On November 15, US company Clarivate Analytics announced the 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list, which included Keio Professor Kenya Honda of the School of Medicine (Immunology) who has been selected every year since the list began four years ago.
The list identifies the world’s most influential scientific minds by analyzing citation data over a recent 11-year period (January 2005 to December 2015) in the 21 main specialty areas in the natural and social sciences. About 3,500 researchers from around the world were selected for distinguishing themselves with the publication of highly cited papers.
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Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2017
Clarivate Analytics News Release