A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era

A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era

When it comes to influential neuroscience research, University College London (UCL) has a lot to boast about. That's not the opinion of a human but rather the output of a computer program that has now parsed the content of 2.5 million neuroscience articles, mapped all of the citations between them, and calculated a score of each author's influence on the rest.

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