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CEB is proud to announce that two of our academics and one former Researcher have been named Highly Cited Researchers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group, released today.

This is the second year that Prof. José António Teixeira, Prof. António A. Vicente and Doctor Miguel Cerqueira (now at INL) have been identified in Agricultural Sciences field category for their work developed while researchers at CEB. With three of its researchers being listed, CEB has the largest number of researchers in a research unit in Portugal on the 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers.

The highly anticipated list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.

The methodology that determines the who’s who of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from the Institute for Scientific Information at the Web of Science Group. The data are taken from 21 broad research fields within Essential Science Indicators, a component of InCites. The fields are defined by sets of journals and exceptionally, in the case of multidisciplinary journals such as Nature and Science, by a paper-by-paper assignment to a field based on an analysis of the cited references in the papers. This percentile-based selection method removes the citation advantage of older papers relative to recently published ones, since papers are weighed against others in the same annual cohort.  

This year the list includes 6,217 Highly Cited Researchers in various fields from nearly 60 nations. Portugal is home to only 11 HCRs.

The full 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list and executive summary can be found here, and the methodology can be found here.