In this post, we look at the rankings of the world’s leading longevity experts. These rankings are based on research by Expertscape, a company that objectively ranks people and institutions by their expertise in more than 30,000 biomedical topics. According to their global longevity expert survey, Jan Vijg is ranked at 18.
On what basis is Jan Vijg ranked?
Expertscape believes that no one is an expert at anything unless they are actively investigating longevity science, are at the leading edge of knowledge, and are publishing their research in respected journals.
How are experts ranked?
Experts are ranked according to the quality and quantity of their publications. Expertscape examines all medical publications that are indexed in the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. They rank the expertise of each author according to the number and type of articles that each expert has authored on the specific condition, disease, or treatment of interest to you.
This ranking method identifies experts who have a variety of backgrounds. For example, experts that they identify may be ranked highly because they conduct and publish clinical research into your condition, write reviews that are based on analysis of other researchers’ work on your condition, or author articles on the scientific underpinnings of your condition.
Jan Vijg
As a professor and Chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Jan Vijg, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1987. His research focuses on the molecular genetic changes that are associated with aging and how the instability of the genome and epigenome has long been linked to causing cancer and the loss of organ and tissue function associated with aging. His research team was the first to develop a transgenic animal model that would be used to study mutations in human genes and how they affect aging in a living organism.
Who are the world’s leading experts from 1 to 50?
- Partridge, Linda
- Franceschi, C
- Bartke, A
- Dillin, Andrew
- de Cabo, R
- Seluanov, Andrei
- Gorbunova, V
- Gladyshev, Vadim N
- Madeo, F
- Kennedy, Brian
- Kroemer, G
- Wang, Meng C
- Barzilai, Nir
- Longo, Valter
- Vaiserman, A
- Kaeberlein, M
- de Magalhães, João P
- Vijg, Jan
- Caruso, Calogero
- Fontana, Luigi
- Antebi, Adam
- Buffenstein, R
- Flatt, Thomas
- Christensen, Kaare
- Brunet, Anne
- Miller, Richard
- Mair, William
- Moskalev, A A
- Lamming, Dudley W
- Accardi, G
- Austad, S
- Monaghan, P
- Garagnani, P
- Brown-Borg, H
- Willcox, Bradley J
- Sinclair, David
- Murphy, Coleen T
- Niedernhofer, L
- Slagboom, P
- Maklakov, A A
- Deelen, J
- Puca, Annibale
- Bernier, M
- Anderson, Rozalyn M
- Verdin, Eric
- Ferrucci, L
- López-Otín, Carlos
- Lemaître, J-F
- Carmona-Gutierrez, D
- Perls, Thomas
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Researched by: Bongane Nxumalo
