Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro) is the national higher education institution with the largest number of researchers whose scientific papers are among the most cited in the world by other scientists. Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list, one of the most important rankings in the academic world, was released this week and identifies three researchers from this academy.
Armando da Costa Duarte and Teresa Rocha Santos both researchers at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), and Jorge Alexandre Saraiva from the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV-REQUIMTE), are the three UAveiro researchers featured in the Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024 a list that analyzed the work of 6,636 scientists from 59 countries.
Armando Duarte and Jorge Saraiva have been on the Clarivate list for four consecutive years and Teresa Rocha Santos for three. Delfim F. Marado Torres from the Centre for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) has also been on the list in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019.
Created by Clarivate, a global research consultancy, the list of names comes from articles ranked in the top one percent of the world’s most influential research articles by scientific area. It covers publications in journals indexed in the Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, between January 2013 and December 2023, and is based on data from the Web of Science citation index and qualitative analysis by experts from Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific Information.
This ranking aims to recognize the most influential scientists around the world, with relevant contributions to their scientific fields and to the future of science, technology and academia worldwide, to disseminate the impact of global research and promote collaborative innovation, as well as to provide insights into global research and innovation trends.
Portugal has 18 scientists listed, representing a total of 11 higher education institutions. Worldwide, scientific influence is concentrated in the US, China and the UK.
The 2024 edition of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024 was released on November 19th and can be viewed here
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