Professor Juarez L. F. Da Silva (IQSC-USP), leading researcher of CINE in the Materials and Chemistry Computing Science program, is one of the 100,000 most prominent scientists in the world with respect to the impact of his publications and citations, according to ranking published in October of this year in the periodical Plos Biology (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He is part both of the list which assesses this impact during his career (more precisely between 1997 and 2020), and in the ranking which considers only 2019.

The ranking results from the application of a compound index, which contemplates a set of indicators and adjustments to make the results more objective and equitable than in the assessment by only one of the currently existing metrics (number of publications, citations, h-index etc.). To put together the ranking of researchers, the authors used Scopus, the largest database of scientific literature reviewed by peers.

The study selected, in addition to the 100 thousand scientists from all areas of knowledge, the most influential 2% in their fields, always according to the index comprised of citations. In total, approximately 160 thousand researchers in the work are in the lists. From these, 853 are from Brazilian institutions, among them, CINE’s researcher. The spreadsheets with the names that make up the ranking and all the data used to prepare it were posted on https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2. The compound index was developed in 2016 by a researcher from Stanford University with collaborators of a company dedicated to studies on the world of research.

Professor Juarez L. F. Da Silva graduated from the Goiás Federal University, has a Master’s in Science from São Paulo University and doctorate in Natural Sciences from Berlin Technical University and the Fritz-Haber Institute from the Max-Planck Society (Germany). He acted as researcher in the Juelich Research Center (Germany), in Humboldt Berlin University (Germany) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (United States). He is currently professor of Chemistry of the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos, of São Paulo University. He works in the area of Computing Science of Material and Chemistry. He earned a scholarship in productivity in research from CNPq level 1B.