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  • Date: 2026-08-21 22:10:53

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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-08-21 and was most recently seen on 2026-08-21.

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Prof. Robert Geoffrey "Geoff" Richards FLSW FBSE FIOR FORS FTERM is the Executive Director Research & Development for the AO Foundation and director of AO Research Institute Davos at the AO Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) and several academic Societies as well as an honorary Fellow Aberystwyth University. He was co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the eCM “free to all” scientific journal. In 1999, eCM was one of the first open access scientific journals in the world. The main advantages of the new journal were transparency with high standards of review, rapid publication, author retention of copyright, as well as remaining free and open access. Within eCM he also initiated the transparent review process.
Richards has supervised over 50 PhD's, Masters and medical thesis's. He has helped mentor 9 of the AO Research Institute Davos to achieve professorship status in various universities globally. He is responsible for ~120 personnel plus visiting scientists and clinicians. He is author on over 350 peer-reviewed papers and has 2 granted patents. His Google Scholar h-index is 75. He is ranked among the most-cited scientists in the world regardless of scientific discipline.

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