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KIST Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) (2019.11.22)
- Date : 2020-02-26
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KIST Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)
KIST announced on Monday that Dr. Ick-Chan
Kwon and Dr. Kwang-Meyung Kim had been selected as two of the world’s most
influential researchers for the sixth consecutive year.
Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson
Reuters’ Intellectual Property and Science Division) compiled a list of 6,216
of the world’s most influential researchers (Highly Cited Researchers, or
HCRs), which is based on the researcher’s number of citations over the last
decade. Among those chosen, Dr. Ick-Chan Kwon and Dr. Kwang-Meyung Kim* were
selected as representatives for the sixth year in a row in the fields of
pharmacology and toxicology.
*Dr. Kwang-Meyung Kim was an HCR in other
fields as well, and thus was classified as “crossfield.”
Their selection was especially significant
as, among the 41 Korean researchers listed as HCRs for 2019, only six had been
included for six years in a row.
The HCR list, which has been compiled since
2014, is created using a web-based system called the “Web of Science,” which
has access to more than 33,000 scientific and academic research journals, to
examine the number of times a paper published by a researcher is cited
worldwide. Based on this data, an annual list of the world’s most influential
researchers is published using Essential Science Indicators (ESI), an indicator
of how scientific research results and trends are digitized and aggregated in a
unique way.
Dr. Ick-Chan Kwon, a leading authority on
theragnosis research, has published more than 400 papers on the SCI, including
in journals such as Nature, with his papers having been cited more than 19,000
times so far. Earlier in 2019, Dr. Kwon also received a prize in the Applied
Sciences category at the 28th Annual Sudang Foundation Awards.
Dr. Kwang-Meyung Kim, a renowned researcher in the field of nanomedicine research, has published more than 110 papers as a lead author over the past five years, with his total citations standing at more than 10,000 so far. Dr. Kim also won the Science and Technology award at an event marking Science and Information Communication Day in 2019.