The Institute for Scientific Information’s specialists shares the list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers exclusively [1]. According to Web of Science, the authors on this list are pioneers in their fields, as shown by a large number of highly referenced publications that rank in the top 1% of citations for respective fields and years of publication [2]. It’s been almost a decade since the Highly Referenced Academics list was formed to recognize researchers and social scientists worldwide who have impacted their areas via the publication of several articles that have been frequently mentioned by their peers. This article discusses the Web of Science research list in detail. A total of 6602 researchers are included in this list; Figure 1 represents the location of these researchers on the world map. As we can see that the highest number of top 1% most cited scientists are from the United States. Figure 2 represents the exact number of researchers according to their locations (greater than 20 researchers).
Figure 3 shows the affiliations of the chosen scholars. Figure 3 shows that the vast majority of the top 1% of most influential scientists are from Harvard University.
As selecting a subject is important for research, figure 4 represents the count of 1% researchers according to different subjects. Figure 5 represents the subject analysis according to the geographical location.
Table 1: List of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (WoS)
References:
- https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/highly-cited-researchers-2021-executive-summary/?fbclid=IwAR1c6DfTBFYei4Xl1gbCvwWI_8kXpXWhSIiZhgS5MO-2Fq5pH6i2cKv13I4
- https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/
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