Meet Canada’s most influential scientist

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Salim Yusuf is being hailed as Canada's most influential scientist, according to a new report compiled by data and media company Thomson Reuters. Yusuf isn't alone: four of Canada's top ten most cited researchers are at the University.


McMaster cardiologist Salim Yusuf is being celebrated in national media as “Canada’s most influential scientist” based on citations.

Yusuf, director of the University’s Population Health Research Institute, has had nine of his studies among the world’s most cited in recent years.

The Globe and Mail newspaper broke down the numbers contained in a new report which tries to estimate who’s making the biggest impact in science worldwide.

The report, compiled by data and media company Thomson Reuters, not only indicates Yusuf’s influence, but that of others at McMaster.

“Dr. Yusuf is not an isolated success but merely the tallest spire within a cluster of the world’s most highly cited clinical researchers at McMaster,” reports the Globe. “Among Canada’s top 10 scientists across all fields, four are based there.”

Earlier this year, Yusuf was named recipient of the prestigious Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, given to outstanding leaders in Canadian medicine.

In April, he was inducted into Canada’s Medical Hall of Fame.

“To me, he represents McMaster, period,” John Kelton, dean and vice-president, health sciences, told the Globe and Mail. “We’re an upstart medical school, 40 years old, but we have always been considered, to our knowledge, one of the most innovative.”

Read the full Globe and Mail story here.