However, when people were asked who they would trust in relation to information and advice in relation to volcanic events, scientists came out at the top of the list with 66%% of respondents ranking scientists as the most trustworthy.
One of his favorite Web sites, scienceheroes.com, ranks scientists by the number of lives that were saved by their invention.
"The long-term goal of the awards is to create a pipeline of scientific support in which established scientists choose the most outstanding young faculty-rank scientists, who then go on to mentor the next generation of would-be scientists and award winners," said Ellis Rubinstein, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences.
The h-index is employed in the bibliometric literature as a merely descriptive measure, that can be used to rank scientists or institutions where scientists work.
Cohen is one of three researchers to win the inaugural Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, which seek to recognize America's "most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers" under the age of 43.
Beyond structural properties of such networks, such as short distances and heavy-tailed degree distributions, these networks have been used to rank scientists and also identify communities (i.e., scientists working on similar fields of study) and different patterns of collaboration between different fields of study.
We show that a recently proposed index designed to rank scientists fairly is in fact strongly biased against female researchers, and advocate a modified index to assess men and women on a more equitable basis.
After a stint as the Navy's top-ranking scientist, Dr. Piore joined the International Business Machines Corporation in 1956 as director of research.
And the panel recommended that the agency appoint a high-ranking scientist to set priorities and move money between the agency's far-flung research programs.
Calhoun is responsible for the preservation of equipment and materials and the welfare of research personnel, and after the accident plunges Black Mesa into a warzone, he must work with Dr. Rosenberg, a high-ranking scientist involved in the experiment, to evacuate the facility.
I think the most important reason is that the impact-factor-led hierarchy of journals has provided a simple mechanism for ranking a scientist's worth, and this system is now so embedded in our culture that we believe we cannot function without it.
