Twenty-seven Iranians among the One-percent Top-Ranking Scientists of the World

Twenty-seven Iranians among the One-percent Top-Ranking Scientists of the World
Date: 8/28/2009

TUMSPR News: The director general of the center for the Research and Development of the Ministry of Health shared the news released by Thomson Reuters.

In a report by Mehr News Agency, Dr. Parviz Olia shared the news released by Thomson Reuters in ranking world scientist.

Twenty-seven Iranian scientists are among the top one-percent scientists of the world and in the medical sciences, the only three Iranian scientists are from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS).

The evaluations had been based on the world rank of the scientists, the university, scientific field and the Hirsch index, namely H-index, said Olia. As Thomson Reuters puts “A researcher (or a set of papers) has an h-index of N if he/she has published N papers that have N or more citations each. The h-index is based on Times Cited data from Web of Science [and Scoupus]. It does not include citations to books, or to non-indexed resources”.

Dr. Mohammad Abdolahi, has ranked 1321 by an h-index of 19, Dr. Mohammad-Reza Zarindast 1684 by an h-index of 20 and Dr. Ahmad-Reza Dehpour 2048 and an h-index of 15.

Noticeably, two Iranian scientists in the field of chemistry have ranked below 200. Dr. Mohammad-Reza Gandjali from University of Tehran with a remarkable world rank of 48 and an h-index of 45 and Dr. Modjtaba Shamsipour 116 by an h-index of 37 from Razi University in Kermanshah. The list of Iranian scientist announced by Dr. Parviz Oila has been written in the following table.

H-index has had its cons and pros with its advantages and disadvantages. On its advantages, Thomson Reuters itself argues that h-index is not just the number of papers, or the number of citations but it has some indication of the number of well-cited papers that is not influenced by a single highly-cited paper and on disadvantages it reasons that h-index, is dependent on the subject area considered, as well on as the time since its publication the h-index in the Citation Report reflects citations as of the most recent Web of Science weekly update, so it could vary upon subsequent analyses.

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