28 USI researchers in the top 2% of most cited authors

Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University created a standardised index of the most influential researchers and published the results in the journal PLOS Biology. Several parameters, including the total number of citations and h-index, were taken into account for this calculation, leading to the calculation of an aggregate index. The source data are those found in the Scopus database run by the publisher Elsevier based on editorial choices about which fields and journals to include and which are, therefore, not representative of all scientific production. Research published in PLOS Biology identified the most influential authors by considering the 100,000 scientists with the highest aggregate score and those in the top 2% in 174 subdisciplines. Università della Svizzera italiana and affiliated institutions are featured 28 times; below are the names with the subdiscipline considered by the research in parentheses:  Cesare Alippi, professor at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence IDSIA USI-SUPSI (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing) Angelo Auricchio, professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences (Cardiovascular System & Hematology) Gabriele Bavota, professor at the Faculty of Informatics (Software Engineering) Andreas J. Bircher, professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences (Dermatology & Venereal Diseases) Michael Bronstein, professor at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence IDSIA USI-SUPSI (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing) Dan Ciresan, a former researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence IDSIA USI-SUPSI (Artificia