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Clarivate Reveals World’s Influential Researchers: 2023 List is Available to View!

Clarivate  released its 2023 list of  Highly Cited Researchers™ . Their evaluation and selection process identified 6,849 researchers from institutions in 67 countries/regions who demonstrate significant influence in their field(s) of interest through their highly cited papers. For the United States this represents 2,669 highly cited researchers with a world share of 37.5%.

Curious on who made this global list from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK)?  Read on to find out!

The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

I am delighted to share that 41 researchers associated with MSK publications from this year made this prestigious list.  There were 8 researchers on the list that had previously work at the Center but had no MSK-affiliated papers for a few years.

To view these researchers and other MSK authors, check out  Synapse , the authoritative database of MSK publications, showcasing references for journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, meeting abstracts, and more.

On behalf of the  Library staff , congratulations to these researchers and to all of our distinguished authors, who through their work contribute daily to the ever-growing body of published medical and scientific literature. 

Donna Gibson Director, Library Services

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November 16, 2021 by Gary Price

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Clarivate Releases Annual “Highly Cited Researchers” List

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Clarivate unveiled its 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers™ today. The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. identifies some 6,600 researchers from across the globe who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index, and the list identifies the research institutions and countries where they are based. The key findings for 2021 show: 6,602 researchers from more than 70 countries and regions have been recognized this year – 3,774 in specific fields and 2,828 for cross-field impact. The United States is the institutional home for 2,622 of the Highly Cited Researchers in 2021, which amounts to 39.7%, down from 43.3% in 2018. While there has been a decline in the number of U.S.-based Highly Cited Researchers, there can be no doubt that the U.S. still leads the world in research influence. Of all papers indexed in the Web of Science for 2010 to 2020 the percentage with a U.S.-based author was 24.7%. Mainland China is second this year, with 935 Highly Cited Researchers, or 14.2%, up from 7.9% in 2018. In four years, Mainland China has nearly doubled its share of the Highly Cited Researchers population. The United Kingdom , with 492 researchers or 7.5%, comes in third. This is a particularly high number of researchers at the very top of their fields in terms of citation impact, given that the United Kingdom has a population 1/5 the size of the United States and 1/20 the size of Mainland China. Australia has narrowly overtaken Germany at fourth, with 332 researchers, and the Netherlands is sixth, with 207 researchers – remarkable for countries of 25 million and 17 million, respectively, versus Germany’s 83 million. They also place above Canada, France, Spain and Switzerland in the top 10. Harvard University , home to 214 researchers, is once again the institution with the highest concentration of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Hong Kong has increased its number to 79 from 60 last year, an impressive achievement, partly due to a dramatic increase in Highly Cited Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, which more than doubled its number of Highly Cited Researchers from 14 to 33 from 2020 to 2021. For the first time, researchers from Bangladesh , Kuwait , Mauritius , Morocco and the Republic of Georgia are included on the list this year. Naturally, Mainland China’s gain means losses elsewhere. There is a 1.8% loss in Highly Cited Researchers for the United States since last year and 3.6% since 2018. This contrasts with an increase of 6.3% for Mainland China since 2018. The United Kingdom exhibits a decline of .5% since last year and 1.5% since 2018. Germany has lost .9% share since 2018. [Clip] Nobel Prize recipients and researchers of Nobel quality This year’s list includes 24 Nobel laureates, including five announced this year : David Julius, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States (Physiology or Medicine); Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, United States (Physiology or Medicine); David W. C. MacMillan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States (Chemistry); David Card, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States (Economics); and, Guido Imbens, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States (Economics). Also included are 77 Citation Laureates ™: individuals recognized by Clarivate, through citation analysis, as ‘of Nobel class’ and potential Nobel Prize recipients. Exceptional broad performance Of the researchers named as Highly Cited in the 21 Essential Science Indicators (ESI)™ fields, 23 researchers showed exceptionally broad performance, recognized for being highly cited in three or more fields. They are a truly global group – in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Professor Rob Knight from the University of San Diego California was alone in being named for four ESI fields (Biology and Biochemistry; Environment/Ecology; Microbiology; Molecular Biology and Genetics). Figure 1: Highly Cited Researchers by country or region Ranking Country/Territory Number HCRs % Change % Share 2018 to 2021 1 United States 2,622 39.7 -3.6 2 China Mainland 935 14.2 6.2 3 United Kingdom 492 7.5 -1.5 4 Australia 332 5 1 5 Germany 331 5 -0.9 6 The Netherlands 207 3.1 0 7 Canada 196 3 0.3 8 France 146 2.2 -0.4 9 Spain 109 1.7 -0.2 10 Switzerland 102 1.5 -0.7 Figure 2: Highly Cited Researchers by research institution or organization Ranking Institution and Country/Region Number HCRs 1 Harvard University, United States 214 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mainland 194 3 Stanford University, United States 122 4 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States 93 5 Max Planck Society, Germany 70 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States 64 7 University of California Berkeley, United States 62 8 Tsinghua University, China Mainland 58 9 University of California San Diego, United States 56 10 University of Oxford, United Kingdom 51 [Clip] Our analysts have found continued growth in the highly cited, high-impact research from Mainland China, but the United States remains the scientific powerhouse of the world, and U.S. institutions represent five of the top ten with Harvard University at the very top of the leader board.”

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Gary Price ( [email protected] ) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.

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Press Release: Clarivate [November 15, 2022]

Clarivate names world's influential researchers with highly cited researchers 2022 list.

