Best Papers 2010

Dr Philippe Charlet, CITAC Vice Chair and Award Coordinator, announced results of the CITAC members' voting, according to which the most interesting/important papers by the CITAC version 2010 are (in no particular sequence) published in Accred. Qual. Assur. 2011:

Takeshi Saito, Toshihide Ihara, Masayoshi Koike, Shinichi Kinugasa, Yoshinori Fujimine, Kazutoshi Nose, and Tetsuya Hirai. "A new traceability scheme for the development of international system-traceable persistent organic pollutant reference materials by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance", Accred Qual Assur, (2009) 14:79-86
 

Garritt L. Page and Stephen B. Vardeman. "Using Bayes methods and mixture models in inter-laboratory studies with outliers",  Accred. Qual. Assur. 2010, Volume 15, Number 7, Pages 379-389
 

Arsene CG, Henrion A, Diekmann N, Manolopoulou J, Bidlingmaier M. "Quantification of growth hormone in serum by isotope dilution mass spectrometry", Anal Biochem. 2010 Jun 15;401(2):228-35. Epub 2010 Mar 10.

Best Papers 2009

Congratulations to the authors of the CITAC Award 2009 winning papers (in no particular sequence):

Luca Callegaro, Francesca Pennecchi, Pier Giorgio Spazzini. "Comparison of calibration curves using the L_p norm",  Accred Qual Assur (2009) 14:587-592

Samuel Wunderli, Hanspeter Andres. "Metrological Aspects of Glucose Measurements by Biosensors",  Electroanalysis (2009) 21:1984-1991

Olaf Rienitz, Detlef Schiel, Bernd Guttler, Michael Koch, Ulrich Borchers: "A Convenient and economic approach to achieve SI-traceable reference values to be used in drinking-water interlaboratory comparisons",  Accred Qual Assur (2007) 12: 615–622

Best Papers 2008

Dr Wynand Louw, CITAC Vice-Chairman and Award Coordinator, announced results of the CITAC members' voting, according to which the most interesting/important papers on Metrology in Chemistry by the CITAC version 2008 are (in no particular sequence):

Ronald G. Manning, Steven Lane, Shawn Dressman, Walter W. Hauck, Roger, L. Williams:  "The application of uncertainty to USP’s compendial reference standards program: certified reference materials", Pharmacopeial Forum (2007) 33(6):2-14

Paul De Bièvre: "Essential for metrology in chemistry, but not yet achieved: truly internationally understood concepts and associated terms", Metrologia (2008) 45:335–341

Andrew S. Brown, Richard J. C. Brown, Warren T. Corns and Peter B.Stockwell: "Establishing SI traceability for measurements of mercury vapour", Analyst (2008) 133/6: 946-953

Best Papers 2007

"The winners of the "CITAC most interesting/important papers on Metrology in Chemistry" for 2007 are:

Venkatesh Iyengar, "Metrological concepts for enhancing the reliability of food and nutritional measurements" published in the Journal of food Composition and Analysis 20 (2007) 449-450,

Bertil Magnusson, "Handbook for Calculation of Measurement Uncertainty in Environmental Laboratories" published by Nordtest Tekniikantie 12, FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland, www,nordtest.org and

David L. Deuwer, "How to combine Results having stated Uncertainties: To MU or not to MU?" published in: Ales Fajgelj, Maria Belli, Umberto Sansone (Eds.) Combining and reporting analytical results. Royal Society of Chemistry, London (2007), pp 127-142.