Tuesday, August 30, 2005

20 Most Cited Scientists in Clinical Medicine

From In-Cites:

This month, in-cites presents a listing of the top 20 scientists who, as of the latest bimonthly update of the ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product, attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in ISI-indexed journals of Clinical Medicine over the past 10 years. These names are the top 20 out of a pool of 14,101 scientists comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count in this field.

Heading up this top 20 list is Dr. Meir Stampfer, with 376 papers cited a total of 30,739 times to date. Dr. Stampfer’s research interests are mainly focused on the etiology of chronic diseases, and his highly cited papers in Clinical Medicine provide ample evidence of this interest. His most-cited papers focus on the risk Dr. Walter Willett factors for cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. Dr. Stampfer is Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts...

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