Department of Safety Engineering

Dr hab. Eng. Anna Bluszcz, Professor of Silesian University of Technology, and dr Eng. Magdalena Tutak were among 44 scholars from Silesian University of Technology ranked among the most influential 2% of scientists in the world in terms of accepted citation rates of their publications. This is the third edition of a study launched in 2019 based on publications in the journal PLOS Biology by authors from Stanford University, Elsevier and SciTech Strategies.

The ranking includes the names of 2% of scientists ranked based on accepted indicators for evaluating scientific output, such as Hirsch index, number of citations, Impact Factor, and role and position in the list of authors.

The ranking is divided into two lists. On the first list (Table-1-Authors_career), covering the scientific achievements from the entire period of professional work of the scientist, there is dr Eng. Magdalena Tutak, while in the second table (Table-1-Authors_singleyr), concerning only the year 2020, Dr hab. Eng. Anna Bluszcz.

We congratulate the distinguished ladies and wish them further success.

The full list of scientists and the article in the journal Plos Biology, in which the above classification was proposed, are available here.