London Met’s top highly-cited academics, according to global data News

Celebrated scholars’ research and project work has been referenced frequently this year, consolidating their expertise on the global stage

Date: 17 December 2024

Recent data reveals several London Met academics classify as highly cited scholars, across various sub-fields of expertise. Scientists are grouped into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields and ranked by c-score, a composite citation index including H-index and 5 other bibliometric indicators.

The following academics are considered within the top 2% of the world’s top 200,000 cited scholars in their field according to the recent metrics on citations:

• Arvind Upadhyay
• Anil Kumar 
• Jameel M. Inal
• Louise Ryan 

Additionally – Priyanka Ganguly is in the top 2.18% and Bal Virdee is within the top 2.76%.

Beyond the overall statistics, many of London Met’s academics have been given a percentile rank and flagged as high performing within the ‘Specialist Field’ category of the data, also referred to as ‘sub-field 1’ by Stanford/Elsevier.

Researchers are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields based on Science-Metrix's established classification, drawing from Scopus data provided by Elsevier.

The ranking is based on citations from 2024, updated to the end of 2023 and uses metrics like h-index, co-authorship adjustments, and a composite citation score (c-score) demonstrating the impact of the researchers' work rather than solely the publication count.

More top performing academics cited in the rankings include:

• Arvind Upadhyay (sub-field: Business and Management) 1,493/57,191= top 2.61% (PR 97.39%)
• Bal Virdee (sub-field Networks and Telecommunications) 2,170/206,482= top 1.05% (PR 98.95%)
• Jameel M. Inal (sub-field Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) 2,153/208,384= top 1.03% (PR 98.97%)
• Louise Ryan (sub-field Sociology) 115/11,359= top 1.01% (PR 98.99%)
• Priyanka Ganguly (analytical Chemistry) 1,206/122,576= top 0.98% (PR 99.02%)
• Anil Kumar (Business and Management) 356/57,191= top 0.62% (PR 99.38%)

London Met would like to congratulate its academic staff on this recognition – we are proud that these respected colleagues are highly cited and included in the 2024 Stanford-Elsevier ranking.