A prominent Aberdeen academic has been recognised by a leading scientific website as one of the best scientists in the world.
ISIHighlyCited.com has listed Professor Roger Pertwee, who is one of the world’s leading cannabinoid scientists, among the most cited scientists.
Professor Pertwee is Professor of Neuropharmacology in the University of Aberdeen’s School of Medical Sciences and he and the late Professor Hans Kosterlitz, and Professor William Wisden, Chair of Neuroscience at the University's School of Medical Sciences, are the first University of Aberdeen scientists to appear on the prestigious web list. There are currently 32 Scottish scientists listed and 355 English scientists.
ISI is the group that publishes Current Contents and Web of Science. On ISIHighlyCited.com, it lists the most cited scientists in all disciplines who publish in cited journals together with their CVs and bibliographies.
There are around 4,500 researchers on this database and these comprise less than one half of one percent of over five million researchers indexed by ISI.
Professor Pertwee said he was delighted to be recognised as one of the most cited international scientists: “It is nice to know that my papers are read by other scientists and considered worth citing in their papers,” he said.
Professor Pertwee has been involved in cannabinoid research for over 30 years and is the author of over 300 publications. He is a Past President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and is frequently consulted about the therapeutic potential of cannabis and cannabinoids by parliamentary committees and leading medical organisations.
He has held a Personal Chair in Neuropharmacology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, since 1999. He is currently International Secretary of the International Cannabinoid Research Society, of which he is also a Past President, and was a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Working Party on Therapeutic Uses of Cannabinoids. In addition, he has just been elected Chairman of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine.
A frequent broadcaster, he has written numerous papers and delivered many invited conference presentations on the pharmacology of cannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors, most recently at the BA Festival of Science in Dublin.