Research published by University of Eastern Finland scientists has impact in many different fields, according to a Stanford University study published in PLOS Biology this August. The study explored the impact of the world’s 100,000 top scientists across all scientific fields. At the University of Eastern Finland, scientists representing clinical medicine in particular stand out on the list, and other fields with great impact include biomedical research, forest sciences, biology, environmental science and physics. All in all, 57 University of Eastern Finland scientists are ranked in the top 100,000 or so, when looking at their career-long impact. A list of the scientists and their fields can be found here. According to the UNESCO Science Report, there were 7.8 million full-time equivalent researchers in the world in 2013.
The openly accessible database published by Stanford University contains data on 100,000 top scientists across all scientific fields. The database provides standardised information on, for example, citations, h-index, co-authorship and citations to papers in different authorship positions. Separate data are provided for single-year (2017) and career-long impact. For the latter, the database uses Scopus citation data over 22 years (from 1996 to 2017). For papers published from 1960 until 1995, the citations received in 1996–2017 are also included in the calculations, providing a measure of long-term performance, and for most living, active scientists, reflecting their career-long impact.
The study by Stanford University is available as an open access article at https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384