Six QUT researchers have earned the distinct honour of being named a 2018 Highly Cited Researcher.
The list identifies the world’s most influential scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers during the past decade.
Two of QUT’s researchers from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation are recognised for cross discipline projects, with substantive influence across several fields.
- Distinguished Professor Dietmar W Hutmacher – regenerative medicine
- Associate Professor Dale Nyholt – genetics, statistics and neurosciences
“I’m extremely proud to be named as one of the 75 Australian-based highly cited researchers in the new cross-field category,” Associate Professor Nyholt (pictured right) said.
“The listing provides important recognition of my substantive influence across several fields.”
The four other researchers are based at QUT’s Science and Engineering Faculty.
- Professor Dmitri Golberg – nanotechnology
- Professor Kevin Burrage – computational mathematics and computational biology
- Professor Fawang Liu – computational mathematics and applied mathematics
- Professor Ian Turner – numerical, computational and applied mathematics.
QUT’s researchers join a growing number of Australian researchers recognised as highly cited in the essential science category with the numbers from researchers more than doubling in four years, from 80 in 2014 to 170 in 2018.
The Web of Science serves as the basis for regular listings of researchers whose citation records position them in the top 1% by citations for their field and year.
The methodology that determines the who’s who of high-impact researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from the Institute of Scientific Information at Clarivate Analytics.
Annette Thomas, CEO of the Scientific & Academic Research group at Clarivate Analytics warmly congratulated the researchers on their appearance in this year’s list.
“Congratulations to your distinguished group of researchers at QUT,” she said.
“The advancement of scientific endeavor represents a critical activity for individual research institutions and entire nations.”
The full Highly Cited Researchers 2018 list and executive summary can be found online at https://clarivate.com/hcr/.
The 2018 list contains 6,078 highly cited researchers - 4,058 from 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences and 2,020 highly cited researchers identified as having exceptional performance across several fields.
About Web of Science
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