29-Oct-2021
- Significant increase in the number of Italy's CNR scientists
(from 135 to 167, +24 per cent) included
in the new ranking of most influential scientists based on
a composite
indicator for career-long
impact score (
c-score),
introduced
in 2019 by Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford University, and
co-workers at Elsevier and SciTech Strategies.
Published
online in open access format using data
retrieved from Elsevier-owned Scopus database, the
2021 ranking
of top 2% scholars in
all fields includes 186,178 scientists (a 16.6% increase over the
159,684 researchers
listed
in 2020) along with their affiliation, c-score,
h-index, the hm-index accounting for multi-authored articles,
and other parameters taken into account to
calculate the c-score.
Opened by
Vincenzo Di
Marzo, a chemist working in Naples ranked 487th, the
ranking includes 167 researchers
associated with Italy's Research Council. Few of them, including
Giacomo
Rizzolatti and Tullio Pozzan, are actually University professors
who work or worked in association with CNR research institutes. A few
other
scientists in the list, such as for example
Claudio Bianchini,
have retired.
The new ranking includes
28
women who work (or worked) at CNR research institutes (within
brackets the position in the ranking and place of work):
Leonarda Liotta (36,893,
chemist, Palermo),
Lucia
Flamigni
(40,339, chemist, Bologna),
Maria Laura Di Lorenzo
(52,111, chemist, Napoli),
Anna
Maria Venezia (55,253, chemist, Palermo),
Elena
Paoletti (68,300, biologist, Firenze),
Giovanna Barbarella
(79,479, chemist, Bologna),
Cecilia Gotti
(79,954, life scientist in medicine, Milano),
Stefania Maggi
(80,153, life scientist in medicine, Padova),
Liana Fattore
(82,238, life scientist in medicine, Cagliari),
Francesca Mallamaci
(96,321, life scientist in medicine, Reggio Calabria),
Maria Losurdo
(103,776, chemist, Bari),
Osvalda
Sennaca (122,764, engineer, Napoli),
Marcella Chiari
(124,631, chemist, Milano),
Angela
Altomare (126,786, physicist, Bari),
Rosaria Ciriminna
(128,492, chemist, Palermo),
Rosa
Lasaponara (137,208, engineer, Potenza),
Maria Giovanna Buonomenna
(139218, chemist, Cosenza),
Valeria
Di Sarli (140011, engineer, Napoli),
Simonetta Paloscia
(142954, agronomist, Firenze),
Raffaella
Calarco (144141, chemist, Rome),
Eleonora Borgia
(163809, engineer, Pisa),
Paola
Reichenbach (164,922, geologist, Perugia),
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
(171,220, engineer, Napoli),
Maria
Teresa Buscaglia (174,476, chemist, Genova),
Gloria Bordogna
(175,762, physicist, Milano),
Anna
Formica (176,629, engineer, Roma),
Alessia Ligresti
(176,940, chemist, Napoli),
Claudia
Belviso (178,530, geologist, Potenza).
Remarkably, and in agreement with the findings of the study "
How
self-determination of scholars outclasses shrinking public research lab
budgets, supporting scientific production: a case study and R&D
management implications" published in
Heliyon earlier
this year, more than half (54 per cent) of the aforementioned female
researchers work
in research institutes based in
southern
Italy.
One of them is the new entrant
Rosaria
Ciriminna, from Palermo's the Institute of nanostructured
materials.
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