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Derby Academics ranked among most cited scientists

3 March 2021

Academics at the University of Derby have been ranked amongst the most highly-cited scientists in the world, according to research by Stanford University.

Eight Derby staff are featured in the top 160,000 cited scientists out of seven million scientists worldwide in the research, which analysed data across 22 disciplines over a period of ten years, between 1996 and 2019.

Stanford University and Elsevier have created the database of 160,000 top scientists, providing data on the global influence of academic study using a variety of impact metrics such as: citations, h-index and the co-authorship hm-index. Data was analysed for career-long and single year (2019) impact.

Eight current staff from Derby are included in the top 4% of scientists (based on the citation year 2019):

Staff from Derby included in the top 2% of scientists as data-based across their career, until the end of 2019, are:

Professor Clare Brindley, Dean of Research at the University of Derby, said: “It is excellent to see high-quality researchers at Derby recognised in such a prestigious ranking."

“At the University of Derby, we nurture and encourage research excellence across all our disciplines and career stages. Our researchers are generating distinctive, world-leading and impactful research, which we use to inspire and inform our students.”

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