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