The Grain aims to tell the story behind research that’s made an immense impact on science. Inspired by the former series Citation Classics, The Grain features essays by authors with publications that have one thousand citations or more or a very high Altmetric score (the top 250).
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These essays should provide a brief background on the research itself and describe how it was conceived and undertaken. The Winnower wants authors to describe the story behind the research.
The
impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake on people living in the Tohoku and
Kanto districts and on Japanese society in general were, in many ways, beyond
description. The earthquake and the accompanying tsunami destroyed many cities
along the east coast of the Tohoku and Kanto districts...
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- Kazunori Yoshizawa
- Rodrigo L Ferreira
- Yoshitaka Kamimura
- Charles Lienhard
The penis is, by definition, the male copulatory organ (e.g., New Oxford American Dictionary). Sex-specific features are not restricted to copulatory organs, and many examples of sex-specif...
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How is it that a paper that could not get published had the fourth highest reported Altmetric score for all scientific contributions in 2013 (Liu 2014)? This contribution to the Grain has t...
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SHELX is simply a widely used set of crystallographic computer programs that I have spent most of the last 45 years, in my spare time from university teaching, writing and I am by no means ...
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- Andrew Lepp
- Jacob E. Barkley
- Aryn C. Karpinski
We like to say that the idea for this research was hatched over the grill at a backyard barbeque. And that's the truth. It was. We were discussing the widespread use of cell phones acros...
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