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Genomics platform director tops Thomson Reuters’ list of highly cited authors
Stacey Gabriel, Director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has been named “hottest researcher” in Thomson Reuters’ list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015. Published annually, the list recognizes scientists (in 21 broad fields, see Figure 1) whose work has “consistently wielded outsized influence in the form of citations from fellow scientists” (1).
Thomas Reuters analysed citation data from its Web of Science and InCites platforms to determine which researchers’ published works are most cited by their peers. ‘Highly cited’ papers comprised the top 1 percent, with the top 0.1 percent being ‘hot papers’. As well as shining the spotlight on leaders and innovators, the list also highlights growing or emerging trends within the scientific community.
Figure 1. Highly cited authors broken down by field. Source: Thomson Reuters Web of Science & InCites.
“We are pleased to recognize the world’s most influential scientific minds; the innovators forging a path toward a brighter tomorrow," said Vin Caraher, President of Thomson Reuters IP & Science.
Gabriel, known for her work on the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, came top for the second consecutive year with 25 papers cited. In fact, the field of genomics was particularly well represented, taking seven of the Top 19 spots – six of them from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (see Table 1). Sadly, no chemists made it onto the leaderboard, but scanning the top-cited authors in the “Chemistry” section, we did come across a few names you may recognize from our own 2015 Power List (http://tas.txp.to/0116/PowerList): R Graham Cooks, Chad Mirkin, Joseph Wang and George Whitesides...
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Table 1. The 19 top authors with multiple “hot” papers according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science & InCites.
