University of Sydney scholars named among world's most influential scientific minds
Six University of Sydney scholars have been named among the world's most influential scientific minds in a new analysis of thousands of academic papers by Thomson Reuters.
The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 report is based on the number of cited research papers an academic published from 2003 to 2013.
It identifies the best and most influential scholars from among the world’s estimated nine million researchers who publish upwards of two million papers each year.
The report also includes a ranking of the “hottest researchers”, whose recently published papers were cited at extraordinarily high levels over a short period of time.
Highly cited scholars were assigned to one of 21 main specialty areas, based on a majority of the specific journals in which they published their highly cited papers between 2003 and 2013. The large, populous and active life-sciences fields of Clinical Medicine, Biology and Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology and Genetics were prolific in producing highly cited researchers.
By contrast, smaller fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics and Business, with comparatively lower numbers of researchers and journals, produced proportionally fewer highly cited scholars.
The six University of Sydney scholars named among the world’s most influential scientific minds are:
Emeritus Professor Bruce Armstrong
Sydney School of Public Health, Sax Institute, Sydney Medical School. Citation field: social sciences.
Sydney School of Public Health, Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Medical School. Citation field: social sciences.
School of Physics, Faculty of Science. Citation field: economics and business.
The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School. Citation field: clinical medicine.
The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School. Citation field: clinical medicine.
The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School. Citation field: clinical medicine.
Australia had 103 highly-cited scholars, ranking fifth behind the US, UK, Germany and China. The USA’s University of California System was the leading university represented with 160 highly cited researchers, followed by Harvard University.
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