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Three Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø IRDR academics ranked in global top 2% of scientists in their field

10 December 2020

Professor David Alexander, Professor Ilan Kelman and Dr Bayes Ahmed have been listed as the world’s top 2% of scientists in their respective fields.

David Alexander, Ilan Kelman, Bayes Ahmed

The ranking was based on that used citations from and assessed scientists for their total number of papers (1960–2019) and career-long citation (1996–2019) impact within their disciplines. The authors createdÌýÌýof the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.

Career-long impact

Professor David Alexander, with 107 Scopus-indexed publications, has been ranked 31st out of 17,157 scientists in the field of Strategic, Defence andÌýSecurity Studies. It has placed him within the top 0.18% of scientists in his main subfield discipline.

Professor Ilan Kelman, with 184 Scopus-indexed publications, has been rankedÌý78thÌýout of 17,157 scientists in the field of Strategic, Defence andÌýSecurity Studies. It has placed him within the top 0.45% of scientists in his main subfield discipline.

Year 2019 citation impact

Professor Ilan Kelman, with 184 Scopus-indexed publications, has been rankedÌý22ndÌýout of 17,157 scientists in the field of Strategic, Defence andÌýSecurity Studies. It has placed him within the topÌý0.13%Ìýof scientists in his main subfield disciplineÌýin 2019.

Dr Bayes Ahmed, with 25 Scopus-indexed publications, has been ranked 526th out of 44,176 scientists in the field of Geological andÌýGeomatics Engineering. It has placed him within the top 1.19% of scientists in his main subfield discipline in 2019.

This is an indication that Dr Bayes Ahmed is an emerging top scientist in the field of Geological andÌýGeomatics Engineering.

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Reference

  • Ioannidis, J. P., Boyack, K. W., & Baas, J. (2020). Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators.ÌýPLoS Biology,Ìý18(10), e3000918.