January 25, 2016

Thomson Reuters Announces the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds



(January 25, 2016)  Citation analysis reveals a who's who of researchers with global scholarly impact

The Intellectual Property (IP) and Science business of Thomson Reuters, announces the release of "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds," a citation analysis identifying the scientists—as determined by their fellow researchers—who have made the  most significant global impact within their respective field of study.

The two-part study includes an 11 year assessment of research paper citations to determine the leaders within 21 broad fields of science and a ranking of 2015’s  top scientists or  “hottest researchers,” revealing significant growth in cancer genomics and improvements in converting solar cells into renewable energy.

The report draws on data and analysis performed by Thomson Reuters IP & and Science bibliometric experts via  InCitesTM Essential Science IndicatorsSM, the world’s leading web-based research analytics platform and a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of ScienceTM, the premier web-based environment for scientific and scholarly research.

The longer-range study, widely known as the Highly Cited Researchers, recognizes nearly 3,000 scientists who published the greatest number of articles ranking among the top one percent by citations received in their respective fields in each paper’s year of publication. Analysts assessed more than 120,000 papers indexed between 2003 and 2013 throughout each area of study.

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