Semmelweis Professors Among Highly Cited Researchers

Four Hungarians, including two professors from Semmelweis University are included on the list of the most cited researchers that has just been published.

Dr. Péter Ferdinandy, Vice Rector for Science and Innovation at Semmelweis University and Dr. Balázs Győrffy, Head of the Department of Bioinformatics at the University of Semmelweis, are the authors of articles that are in the top 1% of the most cited in their fields. The Web of Science, a multidisciplinary international scientific database, lists a total of 7,000 researchers from around the world.

According to the university's website, the editors of the list based their ranking on the most highly cited publications with up to 30 authors published between 2011 and 2021, that is, those who rank in the top 1% of publications in their field of specialization in terms of citations. In the scientific world, citation, that is, the number of citations to research-based publications, is the measure of scientific impact. The more highly cited a discipline is, the more highly cited publications are needed to get someone mentioned in the rankings.

Dr. Péter Ferdinandy has 14 highly cited publications and was included in the Highly Cited Researchers list for the fifth time this year. He was included in the pharmacology and toxicology category in 2014 and 2017, and in the cross-field category in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Dr. Balázs Győrffy has 13 highly cited publications, also in the cross-field category.

The other two Hungarian researchers on the list are Dr. Zsolt Demetrovics from ELTE University and Dr. Attila Szolnoki from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Web of Science's list of researchers, based on a master collection of 21 scientific disciplines in a multidisciplinary international knowledge database, includes about one thousandth of scientists, or 7,000 people, from around the world.