Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen and recently retired Consultant Microbiologist at for NHS Grampian, Professor Ian Gould, has been named among the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide according to the most recent 2024 ScholarGPS rankings.
ScholarGPS is a database that collates Highly Ranked Scholars across 14 broad Fields (such as Medicine, Engineering, or Humanities), 177 Disciplines (such as Surgery, Computer Science, or History), and over 350,000 Specialties (such as Cancer, Artificial Intelligence, or Ethics).
The rankings are based on research productivity (archival publications counts), impact (citation counts), and quality (h-index) independent of subjective judgments.
Professor Gould has been ranked 18th in the World in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and 19th in Antibiotic research.