Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.
J Forensic Sci. 2023 May;68(3):723-730. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.15231. Epub 2023 Mar 16.
The most highly cited forensic practitioners in the United States were identified using a publicly available citation database that used six different citation metrics to calculate each person's composite citation score. The publication and citation data were gleaned from Elsevier's SCOPUS database, which contained information about ~7 million scientist each of whom had at least five entries in the database. Each individual was categorized into 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields, one of which was legal and forensic medicine (LFM). The database contained citation records for 13,388 individuals having LFM as their primary research discipline and 282 of these (2%) were classified as being highly cited. Another 99 individuals in the database had LFM as their secondary discipline, making a total of 381 highly cited forensic practitioners from 35 different countries. The career-long publication records of each individual were compared using their composite citation scores. Of the 381 highly cited scientists, 93 (24%) had an address somewhere in the United States. The various branches of forensics they specialized in were anthropology, criminalistics, DNA/genetics, odontology, pathology, statistics/epidemiology, and toxicology. The two most highly cited scientists, according to their composite citation score, were both specialists in DNA/genetics. Bibliometric methods are widely used for evaluating research performance in academia and a similar approach might be useful in jurisprudence, such as when an expert witness is instructed to testify in court and explain the meaning of scientific evidence.
使用一个公开的引文数据库，该数据库使用六种不同的引文指标来计算每个人的综合引文得分，确定了美国最具影响力的法医学从业者。这些出版物和引文数据来自爱思唯尔的 SCOPUS 数据库，该数据库包含了大约 700 万科学家的信息，他们每个人在数据库中至少有 5 条记录。每个人都被归入 22 个科学领域和 176 个子领域，其中一个是法律和法医学（LFM）。该数据库包含了 13388 名主要研究学科为 LFM 的个人的引文记录，其中 282 人（2%）被归类为高被引者。数据库中还有 99 人将 LFM 作为次要学科，总计来自 35 个不同国家的 381 名高被引法医学从业者。使用他们的综合引文得分比较了每个人的职业长期出版物记录。在 381 名高被引科学家中，有 93 人（24%）在美国的某个地方有地址。他们专门研究的法医学分支包括人类学、犯罪学、DNA/遗传学、牙科学、病理学、统计学/流行病学和毒理学。根据他们的综合引文得分，排名前两位的最具影响力的科学家都是 DNA/遗传学方面的专家。计量方法广泛用于评估学术界的研究绩效，类似的方法在法理学中可能也有用，例如当专家证人被指示在法庭上作证并解释科学证据的含义时。
