On October 19th, one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific literature, ELSEVIER BV, published a list of 2 percent of scientists in the world with the highest impact of citations under the original title: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.”
An article published by Elsevier which was signed by Professors John P.A. Ioannidis, Kevin W. Boyack, and Jeroen Baas of Stanford University in California (United States: U.S.) published a list of 2 percent of scientists in the world with the highest impact of citations throughout their careers and in 2020. It is based on a scientific analysis of data available in Elsevier ‘s citation and bibliographic database of the SCOPUS group of researchers from Stanford University.
The current list of scientists who are among the 2 percent of the best in the world in terms of the impact of citations in their careers includes four members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as follows:
Academician prof. dr. Kemal Hanjalic, Department of Technical Sciences
Academician prof. dr. Dejan Milosevic, Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Academician prof. dr. Asif Sabanovic, Department of Technical Sciences
Academician prof. dr. Enver Zerem, Department of Medical Sciences
The authors of this study explained that the influence of citations of world scientists is often misinterpreted and in order to achieve maximum objectivity they created a publicly available database of more than 100.000 leading scientists of the world, where they used artificial intelligence principles related to the algorithm creation to look at a number of parameters important for objective evaluation of each individual scientist.
Namely, the authors especially pointed out the importance of distinguishing the concepts of the number of citations and the impact of citations. The available database contains standardized information on citations, h-index, hm-index adapted to co-authorship, citations of articles in different positions of authors in the analyzed article, and a cumulative indicator of the impact of citations.
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 scientific branches. For all scientists who have published at least 5 papers, percentages specific to the scientific field and scientific branch are also given. Data for the entire career are updated by the end of 2020.
The selection is based on the first 100.000 by c-score (with and without self-citation) or on the percentage range of 2 percent of the most cited. The methodology used during the creation of the list of scientists with the greatest citation impact was published in the scientific journal Plos Biology in 2020.
Finally, the 2 percent of scientists in the world with the highest citation impact, both in their careers and for 2020, were listed.
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Source: Klix.ba
