Professor Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević is among the 2% of the most influential researchers in the world

Professor Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević from the Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, was among the two percent of the most influential researchers in the world. Professor Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević is at the very top of world science, according to the list of Stanford University, which was published in October 2020.

This ranking contains a database of 100,000 top scientists classified in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. The ranking methodology is based on a number of criteria, among which the most significant are the number of independent scientific papers, the number of papers in which the scientist is the first author, the number of citations of those papers, etc.

Professor Kotur-Stevuljević is from Smederevo, and she graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1995, and in 2007 she defended her doctorate. She studied in Slovenia, and in 2018 she became a full professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy.

She has published a total of 141 scientific papers and 84 presentations at international and domestic conferences. These papers, according to data from the reference index database Scopus, have been cited 1611 times so far, 1284 without auto citations. She was a reviewer in several international journals, according to her biography on the website of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

As part of her scientific research, she participated in various research related to medical biochemistry, especially the role of oxidative stress in the development of atherosclerosis (atherosclerosis is a disease of clogged arteries. It is the third most common disease in the world, after viral diseases of the upper respiratory tract and periodontitis). The disease is also called a "silent killer" because it causes accelerated aging of blood vessels and shortens life.)

Professor Kotur-Stevuljević was an associate on several projects in the field of basic research funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

Source: Nova.rs

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