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\"\"<\/a>Thomson Reuters, the firm responsible for the Web of Science database, has released a list of the 3,200 most influential scientists of recent years, the ones who have published articles that were cited extremely frequently, from 2001 to 2012, in 21 fields of knowledge.\u00a0 Five names on the list are from Brazil.\u00a0 One of them is Paulo Arturo, professor at the Physics Institute of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) and member of the Area Panel of the FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change.\u00a0 His articles received more than 10,000 citations.\u00a0 One of his most recognized works discusses the effect that aerosol particles emitted during the burning of forests in the Amazon Region have on climate and clouds.\u00a0 \u201cWe demonstrated the key role those particles play in cloud development in the region and in the atmospheric radiation balance,\u201d explains Artaxo, who calls attention to the poor showing by Brazilians in that compilation.\u00a0 \u201cWe still have a lot to do to increase the international significance of articles published in Brazil,\u201d he says.\u00a0 Cardiologist \u00c1lvaro Avezum, director of the research division of the Dante Pazzanese Institute in S\u00e3o Paulo, is the author of 156 indexed articles and had more than 16,000 citations.\u00a0 Those of his works that had the greatest impact are connected with collaborative research studies that followed the progress of hundreds of thousands of patients in different countries and demonstrated the associations between certain risk factors\u2014for example, acute myocardial infarction and CVA.\u00a0 Ernesto Gonzalez, professor at the S\u00e3o Carlos Chemistry Institute at USP, published about 220 articles and received more than 5,000 citations.\u00a0 His research focuses on ethanol fuel cells.\u00a0 \u201cWe achieved a nearly 50% conversion of ethanol to carbon dioxide, which makes ethanol more effective as a fuel,\u201d Gonzalez says.\u00a0 Agronomist Adriano Nunes-Nesi, of the Federal University of Vi\u00e7osa, completed between 2004 and 2010 a \u201csandwich\u201d of doctorate and post-doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, in Germany, where he participated in a comprehensive study of the physiological roles of Krebs cycle enzymes in tomatoes.\u00a0 The group of which he was a member was able to use the results to increase tomato production.\u00a0 Sven Wunder, a German researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), has published several articles on forestry policy during the 10 years he has been working in Brazil.\u00a0 In 2009, he coordinated a study on the Amazon region that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilians listed among recent years’ most influential scientists \r\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[215],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-156316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-scientometrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156316"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=156316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}