Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

544	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

546	Watching science watchers
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

548	Transgenics -- At crossroads
	K. R. Koundal and P. K. Lawrence
549	Clinical database network
	G. R. Sridhar and Y. S. V. Rao
550	Ripe time for academia–industry partnership in production of abiotic stress-tolerant crops
	Anil Grover

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NEWS

551	Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
	Nirupa Sen

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RESEARCH NEWS 

553	E-Layer auroral observations: Effect on modern communications
	Nirupa Sen
555	Eyeing hedgehog and decapentaplegic
	Raghav Rajan
557	Production of high temperature tolerant transgenic plants through manipulation of membrane lipids
	Anil Grover, Manu Agarwal, Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal, Chandan Sahi and Sangeeta Agarwal

OPINION

560	Phylogenetics: An over-nourished tree?
	K. N. Ganeshaiah, K. Chandrashekara, R. Uma Shaanker and A. R. V. Kumar

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SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

563	Small angle X-ray scattering patterns in silk fibres
	J. David Londono, V. Annadurai, R. Gopalakrishne Urs and R. Somashekar
565	Solubilization of inorganic phosphates by Azospirillum halopraeferans
	S. Seshadri, R. Muthukumarasamy, C. Lakshminarasimhan and S. Ignacimuthu
567	Jellyfish ingress: A threat to the smooth operation of coastal power plants
	J. Gunasingh Masilamoni, K. S. Jesudoss, K. Nandakumar, K. K. Satpathy, K. V. K. Nair and J. Azariah

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GENERAL ARTICLE

570	Bioinformatics: The foundation of present and future biotechnology
	K. K. Tripathi

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REVIEW ARTICLE

576	Seed storage proteins and approaches for improvement of their nutritional quality by genetic engineering
	Surekha Mandal and R. K. Mandal

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SPECIAL SECTION: SCIENTOMETRICS

590	A tribute to Eugene Garfield – Discovering the intellectual base of his discipline
	Olle Persson
592	Convergence in natural, social, and technical systems: A critique
	R. Alan Hedley
602	Evaluation of the publication activity of research teams by means of scientometric indicators
	Peter Vinkler
613	Mapping fish research in India
	B. Jayashree and Subbiah Arunachalam
621	Mapping international collaboration in science in Asia through coauthorship analysis
	Subbiah Arunachalam and M. Jinandra Doss
629	Integrating, navigating, and analysing open Eprint archives through open citation linking (the OpCit project)
	Stevan Harnad and Leslie Carr

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

639	Can a passive hopper hop forever?
	C. K. Reddy and R. Pratap

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

646	Synthesis of organised inorganic crystal assemblies
	Arvind Sinha, Swapan Kumar Das, V. Rao and P. Ramachandrarao
648	Detection of areal snow cover changes over Antarctica using SSM/I passive microwave data
	T. J. Majumdar and K. K. Mohanty
651	Neoproterozoic sponge spicules and organic-walled microfossils from the Gangolihat Dolomite, Lesser Himalaya, India
	Meera Tiwari, C. C. Pant and V. C. Tewari
655	Organic carbon stock in Indian soils and their geographical distribution
	T. Bhattacharyya, D. K. Pal, C. Mandal and M. Velayutham

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BOOK REVIEWS

661	Labyrinth of Thought: A History of Set Theory and its Role in Modern Mathematics
	reviewed by Sundar Sarukkai
662	The Indian Ocean: Images and Realities
	reviewed by Kartik Shanker
663	Deccan Volcanic Province. West Volume
	reviewed by P. Krishnamurthy

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HISTORICAL NOTES

665	K. S. Krishnan and the Kodaikanal Observatory
	D. C. V. Mallik

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COVER. The intellectual base of scientometrics 1978­-1999. First author co-citations made by 1062 papers in the journal Scientometrics. See page 590.