Professor Ian Gould has been ranked in 6th place worldwide in the Scholar GPS category of research into Antimicrobial Stewardship, building on 2024 and 2025 rankings of 19th for research into Antibiotics.
The ranking is based on publication quality, impact factors and citations.
ScholarsGPS examines more than 30 million scholar profiles from more than 120 thousand institutions worldwide with detailed speciality designations, key metrics, rankings, and publications. Their latest Highly Ranked Scholars™ list contains those authors whose Top Percentage Ranks places them in the top 0.05 % of all scholars due to their lifetime scholarly contributions in the following four categories: Overall (All Fields), with respect to their specific Field, with respect to their specific Discipline, and with respect to all Specialties with which they are associated.
Professor Gould said: “Antimicrobial stewardship has been my main area of research and clinical practice for fifty years, so it is gratifying to have my small success in this critical but difficult area of medical practice acknowledged internationally.
“I am very grateful to all my excellent collaborators over the year, locally, nationally and internationally
“With the evolution of antimicrobial resistance, governments have become increasingly concerned about antimicrobial stewardship, so I expect this subject to gain further in importance.”
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