Earlier this year, French physician and microbiologist Didier Raoult generated a media uproar over his controversial promotion of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The researcher has long pointed ...

Many scientists worry that theirs isn't big enough. Even those who sniff that size isn't everything probably can't resist taking a peek to see how they compare with their rivals. The truly desperate ...

Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is the best measure of a scientist’s worth the total number of his ...

Drexel Materials Professor Yury Gogotsi, PhD, whose research as founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has ...

At the end of last year, the journal Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, in the UK, decided to stop publishing an online ranking that was popular with readers. It was the ...

With an h-index of 75, computer scientist Thippa Reddy Gadekallu ranks among the world’s most highly cited researchers. But the speed and means of his ascent to those lofty heights of scholarship has ...

Eminent scientist Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, popularly known as Dr CNR Rao, has become the first Indian to reach the h-index of 100, reflecting the enormity of the body of his published ...