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Australians in
most cited list
Chinese researchers powering ahead
in terms of global influence.
M
ore than 100 Australian academics have made it onto a
global list of the most highly cited researchers.
The 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers
list identifies authors who have consistently won approval from
their peers, and reveals the academics who are top in their field
based on the extent to which their papers have influenced others
around the world.
This year’s list features 127 Australian authors, including 20 from
the University of Melbourne, 15 from the University of Queensland
and eight from the University of Sydney.
The most notable institutions on the list were Harvard
and Stanford universities in the US with 109 and 40 entries
respectively, followed by Germany’s Max Planck Society with 47,
and the Chinese Academy of Science with 45.
Clarivate Analytics’ senior citations analyst David Pendlebury
said the rise in China’s output of publications and its increasing
influence were visible in the report.
“What we are now seeing is China’s increasing presence
among most cited authors and papers, especially in the physical
sciences,” he said.
“This year, the number of Chinese scientists in the Highly
Cited Researchers list is 237 – 34 per cent more than last year.
“That makes the nation third in number of highly cited
researchers behind the US and UK. China’s output of materials
science papers is now more than twice that of the US, and it is
capturing a greater and greater share of top cited papers in the
field. In some fields, China has not only caught up, but it is now
powering ahead.”
There were 130,000 papers selected from 900 institutions in
the report this year.
The US was most prominent, with 1661 authors and a 13 per
cent increase since last year.
The UK came in second with almost 350 entries, while
China’s third place with 237 authors and growth of 34 per
cent was the highest increase in any nation.
The full version of the Highly Cited Researchers list can be
found at https://clarivate.com/hcr/. ■
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