News Brief: Steven Salzberg among world’s most cited researchers
Steven Salzberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is among the 6,636 individuals on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate Analytics.
Using qualitative and quantitative analysis to identify researchers from across the globe whose work holds broad influence, the list is drawn from highly cited papers that rank in the top percentile of citations for field and publication year over the past decade. In total, 52 researchers from Johns Hopkins made the 2024 list.
The individuals appearing on the 2024 list work in 59 countries, but the United States continued to lay claim to the highest concentration of highly cited researchers with 2,507, or 36.4% of the total, according to Clarivate’s analysis of the rankings. However, the U.S. share has been shrinking for several years. The number of highly cited researchers in the United States declined by nearly 7% this year from 2018 while increasing 12.5% for mainland China over that same period. China ranks second with 1,405 researchers, or 20.4%. The United Kingdom came in at third with 8.2%, or 563 individuals.
“This list demonstrates that Johns Hopkins is home to some of the world’s most important scholars and researchers from dozens of fields,” said Denis Wirtz, JHU’s vice provost for research. “They exemplify a culture focused on pushing the boundaries of discovery, and this has helped position Johns Hopkins as one of the best places on Earth for producing new, insightful, and consequential research. As an institution, we will continue to invest our time and resources into ensuring that our faculty can continue to focus on making discoveries that can change the world.”