Thursday, 11 November 2021 Our researchers are ranked on the Elsevier scale of the most frequently cited authors

We are very proud to announce that the names of researchers from UP Famnit and UP IAM are on the list of the most cited scientists and researchers in 2020, published by Elsevier in October this year.

Elsevier, a global information analytics business, has created a publicly accessible database of more than 100,000 top scientists. This year, our researchers also occupy high places on the scales for evaluating research performance and scientific publications, where only 2% of the best scientists are ranked.

There are 165 scientists coming from Slovenia on a sigle year impact scale for most frequently cited authors in 2020, among them also researchers from UP Famnit and UP IAM, prof. dr. Dragan Marušič, prof. dr. Štefan Bojnec, prof. dr. Marko Tkalčič, prof. dr. Andreja Kutnar and prof. dr. Tomislav Levanič.

In addition to the 2020 single year impact scale, prof. dr. Dragan Marušič also occupies a place on the career scale, which includes 147 scientists from Slovenia.

The use of measurements for the contextual impact of publications has become very widespread in recent years, but analysts often face various challenges in obtaining relevant data. Some questions relate to what citations and related metrics fundamentally mean and how they can be (mis)interpreted as a measure of impact or excellence. Many other problems are of a technical nature and reflect lack of standardization and accuracy on various fronts.

For reasones stated above, an extensive database of a sufficiently large number of most-cited scientists across science was created. Scopus data was used to compile a database of the 100,000 most-cited authors across all scientific fields based on their ranking of a composite indicator that considers six citation metrics (total citations; Hirsch h-index; coauthorship-adjusted Schreiber hm-index; number of citations to papers as single author; number of citations to papers as single or first author; and number of citations to papers as single, first, or last author).

Source data and metric description are available here.

Congratulations to all our researchers and we wish you great success on your further research journey!