Institute for Scientific Information deepens qualitative evaluation of annual listing to enhance detection of gaming, misconduct
LONDON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a world chief in offering trusted info and insights to speed up the tempo of innovation, at the moment revealed its 2022 listing of Highly Cited Researchers™ – people at universities, analysis institutes and business organizations who’ve demonstrated a disproportionate stage of serious and broad affect of their discipline or fields of analysis. The methodology attracts on information from the Web of Science™ quotation index, collectively with evaluation carried out by bibliometric consultants and information scientists on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ at Clarivate.

ISI analysts have awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations to six,938 researchers from throughout the globe who demonstrated important affect of their chosen discipline or fields over the past decade. The listing is actually world, spanning 69 nations or areas and unfold throughout a various vary of analysis fields within the sciences and social sciences.
This yr Clarivate prolonged the qualitative evaluation of the Highly Cited Researchers listing, to handle growing issues over potential misconduct (reminiscent of plagiarism, picture manipulation, faux peer evaluate). With the help of Retraction Watch and its unparalleled database of retractions, Clarivate analysts looked for proof of misconduct in all publications of these on the preliminary listing of Highly Cited Researchers. Researchers discovered to have dedicated scientific misconduct in formal proceedings performed by a researcher’s establishment, a authorities company, a funder or a writer are excluded from the listing of Highly Cited Researchers.
David Pendlebury, Head of Research Analysis on the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate stated: “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 present:
- 6,938 researchers from 69 nations and areas have been named this yr. Some extraordinary researchers are acknowledged in a number of Essential Science Indicators™ (ESI) analysis fields: 219 named in two fields, 28 named in three fields and 4 named in 4 fields. Their achievements are really distinctive and point out broad, multidisciplinary affect amongst their friends. Overall, there are 3,981 awards in particular fields and three,244 awards for cross-field impression, totalling 7,225 awards throughout all the particular person researchers named this yr.
- The United States is the institutional residence for two,764 of the Highly Cited Researchers in 2022, which quantities to 38.3% of the overall listing, down from 43.3% in 2018. While the gradual downward lack of share continues for U.S.-based Highly Cited Researchers, the U.S. clearly nonetheless leads the world in analysis affect.
- Mainland China is second this yr, with 1,169 Highly Cited Researchers – persevering with to shut the hole with the U.S. In 5 years, Mainland China has greater than doubled its share of the Highly Cited Researchers inhabitants – from 7.9% in 2018 to 16.2% this yr.
- The United Kingdom is available in third with 579 researchers or 8.0%. This is a remarkably excessive variety of researchers on the very prime of their fields by way of quotation impression, on condition that the United Kingdom has a inhabitants 1/5 the scale of the United States and 1/20 the scale of Mainland China.
- Germany has pulled forward of Australia this yr – inserting 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 highest 10 this yr as Spain drops down.
- Harvard University, residence to 233 researchers on the listing, is as soon as once more the establishment with the best focus of Highly Cited Researchers on the planet. Governmental and publicly funded analysis organizations additionally characteristic strongly within the institutional prime 10: the Chinese Academy of Sciences is available in second total (228), narrowing the hole with Harvard, adopted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (113) and Germany’s Max Planck Society (67). The University of Pennsylvania has joined the highest 10 this yr, leaping 7 slots from quantity 17 in 2021.
Figure 1: Highly Cited Researchers by nation/area
Ranking |
Country/Region |
Number HCRs |
% |
Change % Share |
1 |
United States |
2,764 |
38.3 |
-5.0 |
2 |
China Mainland |
1,169 |
16.2 |
8.3 |
3 |
United Kingdom |
579 |
8 |
-1.0 |
4 |
Germany |
369 |
5.1 |
-0.8 |
5 |
Australia |
337 |
4.7 |
0.7 |
6 |
Canada |
226 |
3.1 |
0.4 |
7 |
The Netherlands |
210 |
2.9 |
-0.2 |
8 |
France |
134 |
1.9 |
-0.7 |
9 |
Switzerland |
112 |
1.6 |
-0.6 |
10 |
Singapore |
106 |
1.5 |
0.2 |
Figure 2: Highly Cited Researchers by analysis establishment or group
Ranking |
Institution and Country/Region |
Number HCRs |
1 |
Harvard University, United States |
233 |
2 |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mainland |
228 |
3 |
Stanford University, United States |
126 |
4 |
National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States |
113 |
5 |
Tsinghua University, China Mainland |
73 |
6 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States |
71 |
7 |
Max Planck Society, Germany |
67 |
8 |
University of California San Diego, United States |
66 |
9 |
University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
63 |
10 |
University of Pennsylvania, United States |
62 |
The full Highly Cited Researchers 2022 listing and evaluation may be discovered right here.
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Notes to editors:
The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank within the prime 1% by citations for discipline and publication yr within the Web of Science™ quotation index, and the listing identifies the analysis establishments and nations the place they’re primarily based. Our evaluation is predicated on main researcher affiliations, as specified by Highly Cited Researchers themselves. This yr, 7,225 researcher awards from 69 nations and areas are acknowledged – 3,981 in particular fields and three,244 for cross-field impression. The 7,225 Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations are issued to six,938 people. The variety of awards exceeds the variety of distinctive people as a result of some researchers are receiving recognition in multiple Essential Science Indicators™ (ESI) discipline of analysis. Our evaluation of nations/areas and establishments counts designations or appearances and is thus primarily based on the overall of seven,225. These researchers had been chosen primarily based on the variety of extremely cited papers they produced over an 11-year interval from January 2011 to December 2021. The methodology that determines the who’s who of researchers attracts on information and evaluation carried out by bibliometric consultants on the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate. It makes use of InCites Benchmarking & Analytics™, Essential Science Indicators™ and a singular compilation of science efficiency metrics and pattern information primarily based on scholarly paper publication counts and quotation information from the Web of Science™, the world’s largest publisher-neutral quotation index and analysis intelligence platform.
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