The scientific portal www.research.com 10 Best Medical Scientist Ranking contains one of the researchers dealing with the topic of mental health. .This is Ronald Kessler and the area of his research is psychiatric epidemiology and the risk factors for mental illness.
The ranking methodology used scholars’ respective h-index, proportion of their contribution to their field of study, as well as their awards and achievements.The h-index, combined with the total number of citations were used to rank scholars in the descending order.
The H-index and citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academics which is the largest open bibliometric database. The discipline h-index is estimated by considering only the publications deemed to belong to the considered discipline. The ranking contains h-index, collected through December 6th, 2021.
The rating of the scientists in the “Medicine” section is headed by Walter Willet, an American physician and nutrition researcher.
The fourth is Ronald Kessler, a sociologist and professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Much of his work in the latter studies involves his work in the Precision Treatment of Mental Disorders initiative developing and implementing precision treatment models to determine the right interventions for the right patients. His most cited work is “Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication” (2005).
The Neuroscience Rank is led by Trevor Robbins from Cambridge. He is also the most influential scientist in the world in the field of psychology. Robbins has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology. His work is mainly focused on the functions of the frontal lobes of the brain. His most cited work is “Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion” (2005).
The 2nd (in both “Neuroscience” and “Psychology”) is Raymond Dolan from University College London. Dolan is one of the founders of the Neuroimaging Center in London. His most cited article is titled “Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain” (2004).
Bruce McEwen (1938-2020) is on the third position in the world ranking of neuroscientists and on the first position among neuroscientists in the USA. McEwen is an American neuroendocrinologist who is known for his work on the effects of environmental and psychological stress, having coined the term “allostatic load”. His most cited article is “Protective and harmful effects of stress mediators” (1994).
The Neuroscience Ranking also contains other famous names, such as:
- Robert Sapolsky (287th in the world, 175th in the USA),
- Joseph Ledoux (28 in the world, 16 in the USA),
- Dick Swaab (113 in the world, 1 in the Netherlands),
- Antonio Damasio (11 in the world, 71 in the USA),
- Chris Frith (8 in the world, 4 in the UK)
There are 13 scientists from the USA, 5 from the UK, 1 from Sweden and 1 from Australia in the top twenty most influential experts in the field of neuroscience.
Author: Filippov Dmitry
Editing: Fedorchenco Vecheslav