London, U.K., November 15, 2022 – Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers – individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their field or fields of research. The methodology draws on data from the Web of Science citation index, together with analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate.

ISI analysts have awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations to 6,938 researchers from across the globe who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research fields in the sciences and social sciences.

This year Clarivate extended the qualitative analysis of the Highly Cited Researchers list, to address increasing concerns over potential misconduct (such as plagiarism, image manipulation, fake peer review). With the assistance of Retraction Watch and its unparalleled database of retractions, Clarivate analysts searched for evidence of misconduct in all publications of those on the preliminary list of Highly Cited Researchers. Researchers found to have committed scientific misconduct in formal proceedings conducted by a researcher's institution, a government agency, a funder or a publisher are excluded from the list of Highly Cited Researchers.

David Pendlebury, Head of Research Analysis at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said: "Research misconduct is an ever-increasing concern in our world. Activities such as unusual citation activity and fake peer review may represent efforts to game the system and create self-generated status. This is why we've expanded our qualitative analysis this year to ensure the Highly Cited Researchers list reflects genuine, community-wide research influence. Our efforts are part of a wider responsibility across the whole research community to better police itself and uphold research integrity."

The key findings for 2022 show:

• 6,938 researchers from 69 countries and regions have been named this year. Some extraordinary researchers are recognized in multiple Essential Science Indicators (ESI) research fields: 219 named in two fields, 28 named in three fields and 4 named in four fields. Their achievements are truly exceptional and indicate broad, multidisciplinary influence among their peers. Overall, there are 3,981 awards in specific fields and 3,244 awards for cross-field impact, totalling 7,225 awards across all of the individual researchers named this year.
• The United States is the institutional home for 2,764 of the Highly Cited Researchers in 2022, which amounts to 38.3% of the total list, down from 43.3% in 2018. While the slow downward loss of share continues for U.S.-based Highly Cited Researchers, the U.S. clearly still leads the world in research influence.
• Mainland China is second this year, with 1,169 Highly Cited Researchers – continuing to close the gap with the U.S. In five years, Mainland China has more than doubled its share of the Highly Cited Researchers population – from 7.9% in 2018 to 16.2% this year.
• The United Kingdom comes in third with 579 researchers or 8.0%. This is a remarkably high number of researchers at the very top of their fields in terms of citation impact, given that the United Kingdom has a population 1/5 the size of the United States and 1/20 the size of Mainland China.
• Germany has pulled ahead of Australia this year – placing Germany at fourth with 369 researchers, and Australia at fifth with 337 researchers. Behind them are Canada (226), the Netherlands (210), France (134), Switzerland (112) and Singapore (106) which is new to the top 10 this year as Spain drops down.
• Harvard University, home to 233 researchers on the list, is once again the institution with the highest concentration of Highly Cited Researchers in the world. Governmental and publicly funded research organizations also feature strongly in the institutional top 10: the Chinese Academy of Sciences comes in second overall (228), narrowing the gap with Harvard, followed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (113) and Germany's Max Planck Society (67). The University of Pennsylvania has joined the top 10 this year, jumping 7 slots from number 17 in 2021.

Figure 1: Highly Cited Researchers by country/region

Figure 2: Highly Cited Researchers by research institution or organization

The full Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list and analysis can be found here .

Methodology:

The Highly Cited Researchers' names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index, and the list identifies the research institutions and countries where they are based. Our analysis is based on primary researcher affiliations, as specified by Highly Cited Researchers themselves. This year, 7,225 researcher awards from 69 countries and regions are recognized – 3,981 in specific fields and 3,244 for cross-field impact. The 7,225 Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations are issued to 6,938 individuals. The number of awards exceeds the number of unique individuals because some researchers are receiving recognition in more than one Essential Science Indicators (ESI) field of research. Our analysis of countries/regions and institutions counts designations or appearances and is thus based on the total of 7,225. These researchers were selected based on the number of highly cited papers they produced over an 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021. The methodology that determines the who's who of researchers draws on data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate. It uses InCites Benchmarking & Analytics, Essential Science Indicators and a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data from the Web of Science, the world's largest publisher-neutral citation index and research intelligence platform.

About Clarivate

Clarivate is a global leader in providing solutions to accelerate the pace of innovation. Our bold mission is to help customers solve some of the world's most complex problems by providing actionable information and insights that reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing inventions in the areas of Academia & Government, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Professional Services and Consumer Goods, Manufacturing & technology. We help customers discover, protect and commercialize their inventions using our trusted subscription and technology-based solutions coupled with deep domain expertise. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.

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Citation Rankings Highly Cited Researchers

Highly cited researchers citation rankings 2025.

The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings . This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025 , and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025 .

• World (2,395,132)
• Africa (170,445)
• Asia (685,411)
• Europe (782,465)
• Latin America (192,689)
• North America (508,046)
• Oceania (56,075)
• Arab League (129,198)
• EECA (289,436)
• BRICS (372,864)
• ASEAN (179,294)
• All Records
• Engineering & Technology (429,035)
• Medical and Health Sciences (232,150)
• Natural Sciences (312,579)
• Architecture and Design (13,895)
• Agriculture & Forestry (60,313)
• Business & Management (97,760)
• Economics & Econometrics (78,109)
• Education (61,651)
• Social Sciences (163,240)
• History, Philosophy, Theology (32,849)
• Law (39,142)
• Social Sciences and Humanities (472,751)
• Art & Humanities (90,831)
• Others (873,865)