How to build a publishing career and gain the status of a leading scientist in the world? Interview with David Georgievich Zaridze

Abstract

   In mid-2024, the Research.com Medicine platform published a ranking of the world's leading scientists based on the citation rate of their publications in various databases, including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The criteria for including scientists in the ranking were the value of the so-called D-index (disciplinary Hirsch index), which takes into account the volume of the publication portfolio and citation indicators in a particular field, as well as the awards and achievements of researchers. The established threshold of the D-index guaranteed the possibility of identifying a cluster of "1% of the world's leading scientists" in each subject area. In the field of medicine, the status of the world's leading scientist was received by David Georgievich Zaridze, oncologist-epidemiologist, professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Anti-Cancer Society of Russia, Head of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology of the Research Institute of Clinical Oncology Federal State Budgetary Institution "N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology".