Professor Peter Robinson ranked in the top 2% of scientists in their fields worldwide, based on a Stanford University study of citation indices
An article reporting research by John Ioannidis of Stanford University “Updated science-wide databases of standardized citation indicators”, published in the open access journal PLOS Biology (2020), presents the first science-wide analysis of citations across all scientists and scientific disciplines. The article lists those scientists in the top 2% of most widely cited and influential scientists within their fields based on their career-long citation impact up to the end of 2019. Eleven researchers from Aoyama Gakuin University are included in this listing of the top 2% most widely cited scientists worldwide, and Professor Peter Robinson is ranked 2nd of those. Those included, in order of ranking of their citation impact, are:
| Furukawa, Nobuo | Department of Physics and Mathematics |
| Robinson, Peter | Department of English |
| Shigesato, Yuzo | Department of Chemistry and Biological Science |
| Takeuchi, Yasuhiro | Department of Physics and Mathematics |
| Mitsunobu, Oyo | Department of Chemistry |
| Takeuchi, Ryo | Department of Chemistry and Biological Science |
| Shimoyama, Junichi | Department of Physics and Mathematics |
| Yoneyama, Jun | Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
| Kubo, Kenn | Department of Physics and Mathematics |
| Yoneyama, Satoru | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Sotobayashi, Hideyuki | Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
Their fields and subfields of scientific research are:
| Furukawa, Nobuo | General Physics | Applied Physics |
| Peter Robinson | Languages & Linguistics | Experimental Psychology |
| Shigesato, Yuzo | Applied Physics | Materials |
| Takeuchi, Yasuhiro | Applied Mathematics | Evolutionary Biology |
| Mitsunobu, Oyo | Organic Chemistry | Developmental Biology |
| Takeuchi, Ryo | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
| Shimoyama, Junichi | General Physics | Applied Physics |
| Yoneyama, Jun | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Kubo, Kenn | General Physics | Applied Physics |
| Yoneyama, Satoru | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Materials |
| Sotobayashi, Hideyuki | Optoelectronics & Photonics | Optics |
The link to the article in PLOS Biology where it can be freely downloaded with the databases is:
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918
