November 2018, 11, Highly Cited Researchers 27, a global information service company on academic information, intellectual property, and life sciences, has been cited in many other papers. Announced the year edition.
This presentation, which is now in its fifth year, identifies influential researchers who have been continuously highly evaluated for more than 5 years by citation analysis, and cites the paper based on the paper data of Web of Science *. Top 10% authors by number are selected.There are various reasons and backgrounds for citations of papers, but most of them are a manifestation of respect for previous research by researchers in the same industry.Citations are a way for researchers to prove past research that has important implications for their research, and articles with significantly higher citations are a guide to the scientific community's judgment that they are meaningful and useful. Become.
Highly Cited Paper Authors In the 2018 edition, more than 21 highly cited paper authors were selected in 4,000 research fields in the natural and social sciences.The largest number is 2,639 in the United States, 546 in the United Kingdom, and 482 in China.Elections from China are increasing, surpassing Germany to rank third.3 people were selected from Japan, with the largest number being 90 from RIKEN, followed by 12 from the University of Tokyo.
* Web of Science is an internet online database of citation information provided by Clarivate, the world's largest company.Over 1900 billion citation indexes dating back to 14 in the fields of science, social sciences, arts and humanities are used by millions of users per day, including major governments, academic institutions and R & D companies.