–Why do you think the scientists ranked Young's double-slit experiment number one?
In this survey, political scientists ranked the presidents — sometimes in surprising ways.
For two years running, Dr. Reed, the scientific director of the Burnham Institute, a cancer research center here, has been No. 1 on a list of scientists ranked by the number of "hot papers" they have published.
Most scientists rank overfishing, pollution, and warming oceans among the biggest overall contributors.
In a recent survey, nearly 90percentt of stem cell scientists ranked California as one of the top three states for their field compared with about half of the nonstem-cell scientists.
So it's no surprise that scientists rank the highest satisfaction in industry jobs that let them flex their creative muscle, giving them the freedom to pursue risky ideas and the resources to test those ideas out at top speed.
Russian soil scientists rank the deep, central Chernozems among the best soils in the world.
Asked how often she checks her various children's progress on Edline, the local schools' website that shows grades in real time, she admits: "More than I should, probably".In "Coming Apart", Charles Murray, a social scientist, ranked American zip codes by income and educational attainment.
Read as, "We've got a Ph.D. opening here, and that's the way we'd like to fill it, but we're required by human resources to show respect to those few Master of Science-level employees who have reached the scientist ranks at our company".
And Chinese scientists rank behind only their U.S. counterparts on number of publications, although they are heavily skewed toward the natural sciences compared with a more even distribution by U.S. authors across disciplines.
