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York Professor enters the global top one per cent of most cited scientists

York Professor enters the global top one per cent of most cited scientists

Posted on 20 November 2024

Professor Simon Gilbody has been recognised in the top one per cent of the world’s most influential published scientists.

Professor Simon Gilbody

Clarivate™, a global provider of data, insights & analytics, have announced the 2024 scientists and social scientists, who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field of research.

Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers™ which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year in the Web of Science™ over the past decade.

Mental health spin-out

Professor Simon Gilbody is an internationally recognised authority on brief scalable solutions to problems such as anxiety and depression. During COVID his research team tracked the impacts of lockdown on the mental health of the population, and most recently, together with colleagues at Hull York Medical School and Health Sciences, he co-founded the University’s first mental health spinout – Third Age Therapeutics – to enable the advances made at York to be delivered at scale.

Professor Gilbody said: “This is a great honour and a testament to the collective strength of psychology, mental health and population science at York. It is nice to see my team’s research so widely cited and recognised in this way, as we continue to be driven by the need to tackle the epidemics of mental ill health and loneliness.”

Top 2% Scientist Rankings

The news comes off the back of other recent successes from across the University, including researchers who were featured in Stanford/Elsevier's latest Top 2% Scientist Rankings. The Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings list is based on citations from 2022, updated to the end of 2023 and uses metrics like h-index, co-authorship adjustments, and a composite citation score (c-score), which reflects a scientist’s influence rather than just their publication count.