{"id":80427,"date":"2016-03-01T14:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=80427"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:05:18","slug":"sph-researchers-among-worlds-most-influential-minds","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2016\/sph-researchers-among-worlds-most-influential-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"SPH Researchers Named \u2018World\u2019s Most Influential Minds\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"MostEight researchers from Boston University, five of them with School of Public Health appointments, are among \u201cthe world\u2019s most influential scientific minds,\u201d according to the 2015 Thomson Reuters list of most-cited researchers.<\/p>\n

Dean Sandro Galea<\/a> is listed in the category of “Social Sciences, General.”<\/p>\n

The “Clinical Medicine” category includes four SPH professors:<\/p>\n

Martin Larson<\/a> is research professor of biostatistics at SPH, research professor of mathematics & statistics at the College of Arts & Sciences, and research associate professor of medicine at the School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Emelia J. Benjamin is professor of epidemiology at SPH and professor of medicine at MED.<\/p>\n

Ralph B. D\u2019Agostino Sr. is professor of epidemiology at SPH, professor of mathematics & statistics and executive director of the biostatistics program at CAS, and professor at the School of Law.<\/p>\n

Vasan S. Ramachandran is professor of epidemiology at SPH and professor and chief of the MED Section of <\/span>Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a wonderful recognition of the outstanding contributions that these members of our faculty have made toward advancing the field of public health,\u201d says Michael McClean<\/a>, associate dean for research and faculty advancement.\u00a0\u201cAs a school, we aim to be among \u2018the world\u2019s most influential,\u2019 and are inspired by their accomplishments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The “Clinical Medicine” category also includes Professor Alice K. Jacobs of MED. The “Psychiatry\/Psychology” section includes Stefan G. Hofmann and Michael W. Otto, both CAS psychology professors.<\/p>\n

Using citation data from 2003 to 2013, Thomson Reuters compiled the list of almost 3,000 researchers who published the greatest number of articles ranking among the top 1 percent by citations in respective fields in each paper\u2019s year of publication.<\/p>\n

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