Meir Stampfer - publishing genius

One of the aims of scientists and researchers is to publish their work. This way, other scientists and researchers read it, enjoy it and then use their published works to illustrate their own - thus etching your name further into the annals of history.

For some, a couple of papers are quite enough to keep the university or research centre happy, others, however, prefer to churn out papers and have them posted all around the world.

Meir Stampfer is one of those researchers that falls into the bracket of ‘churners’. He is currently top of the science charts according to the ISI Essential Science Indicator, a site that contains over 40 million articles and offers bi-monthly updates that rank institutions, countries and individuals over the last 10 years.

Dr. Stampfer, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, at present has 385 papers that have been cited over 32,717 times in various other publications. His area of expertise covers the cause or origin of chronic diseases, and his most-cited papers are specialised in particular on the risk factors for cardio-vascular disease and cancers.

In some of his other work, Stampfer and colleagues have shown a significant protective effect, both in men and women, of the powers of alcohol in reducing the risk of coronary heart disease. If we are going to toast anyone this Christmas, we should also raise a glass to the man who says raising a glass is good for us.

Journal Facts:

According to ISI, there are about 8,500 journals in the areas of science, technology and the social sciences alone. Plenty to choose from when publishing! See http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/about for more info