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Academic Publishing and Open Access

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Michael Gusenbauer
Johannes Kepler University of Linz
2
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Singulus (Germany)
3
Manoj Kumar L.
St. Thomas Hospital
4
Audrey Culver Smith
University of Florida
5
Diana Kwon
Diakonie Deutschland
6
Rachel Heyard
Prevention Institute
7
Leigh-Ann Butler
Bühler (United Kingdom)
8
Melika Mosleh
University of Birmingham
9
Amber Dance
Independent Dance
10
Tatiana Marina
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Rising Stars Papers

1
Beyond Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: An evaluation of the backward and forward citation coverage of 59 databases' citation indices
Research Synthesis Methods|2024
114 cit.
2
How to search for literature in systematic reviews and meta-analyses: A comprehensive step-by-step guide
Technological Forecasting and Social Change|2024
78 cit.
3
Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split
Nature|2025
67 cit.
4
Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at AI use
Nature|2024
49 cit.
5
The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Nature|2024
34 cit.
6
Design differences and variation in results between randomised trials and non-randomised emulations: meta-analysis of RCT-DUPLICATE data
BMJ Medicine|2024
28 cit.
7
AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond?
Nature|2024
17 cit.
8
AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them
Nature|2024
17 cit.
9
The citation black market: schemes selling fake references alarm scientists
Nature|2024
16 cit.
10
Combining deep learning and machine learning techniques to track air pollution in relation to vegetation cover utilizing remotely sensed data
Journal of Environmental Management|2025
15 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Siddhartha Roy
Virginia Tech
2
Julián A. Ferreras
National University of Misiones
3
Jacob Reimer
Baylor College of Medicine
4
Anisha P.S.
Government Medical College
5
Jacob Hughey
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
6
Zach Hensel
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica
7
Daniel Duma
Trinity College Dublin
8
Hyoungjoo Park
Chungnam National University
9
Adam Hembree
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
10
Davor Virag
University of Zagreb

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Bibliometric Analysis for Medical Research
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine|2022
257 cit.
2
Conformational changes in the essential E. coli septal cell wall synthesis complex suggest an activation mechanism
Nature Communications|2023
33 cit.
3
NSF Fellows’ perceptions about incentives, research misconduct, and scientific integrity in STEM academia
Scientific Reports|2023
25 cit.
4
NEURD offers automated proofreading and feature extraction for connectomics
Nature|2025
23 cit.
5
Cortical acetylcholine dynamics are predicted by cholinergic axon activity and behavior state
Cell Reports|2024
17 cit.
6
The phers R package: using phenotype risk scores based on electronic health records to study Mendelian disease and rare genetic variants
Bioinformatics|2022
12 cit.
7
Sex Inclusion in Transcriptome Studies of Daily Rhythms
Journal of Biological Rhythms|2022
12 cit.
8
Considering Some Negative Implications of an Ever-Decreasing U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Blood Lead Threshold and “No Safe Level” Health Messaging
Environmental Science & Technology|2023
10 cit.
9
LimoRhyde2: Genomic analysis of biological rhythms based on effect sizes
PLoS ONE|2023
10 cit.
10
Did a nocebo effect contribute to the rise in special education enrollment following the Flint, Michigan water crisis?
Clinical Psychology in Europe|2023
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Tal Yarkoni
The University of Texas at Austin
2
Emilio Delgado López‐Cózar
Universidad de Granada
3
Paul Wouters
Leiden University
4
Nader Ale Ebrahim
University of Malaya
5
Vincent Larivière
Université du Québec à Montréal
6
Weishu Liu
Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
7
Bo‐Christer Björk
Hanken School of Economics
8
Jonathan Adams
Web Science Trust
9
Mike Thelwall
University of Sheffield
10
John P. A. Ioannidis
Innovative Research (United States)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
PLoS Medicine|2005
10.5k cit.
2
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
CHANCE|2005
4.8k cit.
3
Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data
Nature Methods|2011
4k cit.
4
Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach
Journal of Animal Ecology|1992
3.9k cit.
5
Graphical methods and numerical summaries for presenting results from multiple-treatment meta-analysis: an overview and tutorial
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology|2010
3.8k cit.
6
A manifesto for reproducible science
Nature Human Behaviour|2017
3.5k cit.
7
Promoting an open research culture
Science|2015
2.8k cit.
8
A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases
Asian Social Science|2013
1.9k cit.
9
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories
Journal of Informetrics|2018
1.8k cit.
10
Increasing value and reducing waste in research design, conduct, and analysis
The Lancet|2014
1.6k cit.

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