Awards

In the 6th edition of the Stimulus to Individual Scientific Employment Competition (CEEC), promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), 2 COPELABS researchers were awarded funding for a 6-year researcher contract.

Funding was awarded to Dushantha Jayakody as an assistant researcher and Milos Stankovic as a principal investigator for an Individual CEEC.

Three COPELABS researchers have been ranked among the most influential researchers in the world according to a database created by Journal Plos Biology. The study carried out at Stanford University, in the USA, is published every year and assesses researchers in two different perspectives: one assessing scientists for career-long citation impact and another assessing scientists for single-year impact up until the end of 2020. The list of most influential researchers in 2023 includes Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Slavisa Tomic, and Marko Beko. The database lists the 100,000 most influential scientists in the world, according to the composite citation index and other criteria. In addition, the list also includes scientists who are not in the top 100,000 according to the composite index but are nevertheless within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline. According to the database, citation metrics are widely used, but not always correctly. For this reason, Plos Biology created a publicly available database that features the 100,000 leading scientists on the planet, considering standardized information on citations, h index, multi-author hm index, citations of articles in different authoring positions and a composite indicator. In this database, the separate data is shown for impact throughout the career and single year. Also according to the document, “metrics are provided with and without self-citations and proportion of citations for cited articles. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. Field and subfield specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least five articles.

In the 5th edition of the competition run by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), Milos Stankovic, professor at Lusófona University and researcher at the COPELABS Research Unit, won an Individual CEEC as an assistant researcher.

Three COPELABS researchers have been ranked among the most influential researchers in the world according to a database created by Journal Plos Biology. The study carried out at Stanford University, in the USA, is published every year and assesses researchers in two different perspectives: one assessing scientists for career-long citation impact and another assessing scientists for single-year impact up until the end of 2020.
The list of most influential researchers in 2022 includes Slavisa Tomic, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, and Marko Beko. The database lists the 100,000 most influential scientists in the world, according to the composite citation index and other criteria. In addition, the list also includes scientists who are not in the top 100,000 according to the composite index but are nevertheless within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline.

In the 2021 FCT Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus Copelabs has been awarded 1 Junior Researcher position.

Two DEISI/COPELABS professors have been ranked among the most influential researchers in the world according to a database created by Journal Plos Biology. The study carried out at Stanford University, in the USA, is published every year and assesses researchers in two different perspectives: one assessing scientists for career-long citation impact (Table-S6-career-2020) and another assessing scientists for single-year impact up until the end of 2020 (Table-S7-singleyr-2020).
The list of most influential researchers in 2020 includes Prof. Marko Beko and Prof. Slavisa Tomic. The database lists the 100,000 most influential scientists in the world, according to the composite citation index and other criteria. In addition, the list also includes scientists who are not in the top 100,000 according to the composite index but are nevertheless within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline.
According to the database, citation metrics are widely used, but not always correctly. For this reason, Plos Biology created a publicly available database that features the 100,000 leading scientists on the planet, considering standardized information on citations, h index, multi-author hm index, citations of articles in different authoring positions and a composite indicator. In this database, the separate data is shown for impact throughout the career and single year.
Also according to the document, “metrics are provided with and without self-citations and proportion of citations for cited articles. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. Field and subfield specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least five articles. The data for career-long citation impact will be updated by the end of 2020 “.