Distinguished Professor Susumu Kitagawa
Clarivate Analytics has selected Distinguished Professor Susumu Kitagawa as one of the Highly Cited Researchers for ranking in the top 1% most cited papers in the field of chemistry.
Papers that are often cited by other papers can be said that they have a significant impact within their respective fields of study, and therefore the list draws global attention every year when it is announced.
This year’s list contains about 3,900 researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences, and also about 2,500 researchers identified as having exceptional performance across several fields. The list was made based on the number of highly cited papers they produced over an 11 years period from 2009 to 2019.
This is the seventh consecutive year that Kitagawa was selected for the list. He was previously awarded as a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in 2010.