Five University of Connecticut professors person been named to a database of the world’s astir highly cited researchers.
The 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list, released precocious by Clarivate and the Web of Science index, uses some quantitative and qualitative investigation to place individuals from astir the satellite who person demonstrated important and wide power successful their chosen tract oregon fields of research.
The database of Highly Cited Researchers is drawn from the highly cited papers that fertile successful the apical 1 percent by citations for tract and work twelvemonth successful the Web of Science citation scale implicit the past decade. The database besides identifies the probe institutions and regions wherever they are based.
The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws connected the information and investigation performed by bibliometric experts and information scientists astatine the Institute for Scientific Information astatine Clarivate.
The UConn module connected the database are:
- Robin Chazdon, prof emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology successful the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a subordinate of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Yangchao Luo, subordinate prof successful the Department of Nutritional Sciences successful the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
- Vijay A. Rathinam, subordinate prof of immunology and manager of the Graduate Program successful Immunology astatine the UConn School of Medicine
- George Weinstock, prof of genetics and genome sciences astatine the UConn School of Medicine and Professor, Evnin Family Chair and Director of Microbial Genomics astatine The Jackson Laboratory
- Zhe Zhu, adjunct prof of distant sensing successful the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment successful the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
Rathinam was named to the database for the 4th twelvemonth successful a enactment portion Chazdon, Weinstock, and Zhu were named for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a row.
The methodology that determines the listings draws connected the information and investigation performed by the Institute for Scientific Information astatine the Web of Science Group.
The information is taken from 21 wide probe fields wrong Essential Science Indicators. The fields are defined by sets of journals and exceptionally, successful the lawsuit of multidisciplinary journals specified arsenic Nature and Science, by a paper-by-paper duty to a tract based connected an investigation of the cited references successful the papers. This percentile-based enactment method removes the citation vantage of older papers comparative to precocious published ones, since papers are weighed against others successful the aforesaid yearly cohort.
Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company, organizes the world’s probe accusation to alteration academia, corporations, publishers and governments to accelerate the gait of research. It is powered by Web of Science, the world’s largest publisher-neutral citation scale and probe quality platform.
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