Rising Stars from Essential Science Indicators

Essential Science Indicators from Clarivate Analytics provides citation rankings of scientists, institutions, countries, and journals broken out by broad fields of science. A citation threshold is applied to each field ranking; scientists and institutions are selected if they are in the top 1% by total citations in a given field, and countries and journals must be in the top 50%. A total of 10 years of Clarivate Analytics citation data, plus some number of consecutive bimonthly periods during the current year, are used to determine the rankings. Since Essential Science Indicators is updated every two months, it is possible to identify the scientists, institutions, countries, and journals that have the largest percentage increase in total citations from one update to the next. We call these Rising Stars.

Following the latest bimonthly update to Essential Science Indicators, we have produced a listing of the Rising Stars from the first bimonthly period of 2017 to the second bimonthly period of 2017—that is, from February 2017 to April 2017—in their respective fields.

Among the scientists, the following are named as Rising Stars in their disciplines:

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Scientist Field
CHENG, JH Agricultural Sciences
WANG, YT Biology & Biochemistry
SALIBA, M Chemistry
KHAN, G Clinical Medicine
WALKER, SC Computer Science
LICHTENTHALER, U Economics & Business
LIU, HK Engineering
SMITH, J Environment/Ecology
LI, N Geosciences
WANG, XJ Immunology
YIN, GP Materials Science
SQUASSINA, M Mathematics
NAKANO, K Microbiology
CHEN, YL Molecular Biology & Genetics
QIU, J Multidisciplinary
WANG, XD Neuroscience & Behavior
YADAV, VR Pharmacology & Toxicology
SACHRAJDA, CT Physics
MARSHALL, DJ Plant & Animal Science
GINER-SOROLLA, R Psychiatry/Psychology
LIU, JG Social Sciences, general
DUCOUT, A Space Science

The institutions achieving Rising Star status are as follows:

Institution Field
KOREA FOOD RES INST Agricultural Sciences
NATL INST NATURAL SCIENCES (NINS) Biology & Biochemistry
ULSAN NATL INST SCI TECH Chemistry
HOSP UNIV BELLVITGE Clinical Medicine
MICHIGAN STATE UNIV Computer Science
PSL RES UNIV PARIS Economics & Business
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS Engineering
KING ABDULAZIZ UNIV Environment/Ecology
CHINA UNIV PETR Geosciences
MAX DELBRUCK CTR MOL MED Immunology
ULSAN NATL INST SCI TECH Materials Science
PSL RES UNIV PARIS Mathematics
ARGONNE NATL LAB Microbiology
MAX DELBRUCK CTR MOL MED Molecular Biology & Genetics
UNIV SYS MARYLAND Multidisciplinary
MAX DELBRUCK CTR MOL MED Neuroscience & Behavior
PSL RES UNIV PARIS Pharmacology & Toxicology
MONASH UNIV Physics
NATL INST NATURAL SCIENCES (NINS) Plant & Animal Science
NATL TAIWAN UNIV Psychiatry/Psychology
ROYAL SWEDISH ACAD SCI Social Sciences, general
MCGILL UNIV Space Science

Among the countries named as Rising Stars, Macau and Qatar distinguish themselves in multiple fields.

Country / Region Field
SAUDI ARABIA Agricultural Sciences
MACAU Biology & Biochemistry
QATAR Chemistry
REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA Clinical Medicine
MACAU Computer Science
ZAMBIA Economics & Business
MACAU Engineering
CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Environment/Ecology
NIGERIA Geosciences
QATAR Immunology
MACAU Materials Science
IRAQ Mathematics
SERBIA Microbiology
MACAU Molecular Biology & Genetics
COSTA RICA Multidisciplinary
QATAR Neuroscience & Behavior
MACAU Pharmacology & Toxicology
SRI LANKA Physics
MONACO Plant & Animal Science
URUGUAY Psychiatry/Psychology
MOZAMBIQUE Social Sciences, general
ROMANIA Space Science

The below table lists the Rising Stars among journals. For the purposes of this analysis, Multidisciplinary journals appearing in other fields were omitted.

Journal Field
NUTRIENTS Agricultural Sciences
ACS SUSTAIN CHEM ENG Chemistry
ACM TRANS INTELL SYST TECHNOL Computer Science
J INT FINANC MARK INST MONEY Economics & Business
PLOS ONE Engineering
FRONT IMMUNOL Immunology
FRACT CALC APPL ANAL Mathematics
ONCOTARGET Molecular Biology & Genetics
NAT COMMUN Multidisciplinary
FRONT PHARMACOL Pharmacology & Toxicology
ACS PHOTONICS Physics
JAMA PSYCHIATRY Psychiatry/Psychology
CLIN EPIDEMIOL Social Sciences, general
PHYS DARK UNIVERSE Space Science

For full details and citation histories of these entities, see the Essential Science Indicators product. If you do not have access to the product, please contact your institution’s library or research office.