Professors Hyeon Taeghwan (Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering) and Park Chung-Mo (Department of Chemistry) were included on the Thompson Reuters IP & Science 2015 World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers list. The list derives from Essential Science Indicators (ESI), a component of the Web of Science. ESI tracks papers published in the last decade that rank in the top 1% most cited for their respective years of publication in each of the main subject fields. In all, the current listing of Highly Cited Researchers features more than 3,100 names. A total of 19 Korean scientists were included on the list. Apart from SNU, KAIST, POSTEC, Korea University and Sungkyunkwan University each had two professors who were featured on the list.
Published in HanKook Economic Daily
Summary by LEE Hee Un, SNU English Editor, gurume0221@snu.ac.kr
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