346,562	18.42
13	SWITZERLAND	18,663	328,949	17.63
14	AUSTRALIA	19,131	237,923	12.44
15	SWEDEN	14,800	226,028	15.27
16	RUSSIA	61,590	219,541	3.56
17	POLAND	29,453	207,607	7.05
18	TAIWAN	20,041	186,746	9.32
19	BELGIUM	13,246	166,600	12.58
20	BRAZIL	20,637	158,281	7.67
SOURCE: ESSENTIAL SCIENCE INDICATORSSM FROM THOMSON REUTERS, TIME PERIOD: JANUARY 2000-DECEMBER 31, 2010 (SIXTH BIMONTHLY PERIOD OF 2010).

They listed the "Top 20 Nations in Chemistry" by total citations. "Essential Science Indicators" database from Thomson Reuters was used to create the list.

One important finding is that "the average citation rate for field of chemistry was 11.19"