Highly Cited Researchers
The list of the world's most cited scientists is published annually by the American company Clarivate Analytics. The Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list includes about 6,600 scientists representing 1,300 institutions from 70 countries, including 24 Nobel Prize winners. These are the pioneers in their respective fields. Their research over the past decade has resulted in, among other things, high-profile publications that ranked in the top one percent of most cited papers in their field that year in the Web of Science database.