research

In the past years it has become very popular to use metric data to evaluate the quality of science. England, for instance, has for several years used a complicated RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) system, where an expert panel evaluate the quality of a research institution (typically on the department level) based on the number of publications, citations and the quality of the publications.

2007 is almost gone and like in many other areas, it is popular in science to look back at the things that stood out in the year.

There is a list of the most best papers in 2007 in the latest issue of the science magazine Nature. The magazine asked its editors to pick their favourite

papers from two categories. Their favourite papers from other scientific journals and their favourite Nature papers.

In the first category they highlight among others the following papers. View the full list here (Notice that you need access to read the full artcile).