Scientist Rankings in Environment & Ecology, 1997-2007
The data below were extracted from Thomson Reuters Essential Science IndicatorsSM database. This database, currently covering the period January 1997 to December 2007, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and Thomson Reuters journal-to-category field definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Naturally, scientists publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood of collecting more citations than scientists publishing fewer papers. This ranking is by total citations. For articles with multiple authors, each author receives full, not fractional, citation credit. Another ranking could be based on citations per paper, which reveals weighted impact.
Ranked by total citations. Data from Thomson Reuters Essential Science IndicatorsSM, 1997-2007.
| Rank | Scientist | Papers | Citations |
Citations Per Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TILMAN, G. David University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA |
65 | 5,771 | 88.78 |
| 2 |
GIESY, John P. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
184 | 5,196 | 28.24 |
| 3 |
VITOUSEK, Peter M. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
78 | 5,013 | 64.27 |
| 4 |
JONES, Kevin C. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK |
213 | 4,726 | 22.19 |
| 5 |
REICH, Peter B. University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA |
108 | 4,519 | 41.84 |
| 6 |
CHAPIN, F. Stuart University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA |
96 | 4,366 | 45.48 |
| 7 |
KANNAN, Kurunthachalam Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health, and University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA |
140 | 3,893 | 27.81 |
| 8 |
SUMPTER, John P. Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK |
36 | 3,632 | 100.89 |
| 9 |
LAWTON, John H. National Environment Research Council, Swindon, UK |
37 | 3,618 | 97.78 |
| 10 |
LOREAU, Michel McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA |
57 | 3,397 | 59.60 |
A survey of the research interests of these scientists reveals some major themes: biodiversity, population dynamics, ecosystem functioning and the impact of man, global climate change, conservation biology, and ecotoxicology including the environmental effects of organic contaminants (Giesy, Jones, and Kannan). Essential Science Indicators lists authors ranked in the top 1% for a field over a given period, based on total citations. For the current version, 2,800 authors are listed in the field of environment/ecology, meaning that a total of approximately 280,000 authors’ records were reviewed to obtain these results
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This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine, reprinted with their permission.
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