Kent State Scientist Honored for “Hottest Research Worldwide”
Kent State Department of Physics Research Associate Dr. Mikhail Kopytine, recently was ranked as the second most cited scientist world-wide for 2005-2006 by the periodical Science Watch.
Kopytine shares the second-place ranking with six other scientists. Three physicists are listed among the eight scientists with rankings of first or second; Kopytine is the only physicist from a United States institution listed in the top two slots.
The Science Watch ranking relies entirely on citations, making it completely objective. To determine the rankings, Science Watch tracks the number of citations received by scientists in fields ranging from immunology to biostatistics in papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Kopytine works in collaboration with other physicists at Kent State’s Center for Nuclear Research, which is part of a large international collaboration (deemed STAR) that studies nuclear collisions at Brookhaven National Lab. The Kent State group was among the six groups to found STAR, which has grown to include 52 institutions representing 12 countries.
Kopytine earned a doctorate in physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook and has been a Kent State research associate since 2001. Kopytine will give a physics colloquium/Center for Nuclear Research Seminar at 3:30 p.m., April 10, on the Kent Campus. His talk will be geared toward physicists.
Visit http://phys.kent.edu for more information about Kopytine and the Science Watch ranking. Kopytine is available at 631-344-7603.
To learn more about STAR, go to www.kent.edu/Magazine/Winter2006/index.cfm