A team consisting of scientists from the United States of America and the Netherlands identified the most influential scientists of the world based on variables such as number of scientific papers, number of citations, number of authors, authorship position, and citation to own paper and using a composite indicator scientific impact index.
The study classifying 161,000 top scientists of the world into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields was carried out under the coordination of Stanford University and published in the scientific journal named Plos Biology. The study was conducted on researchers who had published at least 5 papers by filtering Scopus data up to May 2020 and listed 161 thousand scientists.
Yusuf Leblebici, İsmail Çakmak, Erhan Budak, Emre Erdem, Ali Koşar, Lütfi Taner Tunç, and Yaşar Gürbüz, Faculty Members at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, S. Arzu Wasti, a Faculty Member at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Henning Stichtenoth, our Emeritus Faculty Member, and Yuda Yürüm, who we lost last year, have been included in The List of The Most Influential Scientists of The World, which included 857 scientists from Turkey.