A recent study from Stanford University explores the citation impact of the world’s 100,000 top scientists across all scientific fields. At the University of Eastern Finland, Professor of Internal Medicine Markku Laakso was ranked 524th in the world, when looking at career-long impact. Other University of Eastern Finland scientists ranked in the top 10,000 for career-long impact are Academy Professor Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Professor Emeritus Kalevi Pyörälä, Professor Emeritus Matti Uusitupa and Professor Asla Pitkänen, all representing the fields of medicine and molecular medicine. The study was published in PLOS Biology in October.
All in all, 58 University of Eastern Finland scientists representing the fields of, e.g., medicine, forest sciences, environmental and biological sciences, physics, pharmacy and toxicology were ranked in the top 100,000 when looking at their career-long impact. When looking at single-year impact (2019), a total of 47 University of Eastern Finland scientists were included in the list.
Professor Markku Laakso was ranked among the world’s most impactful scientists also in his own field, i.e., in research addressing metabolic disorders. Ranked in the top 100 in their respective fields were also Professor Timo Pukkala, Professor Jyrki Kangas, Professor Heli Peltola, Professor Matti Maltamo and Professor Emeritus Seppo Kellomäki from the School of Forest Sciences, and Professor Marianna Virtanen from the School of Educational Science and Psychology in the field of occupational health.
The openly accessible database published by Stanford University contains data on 100,000 top scientists across all scientific fields. The database provides standardised information on, for example, citations, h-index, co-authorship and citations to papers in different authorship positions. Separate data are provided for single-year (2019) and career-long impact. For the latter, the database uses Scopus citation data from 1996 to 2019. For papers published from 1960 until 1995, the citations received in 1996–2019 are also included in the calculations, providing a measure of long-term performance, and for most living, active scientists, reflecting their career-long impact.
The study by Stanford University is available as an open access article at https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918&type=printable
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