2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science) (Computer Science)

The list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers is revealed exclusively by experts from the Institute for Scientific Information [1]. According to Web of Science [2], the list includes pioneers in their disciplines, as proven by numerous highly-cited articles that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year. It has been almost a decade since the Highly Referenced Researchers list was established to identify researchers and social scientists throughout the world who have made an impact on their fields via the publishing of many publications widely cited by their peers. This article reviews Web of Science studies from Computer Science perspective. A total of 111 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 China. Figure 2 represents the exact number of researchers according to their locations.

Figure 3 represents the selected researchers according to their affiliations.  As we can see from figure 3, most of the researchers in the top 1% of most Influential Scientists (i.e. total 5) are from King Abdulaziz University and Swinburne University of Technology.

Table 1: List of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (WoS) (Computer Science)

First Name	Last Name	Primary Affiliation	Country
U. Rajendra	Acharya	Ngee Ann Polytechnic	Singapore
Ian F.	Akyildiz	TRUVA Inc.	United States
Ibrahim	Aljarah	University of Jordan	Jordan
Jeffrey G.	Andrews	University of Texas Austin	United States
Mehdi	Bennis	University of Oulu	Finland
Emil	Björnson	Linkoping University	Sweden
Rajkumar	Buyya	University of Melbourne	Australia
Xingjuan	Cai	Taiyuan University of Science & Technology	China Mainland
Giuseppe	Caire	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
Jinde	Cao	Southeast University - China	China Mainland
C. L. Philip	Chen	South China University of Technology	China Mainland
Jinjun	Chen	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Min	Chen	Huazhong University of Science & Technology	China Mainland
Xiaofeng	Chen	Xidian University	China Mainland
Francisco	Chiclana	University of Granada	Spain
Zhihua	Cui	Taiyuan University of Science & Technology	China Mainland
Linglong	Dai	Tsinghua University	China Mainland
Merouane	Debbah	Universite Paris Saclay	France
Yong	Deng	University of Electronic Science & Technology of China	China Mainland
Zhiguo	Ding	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
Mianxiong	Dong	Muroran Institute of Technology	Japan
Yucheng	Dong	Sichuan University	China Mainland
Maged	Elkashlan	University of London	United Kingdom
Zubair Md.	Fadlullah	Tohoku University	Japan
Hossam	Faris	University of Jordan	Jordan
Giancarlo	Fortino	University of Calabria	Italy
Hamido	Fujita	University of Granada	Spain
Erik G.	Larsson	Linkoping University	Sweden
Amir H.	Gandomi	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
Xiaohua	Ge	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Mohsen	Guizani	University of Idaho	United States
Song	Guo	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
Harald	Haas	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom
Yuki	Hagiwara	Hochschule Esslingen	Germany
Qing-Long	Han	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Zhu	Han	University of Houston System	United States
Lajos	Hanzo	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
Debiao	He	Wuhan University	China Mainland
Robert W.	Heath	North Carolina State University	United States
Francisco	Herrera	University of Granada	Spain
Enrique	Herrera-Viedma	University of Granada	Spain
Ekram	Hossain	University of Manitoba	Canada
Guang-Bin	Huang	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Kaibin	Huang	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Thomas J. R.	Hughes	University of Texas System	United States
Yaochu	Jin	University of Surrey	United Kingdom
Nei	Kato	Tohoku University	Japan
Neeraj	Kumar	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
Arun	Kumar Sangaiah	Vellore Institute of Technology	India
Victor C. M.	Leung	Shenzhen University	China Mainland
Geoffrey Ye	Li	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
Hongyi	Li	Guangdong University of Technology	China Mainland
Jin	Li	Guangzhou University	China Mainland
Xuelong	Li	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China Mainland
Yongming	Li	Liaoning University of Technology	China Mainland
Huchang	Liao	Sichuan University	China Mainland
Chong	Lin	Qingdao University	China Mainland
Yan-Jun	Liu	Liaoning University of Technology	China Mainland
Yuanwei	Liu	Queen Mary University London	United Kingdom
Wenjing	Lou	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	United States
Majdi	Mafarja	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
Luis	Martinez	Universidad de Jaen	Spain
Thomas L.	Marzetta	New York University	United States
Seyedali	Mirjalili	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
Andreas F.	Molisch	University of Southern California	United States
Derrick Wing Kwan	Ng	University of New South Wales Sydney	Australia
Hung	Nguyen-Xuan	China Medical University Taiwan	Taiwan
Zhaolong	Ning	Chongqing University of Posts & Telecommunications	China Mainland
Dusit	Niyato	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Kaoru	Ota	Muroran Institute of Technology	Japan
Ju Hyun	Park	Yeungnam University	South Korea
Mugen	Peng	Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications	China Mainland
H. Vincent	Poor	Princeton University	United States
Lianyong	Qi	Qufu Normal University	China Mainland
Timon	Rabczuk	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
Kim-Kwang	Raymond Choo	University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)	United States
Kui	Ren	Zhejiang University	China Mainland
Walid	Saad	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	United States
Robert	Schober	University of Erlangen Nuremberg	Germany
Ling	Shao	Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence	United Arab Emirates
Xuemin (Sherman)	Shen	University of Waterloo	Canada
Peng	Shi	University of Adelaide	Australia
Ponnuthurai N.	Suganthan	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Xingming	Sun	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	China Mainland
Tarik	Taleb	Aalto University	Finland
Jen Hong	Tan	National University of Singapore	Singapore
Dacheng	Tao	University of Sydney	Australia
Shaocheng	Tong	Liaoning University of Technology	China Mainland
Athanasios V.	Vasilakos	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
Shaohua	Wan	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
Huanqing	Wang	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
Ping	Wang	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Qingqing	Wu	University of Macau	Macau
Zheng-Guang	Wu	Zhejiang University	China Mainland
Yang	Xiang	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Xiaolong	Xu	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	China Mainland
Zeshui	Xu	Sichuan University	China Mainland
Xin-She	Yang	Middlesex University	United Kingdom
Fei	Yu	Shenzhen University	China Mainland
Sherali	Zeadally	University of Kentucky	United States
Xiangxiang	Zeng	Hunan University	China Mainland
Yong	Zeng	Southeast University - China	China Mainland
Jianming	Zhan	Hubei Minzu University	China Mainland
Haijun	Zhang	University of Science & Technology Beijing	China Mainland
Rui	Zhang	National University of Singapore	Singapore
Xian-Ming	Zhang	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
Xuyun	Zhang	Macquarie University	Australia
Yan	Zhang	University of Oslo	Norway
Xiaoying	Zhuang	China Medical University Taiwan	Taiwan
Quan	Zou	University of Electronic Science & Technology of China	China Mainland

References:

1. https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/highly-cited-researchers-2021-executive-summary/?fbclid=IwAR1c6DfTBFYei4Xl1gbCvwWI_8kXpXWhSIiZhgS5MO-2Fq5pH6i2cKv13I4
2. https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/

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