Being a "Highly Cited Researcher" has gone from a sign of having impact as a researcher to a potential indicator of misconduct.

"Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 researchers were removed from a HCR list containing some 6,600 names." - Lauranne Chaignon

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/13/is-the-list-of-highly-cited-researchers-losing-credibility/

#ResearchImpact #HighlyCitedResearchers #Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #Citations #CitationManipulation #CitationScience #ScientificMisconduct #ImpactOfSocialSciences

Is the list of Highly Cited Researchers losing credibility? - Impact of Social Sciences

For over two decades, the Highly Cited Researchers list has spotlighted global scientific influence. But behind its annual release lies a shifting story, which includes evolving methods, changing ownership and growing misuse. Lauranne Chaignon traces the list’s transformation from a research tool to a high-stakes benchmark, raising questions about its continued role in academic evaluation.

Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research

👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 Sie gehören zum „Who is Who“ der Forschung: Die Wissenschaftler:innen, die einer Analyse des Unternehmens Clarivate zufolge zu den meistzitierten Forschenden zählen und in ihrem Fach besonders einflussreich sind. Auch #CharitéBerlin-Forschende sind 2024 wieder zahlreich vertreten – Gratulation an die #HCR2024! 👏

👉 https://www.charite.de/forschung/themen_forschung/2024/highly_cited_researchers_2024/

#BessereMedizin #Medizin #Wissenschaft #Forschung #ScienceMastodon #HighlyCited2024 #HighlyCitedResearchers

Highly Cited Researchers 2024

Vierzehn Wissenschaftler:innen der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin gehören zu den weltweit einflussreichsten Forschenden des Jahres 2024. Das hat eine Analyse des Unternehmens Clarivate ergeben, die heute als Liste der meistzitierten Wissenschaftler:innen („Highly Cited Researchers“) veröffentlicht wurde.

http://bit.ly/46XXxMd
#Science done in #Spain rocks at scandal after scandal rythms Spanish Research Agency -public body- has dismissed Francisco Tomás Barberán, included in #HighlyCitedResearchers list of #Clarivate.Dismissed senior official falsely declared University of #Taif -#SaudiArabia- as his first workplace instead of the real one: #CEBAS - #Murcia- Arab universities have been paying about 70,000 euros a year to each crook for this falsehood.
La Agencia Estatal de Investigación destituye al alto cargo que declaró trabajar cerca de La Meca en vez de en Murcia

Francisco Tomás Barberán, unos de los científicos más citados del mundo, está implicado en la trama saudí para amañar el ‘ranking’ de universidades

El País
http://bit.ly/3t2WUTx
After the scandal of the "scientists for sale" on "#HighlyCitedResearchers" list recruited and paid by academic institutions of absolute and bloodthirsty satrapy of #SaudiArabia,uncovered by the blog #ForBetterScience in 2022 Nov.23 and copied and pasted by journalist Manuel Ansede six months later for the Spanish newspaper @el_pais without paying tribute to original scoop, things look bad for the frauds and charlatans in the multinational Clarivate.
The Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate

“here is my advice to Clarivate: better get lost. ” – Alexander Magazinov

For Better Science

7 Forscher aus Jülich gehören zu den weltweit am häufigsten zitierten Wissenschaftlern! 🌍

Prof. Simon Eickhoff,
Prof. Björn Usadel,
Dr. Hendrik Poorter,
Prof. Thomas Kirchartz,
Prof. Michael Saliba,
Prof. Christoph Brabec und
Dr. Wolfgang Zeier

... wurden von der Web of Science Group als "Highly Cited Researchers" ausgezeichnet. 📚🌟

#HighlyCitedResearchers #WebOfScience

https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/aktuelles/news/meldungen/2023/juelicher-wissenschaftler-sind-highly-cited-researchers

Sieben Jülicher Wissenschaftler sind „Highly Cited Researchers“

Jülicher Forscher gehören zu den weltweit am häufigsten zitierten Wissenschaftler:innen. Sie wurden von der Web of Science Group, die zu Clarivate Analytics gehört, als „Highly Cited Researchers“ gelistet.

🏆 The list of #HighlyCitedResearchers is out:

👉 https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/

Are you on it? Still working on getting there? Not giving a f***?

#ScienceMastodon #academia #AcademicMastodon #science #research #HighlyCited2023

Highly Cited Researchers | Clarivate

The Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and comprehensive analysis, we recognize researchers whose exceptional and community-wide contributions shape the future of science, technology and academia globally.

Clarivate
Bereits zum dritten Mal gehört Professorin Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida mit ihrer Forschung zum #Mikrobiom von Meeresschwämmen zu den #HighlyCitedResearchers.
https://www.geomar.de/news/article/spitzenforscherin-der-kieler-meereswissenschaften-1
Spitzenforscherin der Kieler Meeresforschung erneut ausgezeichnet

15.11.2023/Kiel. Professorin Dr. Ute Hentschel Humeida, Leiterin der Forschungseinheit „Marine Symbiosen“ am GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel ist zum dritten Mal im Ranking der „Highly Cited Researchers“ vertreten.

Higly Cited Fraudsters?😜
Six months ago,#Clarivate, which publishes #HighlyCitedResearchers list once a year, reported growing efforts “to game the system" and create self-generated top researcher status
Number of academics excluded from such influential list nearly doubled in the space of a year:
550 researchers fell into scientific misconduct in 2022 versus 300 researchers in 2021
Ao longo de 2021 dous investigadores galegos que traballaron en exclusiva para o Centro Tecnolóxico da Carne aumentaron os artigos publicados a 74
-un artigo cada 5 días-
e 55 -un artigo á semana- cada un e recibiron máis de 2.000 citas ingresando na #HighlyCitedResearchers de #Clarivate.
Foron contratados pola empresa dun profesor de #Matemáticas de #Murcia para cambiar a súa conexión coa Universidade Rei Abdulaziz
A empresa facturou aos sauditas euR 70.000 ao ano por cada científico.