Clarivate Analytics, a leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has released its annual Highly Cited Researchers list. The citation analysis identifies the most frequently cited researchers as determined by the extent to which their papers have supported, influenced, inspired and challenged other researchers around the globe. It identifies authors who have consistently won peer approval from international researchers in the form of high citation counts.
For more than two decades the Web of Science has served as the basis for regular listings of researchers whose work is cited at a level markedly higher than average for their fields. Clarivate Analytics now presents the latest updates to these listings: the extensive roster of 2017's Highly Cited Researchers, based on work published and cited over the last decade.
Key findings show that more than 3,300 Highly Cited Researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. 130,000 papers aligned to 900 institutions were selected this year; the USA fields the highest number of authors, at 1,661, a 13% increase on the 2016 listing. The UK ranks second with almost 350 entries; China is gaining fast, in third place, with the highest increase of any nation, showing a 34% jump to 237 authors; several authors -147 in fact - are credited for Highly Cited Papers in more than one field of research. Twenty authors appear in three fields; Finland (25%) & Singapore (21%), while their respective overall totals of authors listed are less than 30, also posted notable percentage increases since 2016.
The two-part study also spotlights a ranking of Hot Papers that quickly accumulate a high number of citations soon after publication. The list of emerging research trends features 21 researchers who, since 2014, have each published at least 14 Hot Papers, according to citations tallied as of December 2016.
The methodology that determines the who's who of researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from Clarivate Analytics. It uses Essential Science Indicators, a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of Science, the premier web-based environment of scientific and scholarly research literature totalling over 33,000 journals.
2017 Highly Cited Researchers report, featuring the Hottest Papers and the researchers behind them is available at http://bit.ly/2hs7nzp.
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