Seven scientists from Freiburg are among the 6,600 authors who have been cited most frequently worldwide in their fields of research over the past decade. The "Highly Cited Researchers 2021" ranking is compiled by the company Clarivate Analytics and is an important indicator of the influence of scientists and their publications. It is based on an evaluation of the most frequently cited papers in the literature database "Web of Science."
Two scientists from the University of Freiburg are represented: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus and Prof. Dr. Carsten Dormann. Jürgen Bauhus heads the Chair of Silviculture and is spokesman for the Institute of Forest Sciences. Together with his team, he conducts research on the development dynamics of forests, carbon and nutrient cycles, and the function of tree species and structural diversity, among other things. He is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board on Forest Policy, which provides the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture with scientifically validated options for policy decisions.
Carsten Dormann heads the Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on the comparison and development of methods in statistical ecology, for example for the analysis of ecological networks.
The following from the Medical Center - University of Freiburg and the University Heart Center in Bad Krozingen also placed in the ranking: Prof. Dr. Jörg Meerpohl, Director of the Institute for Evidence in Medicine at Medical Center - University of Freiburg and Director of the Cochrane Germany Foundation. Together with his team, he is developing new ways of making scientific findings available to physicians more quickly, soundly and comprehensibly in reviews. Prof. Dr. Marco Prinz, Medical Director at the Institute of Neuropathology at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg, and Dr. Ori Staszewski, a specialist at the Institute of Neuropathology, are investigating the role of the immune system in the healthy brain and its involvement in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and brain tumors. Among other things, they are researching the influence of nutrition and epigenetics on the formation of the immune system in the brain. Dr. Lukas Schwingshackl is a working group leader at the Institute for Evidence in Medicine at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany. He evaluates studies on the influence of nutrition on health using methods of evidence-based medicine and develops new methods for future nutrition guidelines.
In addition, Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Neumann is also one of the most cited researchers. He is Medical Director of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology II at the University Heart Center at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg, is an expert in the field of interventional cardiology and first author of a Europe-wide guideline for the treatment of occluded coronary vessels.
About the ranking
The company Clarivate Analytics determines the names of the "Highly Cited Researchers" on the basis of the most cited publications in the literature database "Web of Science." The ranking includes the authors of research papers that belong to the top one percent in the Web of Science citation index. Papers published and cited in the period from January 2010 to December 2020 were considered in 2021. In total, the ranking lists more than 6,600 researchers from over 70 countries and 21 disciplines.
Ranking "Highly Cited Researchers 2021"
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