Seven Greek academics appear in the Thomson Reuters corporation’s 2016 list of the World’s 3,000 Most Influential Scientific Minds.
The list provides a yearly acknowledgement to those scientists who “have made the most significant global impact within their respective field of study”, based on an analysis of the number and quality of citations each receive.
Most of the scientists on the list come from the world’s top universities, notably from the United States, but also from Britain, Germany, China and Australia.
The Greeks who were distinguished among thousands of peers around the world are Dimitra Daferera and Moschos Polissiou of Athens Agricultural University; Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos and Gerasimos Filippatos of Athens Medical School, IT professor George Karagiannidis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and National Technical University of Athens professors Dimitris Rakopoulos and Constantinos Rakopoulos.
