25 NUS researchers rank among the world’s most cited scientists

Researchers from NUS have been placed among the world’s most highly cited. This is according to the newly unveiled list of Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 by Clarivate.

The hotly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrate significant influence in their chosen field by publishing several highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1 per cent by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

A total of 25 NUS researchers have been named in this year’s list. These NUS researchers were recognised by their peers as outstanding in the fields of Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Computer Science, Economics and Business, Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Neuroscience and Behaviour and more.

This year, more than 6,000 researchers in 21 fields were selected based on the number of highly cited papers they produced over 11 years from January 2009 to December 2019.

The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of researchers draws on data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. It uses a unique compilation of science performance metrics and trend data based on scholarly paper publication counts and citation data.

NUS Deputy President (Research and Technology) Professor Chen Tsuhan said, “NUS is proud of the achievements of our highly influential researchers who are making significant contributions to their respective fields, and much of their work has a profound impact on the communities we serve. We will remain steadfast in our singular focus on recruiting, nurturing, and retaining talent, who are the catalyst for a sustainable culture of innovation that will further strengthen Singapore’s position as a vibrant research hub.”

David Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said, “In the race for knowledge, it is human capital that is fundamental and this list identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers at NUS who are having a great impact on the research community as measured by the rate at which their work is being cited by others.”

The 25 highly cited NUS researchers in their respective fields are:

    Chemistry

• Professor Jiang Donglin
  Department of Chemistry
  NUS Faculty of Science
   
• Professor Liu Bin
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Professor Liu Xiaogang
  Department of Chemistry
  NUS Faculty of Science
   
• Associate Professor Xie Jianping
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Associate Professor Yan Ning
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Clinical Medicine

• Professor Wong Tien Yin
  Duke-NUS Medical School &
  Department of Ophthalmology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

    Computer Science

• Dr Tan Jen Hong
  NUS Institute of Systems Science
   
• Associate Professor Zhang Rui
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Cross-Field

• Professor Jerry Chan Kok Yen
  Duke-NUS Medical School
   
• Associate Professor Goki Eda
  Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics
  NUS Faculty of Science
   
• Professor Derek John Hausenloy
  Duke-NUS Medical School
   
• Research Assistant Professor Alan Prem Kumar
  Department of Pharmacology, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine &
  Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at NUS
   
• Associate Professor Qiu Cheng Wei
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Professor Seeram Ramakrishna
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Associate Professor Gautam Sethi
  Department of Pharmacology
  NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
   
• Professor John Wang
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Associate Professor Zhao Dan
  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Economics and Business

• Professor Ang Beng Wah
  NUS Energy Studies Institute &
  Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, NUS Faculty of Engineering
   
• Dr Su Bin
  NUS Energy Studies Institute

    Engineering

• Professor Ge Shuzhi Sam
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Materials Science and Physics

• Professor Guillermo C. Bazan
  Department of Chemistry
  Faculty of Science
   
• Professor Loh Kian Ping
  Department of Chemistry
  NUS Faculty of Science
   
• Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Neuroscience and Behaviour

• Associate Professor Thomas Yeo Boon Thye
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS Faculty of Engineering &
  The Centre for Sleep and Cognition, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine &
  The Centre for Translational MR Research, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine &
  The N.1 Institute for Health, NUS Faculty of Engineering

    Physics

• Professor Antonio Helio Castro Neto
  NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials &
  Department of Physics, NUS Faculty of Science &
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS Faculty of Engineering