Still recovering from the shock of this news!!!! Amazed!! Eleven researchers in Irish universities named on list of world’s top 3,000 DICK AHLSTROM Eleven researchers based in Irish universities have been ranked among the world’s top 3,000 by the multinational media body Thompson Reuters. Inclusion means the person’s research is listed in the top 1 per cent for the number of times their work has been cited by other scientists. The list includes scientists and engineers in NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and the University of Ulster. All were gauged to be “highly cited researchers” who had had an “exceptional impact”, Thompson Reuters said. Their work “has consistently been judged by peers to be of particular significance and utility”, the company said when releasing the list on the website highlycited. Those selected will also be published in book form, the Thompson Reuters 2014 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds . Inclusion in this publication means the researcher is among those “who are on the cutting edge of their fields. They are performing and publishing work that their peers recognise as vital to the advancement of their science.” Academics NUI Galway has three academics on the list: Henry Curran (engineering), Colin O’Dowd (geosciences) and Donal O’Regan (mathematics). TCD has two: Luke O’Neill (immunology and also pharmacology and toxicology) and Jonathan Coleman (materials science). UCD also has two: Colm O’Donnell (agricultural sciences) and Desmond Higgins (computer science). UL has Michael Zaworotko (chemistry), UCC has John Cryan (pharmacology and toxicology), Beaumont Hospital has Mary Cannon (psychiatry and psychology) and University of Ulster has Brendan McCormack (social sciences). The use of citation listings as a measure of research quality has sometimes been drawn into question but it remains a widely used metric despite this. Its strength lies in the fact that it reflects later access to the research by scientists working in the same area. If your paper is truly cutting edge then others will want to cite the original work within their research papers. ‘Huge testament’ Prof O’Neill yesterday expressed his delight at having been named on the list. “Being included in the top 1 per cent of anything is great,” he said. He described it as a “huge testament” to the work of his research team over the past decade. Prof Coleman also praised the students and post-doctoral researchers who work with him in the lab, and thanked funding bodies including TCD and Science Foundation Ireland. “Without them this would have been impossible,” he said. See more at irishtimes
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:09:50 +0000
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