Symbol of Wisdom
In the testament to the quality of scientific research and
education, three Greek academics have, recently, been ranked among the world’s
most influential scientific minds.
A Greek man even topped the list of the most influential
academics of the world. Christodoulos
Stefanadis, a professor of cardiology at the Medical School of the University
of Athens, ranked first on the list with a total of 3.079 publications
The next Greek in the rankings was Dimosthenis Panagiotakos,
a professor of Biostatistic Research and Methods of Epidemology at the Harokopio
University of Athens with 2.432 publications
Professor Meletios Athsnsios Dimopoulos, the Dean of the
National Kapodistrian University of Athens and Professor of Oncology ranked 16th
on the lost with 2.358 publications.
The list also includes, other prominent Greek researchers,
such as Nectarios Benekos at CERN and
Aristides Tsastsakos a professor of Toxicology at the University of Crete, with
1.007 and 989 publications respectively.
Every year Thomson Reuters releases a list of the
world’s most influential scientific
minds, which includes academics, and scientists whose work has had the most
significant impact in their fields worldwide.
The academics are ranked according to trusted data collected
from the world’s leading research platforms
This data includes the number of scholarly papers published
by each academic, how many times their papers have been cited by others and the
influence of their research in their respective fields.
It is not the first time that Greek academics have left their
mark on such a prestigious list, showing the high academic standards of Greece.
In 2020, eleven Greek researchers ranked among the most
highly cited scientists in the world, whereas in 2018, five professors from the
National Kapodistrian University of Athens were included on a similar list
based on their total number of references globally.
After a year full of debates about the level of high
education in Greece due to the report about the
bad conduct in its universities, such a number of honoured Greek academics
c0onfirms the high level of studies in Greece
Greek universities have oftent been deemed to be among of
the nest worldwide in the past
years, In 2019, Greece’stwo largest
universities ranked among the top ten percent of all the univer0sities of the
world.
According to the publication and Performance ranking of
Scientific Papers for the world, released this year the National Kapodistrian
University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki were ranked among
the top ten percent of 4.000 highest education institutions around the world. . .
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