Scientist Rankings in Neuroscience & Behaviour, 1997-2007
The data below were extracted from Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators database. This database, currently covering the period January 1997 to August 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.
Based on total citations. Data from Thomson Reuters Essential Science IndicatorsSM, January 1, 1997-August 31, 2007.
| Rank | Scientist | Papers | Citations |
Citations Per Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
MATTSON, MP National Institute on Aging Bethesda, MD, USA |
244 | 14,732 | 60.4 |
| 2 |
GAGE, FH Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA |
122 | 13,178 | 108.0 |
| 3 |
FRISTON, KJ University College London, Institute of Neurology, London, UK |
161 | 10,659 | 66.2 |
| 4 |
TROJANOWSKI, JQ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
205 | 10,613 | 51.8 |
| 5 |
DOLAN, RJ University College London, Institute of Neurology, London, UK |
167 | 10,378 | 62.1 |
| 6 |
MCEWEN, BS Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA |
187 | 10,288 | 55.0 |
| 7 |
ROBBINS, TW University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
227 | 9,847 | 43.4 |
| 8 |
MALENKA, RC Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA |
90 | 9,467 | 105.2 |
| 9 |
LEE, VMY University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
189 | 9,449 | 50.0 |
| 10 |
NICOLL, RA University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
87 | 8,518 | 97.9 |
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.
It should be noted that Malenka and Nicholl, as well as Trojanowski and Lee, are co-authors on a number of highly cited articles. 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, 3,214 authors are listed in the field of neuroscience and behaviour, meaning that a total of 321,400 author records were reviewed to obtain these results.
Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters.
This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine, reprinted with their permission.
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