Web of Science

Using the tool Web of Science, part of ISI's Web of Knowledge, I attempted to find further information on Dr. Monica Medina's work. After a few experiments utilizing trial and error I found that putting "coral" as the topic and "Medina M" as the author gets a slightly better number of results than other methods tried. Using these access points, 5 results were return all of which were authored by the person we're studying, one being a correction of an article. I decided to further explore:

Medina, M., A. G. Collins, T. L. Takaoka, J. V. Kuehl and J. L. Boore (2006). "Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(24): 9096-100.

This article was chosen because it was the only one that listed her name as the first primary author and had the most citations. It was cited 37 times. Exploring further using the "analyze results" option it was found that Dr. Medina self-cited only 3 times. Of the other authors that cited her, each cited her two or three times. It is not surprising that most of the citing articles are similar in topic to Dr. Medina's, dealing mostly with genetics, evolutionary biology, marine biology, etc. It was found that most of the citing articles were published in the United States, amounting to 24, followed by Australia with 5 publications listed. Out of the 37 citations, 30 were within articles. All citing publications were in English and were from various institutions. Most of the citations to this 2006 article occured in 2008 (20 citations) and 2007 (14 citations). It would be very interesting to see if it continues to grow in popularity in 2009 and 2010.