NUS experts among world's highly-cited
Eleven NUS scientists have been named among the world’s most prominent scientific minds in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2015 report. NUS has the distinction of having the most number of highly-cited researchers among research institutions in Singapore for the second year running.
The University’s trailblazers, which include the late conservationist Professor Navjot Sodhi, come from the fields of agricultural sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environment/ecology, materials science, mathematics, physics and social sciences. These scientists had published numerous articles that ranked among the top 1 per cent of the most cited in their respective fields in each paper’s year of publication.
A total of 3,000 researchers made it to the Highly Cited Researchers 2015 study, part of a larger survey titled The World’s Most Influential Minds 2015. The Highly Cited Researchers report is also based on an assessment of more than 120,000 papers indexed between 2003 and 2013 in 21 broad fields of science.
Professor Ho Teck Hua, NUS Deputy President (Research and Technology) and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, said, “NUS has been making strong progress in pursuing broad-based, cutting-edge research, and enhancing the translational impact of our work. We are pleased that the high quality and impact of the research conducted by our researchers have been recognised by the global scientific community. We will continue to forge transformative advances in research, and actively promote the translation of scientific discoveries to create economic and social value for Singapore, Asia and beyond.”
| Scientific Area | |
| Associate Professor Huang Dejian NUS Chemistry | Agricultural Sciences |
| Associate Professor Liu Xiaogang NUS Chemistry | Chemistry |
| Assistant Professor Zhang Rui NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering | Computer Science |
| Associate Professor Yan Shuicheng NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering |
| The late Professor Navjot Sodhi NUS Biological Sciences | Environment/Ecology |
| Professor Lee Jim Yang NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Materials Science |
| Associate Professor Liu Bin NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Materials Science |
| Professor Seeram Ramakrishna NUS Mechanical Engineering | Materials Science |
| Professor Shen Zuowei NUS Mathematics Dean, NUS Science | Mathematics |
| Professor Antonio Castro Neto NUS Physics Director, Centre for Advanced 2D Materials | Physics |
| Professor Eric A Finkelstein Duke-NUS Medical School | Social Sciences, general |
Read more about the report here and see press release.
