On the list of the World's Most Influential Scientists prepared under the coordination of Stanford University, Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty Member İsmail Çakmak has achieved great success by ranking first in Turkey in all scientific fields for the last 5 years and sixth in the world in his field of study.
A group of researchers from Stanford University used the Elsevier-Scopus database to list the most influential scientists in 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The results were published in the journal PLOS Biology on September 16, 2024. In the study, which examined approximately 6 million researchers in the context of various scientific criteria, the names of 217,097 researchers were published under the Career-Long Data category, and 1,172 researchers from Turkey were included in this list.
Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty Member Prof. Dr. İsmail Çakmak ranked first in Turkey in the Career-Long Data category in all scientific fields, and 6th in the world in the field of Agriculture-Agronomy.
Prof. Dr. İsmail Çakmak has achieved great success for our country and our university by being the first in Turkey for the last 5 years in a row in the list of most influential scientists. The list covers approximately 6 million researchers, and Dr Çakmak ranked 2008th in the general world ranking.
The most influential scientists are determined by taking into account various scientific indicators such as the number of scientific articles, the number of citations they receive, the rate of self-citation, the author position in the article, the impact of the journal in which the articles are published, h-index and hm-indexes etc.
Main research areas of Dr Cakmak are the nutritional physiology of plants plants, effects of mineral nutrition on the productivity of plants under stress conditions, and the biofortification of cereal-based foods and milk with zinc, selenium, and iodine. You can access the lists and ranking indicators published by PLOS Biology by clicking the link below:
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
About İsmail Çakmak
According to the Scopus database, Prof. Dr. İsmail Çakmak, has published over 250 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, which have been cited 28,700 times according to Scopus and 52,900 times according to Google Scholar. His h-index value is 89 and 110 based on Scopus and Google Scholar data, respectively. Dr Cakmak has been also named among the highly-cited scientists by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters). He is an elected member of The Academy of Europe and The Science Academy, Turkiye, and made scientific presentations at various conferences and symposiums in 65 countries to date.
Prof. Dr. İsmail Çakmak’s Awards
- TÜBİTAK Science Award in 1999, Ankara
- IFA-Norman Borlaug Plant Nutrition Award in 2005 (Paris),
- Australia-Crawford Fund “Derek Tribe” Medal in 2007 (Canberra),
- Germany-Alexander von Humboldt Foundation “Georg Forster Research Award” in 2014 (Berlin),
- International Plant Nutrition Institute- Science Award in 2016 (Atlanta)
- World Academy of Sciences Agricultural Sciences Award in 2016 (Trieste)