{"id":237971,"date":"2023-11-15T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/?p=237971"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:22:06","slug":"highly-cited-researchers-2023-the-evolution-of-our-evaluation-and-selection-policy-to-support-a-robust-scholarly-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/academia-government\/blog\/highly-cited-researchers-2023-the-evolution-of-our-evaluation-and-selection-policy-to-support-a-robust-scholarly-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Cited Researchers 2023: The evolution of our evaluation and selection policy to support a robust scholarly landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, the unveiling of the Highly Cited Researchers\u2122 list sparks anticipation within the global research community as both researchers and their affiliated institutions or organizations scrutinize the list. Today, we present our 2023 list<\/a>, recognizing 6,849 individuals from more than 1,300 institutions across 67 countries and regions.<\/p>\n

These Highly Cited Researchers stand out for their significant and broad influence in various scientific and social science domains, representing a small fraction of the researcher population whose contributions disproportionately extend the frontiers of knowledge and gain societal innovations that make the world healthier, more sustainable and more secure.<\/p>\n

Our 2023 evaluation and selection policy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As the need for high-quality data from rigorously selected sources is becoming ever more important, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)\u2122 has had to adapt and respond to technological advances and changes in the publishing landscape when selecting individuals for inclusion. Just as we have applied stringent standards and selection criteria to identify trusted journals in the Web of Science\u2122, we have evolved our evaluation and selection policies for our annual Highly Cited Researchers program to address the challenges of an increasingly complex and polluted scholarly record.<\/p>\n

Our process for identifying individuals to our Highly Cited Researchers list includes the consideration of many qualitative and quantitative factors. The published list is determined by combining the inter-related information available to us.<\/p>\n

We start with the creation of a new preliminary list each year based on our citation data from the papers published from the previous 11-year rolling window. We then refine it with the information that lies beneath, using\u00a0qualitative analysis and expert judgement.<\/p>\n

After the citation triage stage, we look at a growing number of factors when evaluating papers including, but not but limited to:<\/p>\n