Prof. Anthony Hyman (left) and Prof. Kai Simons (right) Copyright: Sven Döring & MPI-CBG
Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, unveiled its 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers™. The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. Anthony Hyman, managing director at the MPI-CBG and Kai Simons, director Emeritus and one of the founding MPI-CBG directors, are among 6602 researchers from across the globe who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
331 Highly Cited Researchers™ come from Germany and 70 from the Max Planck Society. The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index, and the list identifies the research institutions and countries where they are based.
News article of the Max Planck Society: https://www.mpg.de/17862304/highly-cited-researchers