Funding: Malaria citations
9 June 2006
Malaria researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust occupy three of the top five places in a recently published citation 'league table'.
Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators tracked more than 14 500 authors in 134 countries to identify the most influential malaria researchers – those whose work (published during 1995–2005) is cited most often by their peers.
Professor Kevin Marsh, Director of the KEMRI (Kenya Medical Research Institute)-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, was second on the list, and his colleague Professor Bob Snow was fifth. Professor Nick White, Director of the Wellcome Trust's South-east Asia Major Overseas Programme, occupied third spot. Two other Trust-funded researchers – Professor Adrian Hill (University of Oxford) and Dr François Nosten (of the South-east Asia Programme) also made the top ten.
Over the past ten years the Wellcome Trust has spent £200 million on malaria research, mainly through its research units in Kenya, Malawi, Thailand and Vietnam.
