University scientists identified as ‘highly influential biomedical researchers’
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Two scientists from the University of Southampton have been identified as ‘highly influential biomedical researchers’ in a paper published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Professor Cyrus Cooper and Professor Stephen Holgate are two of 400 highly influential biomedical researchers worldwide identified by Boyack and colleagues from SciTech Strategies Inc., University School of Medicine, Philadelphia and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.
In order to create a more accurate understanding of impact, Boyack et al scored the 1996 to 2011 publications of scientists who published predominantly in the biomedical field. The restricted period was chosen not just to highlight more recent research but to expand the list of high scorers beyond the older veteran scientists. Scientists were ranked using the average of their standardised scores for total citations and h-index (essentially the number of highly cited papers).
Based on Scopus citation data from 1996-2011 the list provides the most common Medical Subject Heading terms in their articles that are also specific to their work, most common journals where they publish, number of papers with over 100 citations that they have published as first/single, last, or middle authors, and impact score adjusted for authorship positions. For each scientist the list shows the distribution of their papers across four main levels (basic-to-applied) of research.
Professor Cooper has published 630 papers and been cited 24,663 times in research areas such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and musculoskeletal epidemiology while Professor Holgate has published 641 papers and been cited 27,448 times when researching pathophysiology of asthma across the lifecourse.
Professor Cooper comments: “I am delighted to be included on this list of distinguished peers. It is, of course, testimony to the hard work of the wonderful team that I work with at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the University of Southampton.”
Professor Holgate adds: “I am honoured that the research I have been involved with over the years in Southampton has helped other scientists in their own research areas. I am very pleased to be publically recognised in this list since it highlights what a great place University of Southampton is to do translational research.”
To view the full list visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12171/abstract