Scientific Reviewing and
The NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing



Essays on  Scientific Reviewing

Proposal for a new profession ~  Scientific Reviewer
   http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3p084y1977-78.pdf

Why don't we have Science Reviews?
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p175y1974-76.pdf

So you wanted more review articles --
ISI's new Index to Scientific Reviews (ISR) will help you find them.
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p170y1974-76.pdf

ISI's "New" Index to Scientific Reviews (ISR):
Applying Research Front Specialty Searching to the Retrieval fof the Review Literature
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p695y1981-82.pdf

Reviewing Review Literature. Part 1. Definitions and Uses of Reviews
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v10p113y1987.pdf
 
Reviewing Review Literature. Part 2. The Place of Reviews in the Scientific Literature
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v10p117y1987.pdf 
 


Awardees of the
NAS  Award  for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing


 
The (1979) NAS James Murray Luck Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing: G. Alan Robison receives the first award for his work on Cyclic AMP
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p127y1979-80.pdf

The 1980 NAS James Murray Luck Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing: Conyers Herring Receives Second Award for his work in Solid-State Physics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v4p512y1979-80.pdf

The 1981 NAS James Murray Luck Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing: John S. Chipman Receives Third Award for his Reviews in Economics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p096y1981-82.pdf

The 1982 NAS Fourth J.M. Luck Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing Goes to Victor McKusick for his Mapping of the Literature in Human Genetics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v5p506y1981-82.pdf

The 1983 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing goes to Michael Ellis Fisher for his reviews of the Theory of Equilibrium Critical Phenomena
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v6p139y1983.pdf

The 1984 NAS Award for excellence in scientific reviewing: E.R. Hilgard receives sixth award for his work in psychology
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v7p182y1984.pdf

The 1985 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing goes to Ira Herskowitz for his Reviews of Phage Biology
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v8p151y1985.pdf

The 1986 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing Goes To Virginia L. Trimble for Her Reviews in Astronomy and Astrophysics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v9p146y1986.pdf

The 1987 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award for Scientific Reviewing goes to Gardner Lindzey for Reviews in Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Behavioral Genetics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v10p159y1987.pdf

Of Sea Snails and Science Reviews: Neurobiologist Eric R. Kandel Receives the 1988 NAS Awards for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing.
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v11p317y1988.pdf

The 1989 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing Goes to Sidney Coleman for His Reviews in Theoretical Physics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v12p117y1989.pdf

The 1990 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing Goes to James N. Spuhler for Reviews in Cultural and Biological Anthropology
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v13p161y1990.pdf

Shedding New Light on the Photosynthetic Process. Alexander N. Glazer Receives the 1991 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v14p065y1991.pdf

Robert T. Watson of NASA Receives (1992) NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing of Stratospheric Ozone Dynamics
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v15p057y1992-93.pdf

Janet T. Spence Receives the 1993 NAS Award for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing
   http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v15p377y1992-93.pdf