On the other hand, the Stanford list also includes some of the best and
youngest scientists. Some of these “young researchers” with their
first publications in 2019 and 2018 are listed in Table 3. Elisabeth
Mahase from BMJ is an interesting case; she started publishing in 2019
and has already written 661 publications in 3 years while receiving 3135
citations. Elisabeth Mahase, in fact is not a scientist but a medical
journalist working for BMJ. She is a news reporter at The BMJ (British
Medical Journal). She reports on the news, not doing research. But this
Stanford list mixed news article with peer review scientific articles.
Mahase has topped most authors in scientific output, but she doesn’t
need to do any research.
Table 3 also shows various researchers who just published since 2018 but
managed to be in the list. To make this list more interesting with weird
entries, Table 4 shows some atypical authors who only had 2 years of
publication record and published 5 to 12 papers. These few curious cases
of authors in the top 2% list show the serious flaw of this Stanford
list which needs fixing, it’s broken.
Table 3. Top youngest researchers