Every year, the Web of Science publishes a list of the most cited scientists for 22 different research fields in medicine, engineering, as well as natural and social sciences. For 2018, approximately 6,000 scientists will be listed in the list of Highly Cited Researchers. The evaluation is based on the analysis of the scientific publications published in the period 2006-2016. Only the first percent of the most frequently cited publications from the respective field of research is taken into account for the calculation. Apart from clinical medicine, also outstanding scientists from e.g. materials sciences, biology and biochemistry and economics are listed.

This year the BREATH scientist Prof. Dr. Marius Hoeper is one of these distinguished scientists in the field of clinical medicine. The Chief Physician of Pneumology at the Hannover Medical School conducts research in the field of pulmonary hypertension, i.e. hyperinflated lungs, on which he has published more than 300 publications. Prof. Hoeper is among others a member of the Editorial Board of the internationally renowned American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and member of the Advisory Board of Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Circulation, European Respiratory Journal and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In 2014, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the field of pulmonary hypertension by the European Respiratory Society.

About 400 researchers from Germany will be listed in the list of Highly Cited Researchers this year. Almost 10% of them are scientists from clinical research.

The complete list can be accessed through this link.

Text: BREATH / CD

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