"10 Researchers in the Top 1% Worldwide at UNIST ... Largest Number Among 70 in Korea"

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Dooyul] Ten faculty members from UNIST have been selected as ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) in the top 1% worldwide,’ making UNIST the institution with the most HCRs in South Korea.

Clarivate officially announced the ‘2022 HCR (Highly Cited Researchers: researchers with a high number of paper citations)’ on the 15th.

HCR is a list of ‘top 1% researchers’ published annually based on the number of citations of papers by field.

This year, 70 researchers affiliated with Korean institutions (63 excluding duplicates) were named. Among them, 10 are from UNIST, the highest number in the country.

Seoul National University and Sungkyunkwan University ranked joint second with 9 researchers each (including duplicates).

The UNIST researchers named in the 2022 HCR are ▲Rodney S. Ruoff, Distinguished Professor, ▲Jae-Pil Cho, Distinguished Professor, ▲Kwangsoo Kim, Professor, ▲Jongbeom Baek, Distinguished Professor, ▲Sangil Seok, Distinguished Professor, ▲Hyunwook Lee, Professor, ▲Seungwoo Cho, Professor, ▲Donghwa Seo, Professor, ▲Changduck Yang, Professor, and ▲Hooyoung Jung, Professor.

In the field of materials science, Professors Rodney S. Ruoff, Jae-Pil Cho, and Sangil Seok were selected; all have been consistently named HCRs for over five years.

Professors Jongbeom Baek and Kwangsoo Kim, who have been selected in cross-fields for five consecutive years, cover various areas including chemistry and materials science.

Professor Hyunwook Lee, a researcher in secondary batteries and real-time transmission electron microscopy (TEM), has been named HCR for four consecutive years, and Professor Seungwoo Cho, an expert in gene editing and biotechnology, has been selected for two consecutive years.

Professors Changduck Yang, Hooyoung Jung, and Donghwa Seo were named HCRs for the first time this year.

Professor Changduck Yang is a leading scholar in perovskite solar cells and next-generation solar cells, Professor Hooyoung Jung is a TEM expert with outstanding achievements in materials science, and Professor Donghwa Seo is an expert in lithium-ion batteries and secondary batteries.

UNIST President Yong-Hoon Lee said, “The ultra-gap technologies that have greatly changed the world come from the hands of outstanding scholars and research-oriented universities where they can freely conduct research. UNIST will continue to provide and encourage an environment where excellent researchers can grow and thrive as a research-oriented university fulfilling its mission.”

This year’s HCR list was analyzed based on citation counts of papers published over 11 years, from January 2011 to December 2021. As a result, 6,938 researchers were selected across 22 fields.

The country with the most HCRs this year is the United States with 2,764 researchers, followed by China with 1,169, the United Kingdom with 579, Germany with 369, and Australia with 337.

The institution with the most HCRs is Harvard University in the United States with 233 researchers, followed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences with 228, Stanford University with 126, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) with 113.

The 2022 HCR list can be viewed on the HCR website.

10 UNIST Researchers at HCR 2022.

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