4 Australian neurology researchers are most highly cited in the world

Research

By Michael Woodhead

24 Nov 2020

Four Australia researchers in the fields of neurology have been named as the most influential in the world in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list

Produced by analytics company, Clarivate, the list identifies scientists who have published papers ranking in the top 1% by citations by peers in their field over the past ten years.

Among the 6,400 Highly Cited Researchers across 21 fields of the sciences there are 212 named in the Neurosciences section, including paediatric epilepsy researcher Professor Ingrid Scheffer of the University of Melbourne.

Prof. Ingrid Scheffer

Professor Scheffer is also Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, as well as President of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences as its President.

Also from the University of Melbourne are dementia researchers Professor Chris Rowe and Professor Colin Masters. Professor Rowe is Director of Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health and the lead of the new Australian Dementia Network (ADNet). Professor Masters is Head of the Neurodegeneration Division at The Florey Institute. His research interests include Alzheimer’s disease and viral infections of the brain.

The University of Sydney’s Professor Glenda Halliday is also included in to highly cited researchers for her publications on non-Alzheimer’s neurodegeneration and her work on frontotemporal and motor neurodegenerative syndromes, and Parkinson’s disease. She is also Director of the Sydney Brain Bank.

In a statement, Clarivate said it applauded the new Highly Cited Researchers  who ranked as the 1 in 1,000 global scientists and social scientists whose papers have demonstrated significant citation impact during the last decade.

“Identifying these key players at the leading edge of their chosen fields provides a distinct advantage for those who fund, monitor, support and advance the conduct of research, often in the face of finite resources and complex, pressing challenges,” it said.

The rankings also show that Australia is punching above its weight in terms of research influence, with 305 highly cited researchers placing it in fifth place globally in in terms of highly cited papers, behind the US, China the UK and Germany.

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