Data from Thomson
Scientific's
Essential
Science IndicatorsSM, January 1, 1997-October 31, 2007,
based on total citations.
|
Rank
|
Scientist
|
Papers
|
Citations
|
Citations
Per
Paper
|
|
1
|
FRASER, Claire M.
Institute of Genome Sciences,
University of Maryland,
Baltimore, MD, USA
|
66
|
10,231
|
155.02
|
|
2
|
WHITE, Owen
J. Craig Venter Institute,
Rockville, MD, USA and
La Jolla, CA, USA
|
30
|
8,907
|
296.90
|
|
3
|
VENTER, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter Institute,
Rockville, MD, USA and
La Jolla, CA, USA
|
18
|
7,600
|
422.22
|
|
4
|
SODROSKI, Joseph G.
Harvard University and
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Boston, MA, USA
|
103
|
6,841
|
66.42
|
|
5
|
PARKHILL, Julian
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome
Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge, England
|
54
|
6,379
|
118.13
|
|
6
|
AMANN, Rudolf
Max Planck Institute of
Marine Microbiology,
Bremen, Germany
|
108
|
6,329
|
58.60
|
|
7
|
BARRELL, Barclay G.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome
Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge, England
|
23
|
6,274
|
272.78
|
|
8
|
QUAIL, Michael A.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome
Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge, England
|
32
|
6,242
|
195.06
|
|
9
|
SMITH, Hamilton O.
J. Craig Venter Institute,
Rockville, MD, USA and
La Jolla, CA, USA
|
15
|
6,067
|
404.47
|
|
10
|
RAJANDREAM, Marie-Adele
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome
Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridge, England
|
20
|
5,661
|
283.05
|
The data above were extracted from
Thomson Scientific's
Essential
Science Indicators database. This database, currently covering the
period January 1997 to October 2007, surveys only journal articles
(original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson
Scientific. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in
which they were published and Thomson Scientific’s
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.
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, 2,358 authors are listed in the field of microbiology, meaning
that a total of 235,800 author records were reviewed to obtain these
results. Two institutions – the J. Craig Venter Institute and the
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – account for seven of 10 names on
the list, owing to many highly cited papers from these two organizations
reporting complete genome sequences of various microorganisms. Visit
Essential
Science Indicators from Thomson Scientific.
This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine,
reprinted with their
permission.
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