Thomson Reuters published the list with the Highly Cited Researchers for 2016, it represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. Among them 31 Greek scientists, 9 of which are in Greece.

Highly Cited Researchers from the Intellectual Property (IP) and Science business of Thomson Reuters is an annual list recognizing leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. The 2016 list focuses on contemporary research achievement: only Highly Cited Papers in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period 2004-2014 were surveyed. Highly Cited Papers are defined as those that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science.

See the list with the 31 Greek researchers:

1.Paul Alivisatos Chemistry Univ Calif Berkeley, USA – Read more…

2.Alexandros Stamatakis Computer Science Heidelberg Inst Theoret Studies, Germany – Read more…

3.Antonios G Mikos Pharmacology & Toxicology Rice Univ, USA – Read more…

4.Arthur Christopoulos Pharmacology & Toxicology Monash Univ, Australia – Read more…

5.Christodoulos A Floudas Computer Science Texas A&M Univ System, USA Princeton Univ, USA – Read more…

6.Christos Pantelis Psychiatry/Psychology Univ Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Hlth, Australia – Read more…

7.Constantine D Rakopoulos Engineering Natl Tech Univ Athens, Greece

8.Costas M Soukoulis Physics Iowa State Univ, USA Ames Natl Lab, USA; IESL Forth, Greece – Read more…

9.Demetrios N Christodoulides Physics Univ Cent Florida, USA

10.Dimitra Daferera Agricultural Sciences Agr Univ Athens, Greece

11.Dimitrios C Rakopoulos Engineering Natl Tech Univ Athens, Greece

12.Emmanouil T Dermitzakis Molecular Biology & Genetics Univ Geneva, Switzerland – Read more…

13.Evangelos G Giakoumis Engineering Natl Tech Univ Athens, Greece

14.George D Demetri Clinical Medicine Dana Farber Canc Inst, USA – Read more…

15.George K Karagiannidis Computer Science Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Greece Khalifa Univ Sci Technol & Res, UAE

16.George L Bakris Clinical Medicine Univ Chicago, USA

17.Georgia D Tomaras Microbiology Duke Univ, USA

18.Georgios B Giannakis Computer Science Univ Minnesota, USA – Read more…

19.Gerasimos S Filippatos Clinical Medicine Univ Athens, Greece Univ Hosp Athens, Greece

20.John A Stamatoyannopoulos Molecular Biology & Genetics Univ Washington, USA – Read more…

21.John N Klironomos Environment/Ecology Univ British Columbia, Canada

22.John PA Ioannidis Clinical Medicine Stanford Univ, USA – Read more…

23.Moschos Polissiou Agricultural Sciences Agr Univ Athens, Greece – Read more…

24.Manolis Kellis Biology & Biochemistry MIT, USA Broad Inst, USA – Read more…

25.Meletios A Dimopoulos Clinical Medicine Univ Athens, Greece

26.Nikos C Kyrpides Biology & Biochemistry Joint Genome Inst – JGI, USA King Abdulaziz Univ, Saudi Arabia

27.Nikos D Hatziargyriou Engineering Natl Tech Univ Athens, Greece

28.Panagiotis Kamtsiuris Social Sciences, general Robert Koch Inst, Germany

29.Panos Deloukas Molecular Biology & Genetics Queen Mary Univ London – Read more…

30.Phaedon Avouris Physics IBM, USA – Read more…

31.Theodora Hatziioannou Microbiology Aaron Diamond AIDS Res Ctr, USA – Read more…

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