Stanford University Researchers Released their Analyses from Citation Data on Top 8 Million Scientists!

Please is the message I received from them. I have not figured out what you can do with this data from Stanford University.

Seems like their data sets (of 100,000 top-cited scientists across all disciplines) can be valuable for those who like to mine and share some trends in special discipline or country!!!

Happy mining of 100,000 top-cited scientists across all disciplines!

Please share if you find some insights.

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Subject: [EXT] Warm congratulations - updated databases on citation indicators in PLoS Biology/Mendeley

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:26:07 +0000

From: John Ioannidis <[email protected]>

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Dear colleagues and friends

Warm congratulations on being among the most-cited authors in your discipline. We have created an update of our analyses from citation data on all 8 million scientists who have published at least 5 papers in their career. Detailed data on multiple citation indicators with and without self-citations for the 100,000 top-cited scientists across all disciplines and also for the top-cited 2% of scientists in each of 174 different subfield disciplines are available for open use in https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw in Mendeley. The update has been published in PLoS Biology this week (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918).

We have tried to make improvements and enhancements on the datasets based on feedback received on the previous iteration of these analyses that we had published in PLoS Biology last year. If you receive this e-mail, it means that your citation indicators are at the very top values, i.e. in a very small select subset of the already select database of the top-cited scientists.

With best wishes for continued success

John Ioannidis, Kevin Boyack, Jeroen Baas

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John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc

C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention

Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, and (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics

Co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)

Director, PhD Program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research

Stanford University

https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis

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