This year's list of the top 1% of scientists worldwide was released. The United States still ranks No. 1 with China chasing at No. 2, while 76 people from Korea made the list but the country did not make the top 10.
Clarivate, a global academic information analytics firm, announced on the 13th the list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), the most influential researchers among scholars worldwide. Clarivate analyzes citation counts and other metrics to publish the world's most influential researchers each year.
This year, 6,868 people (7,131 entries in total) from 60 countries were named to the HCR list. Because some researchers were selected in two or more research fields simultaneously, the number of entries is larger than the actual number of researchers.
By country, the United States ranked first with 2,669 entries, accounting for 37.4% of the entire HCR list. The U.S. share on the HCR list has steadily decreased from 43.3% in 2018, but it rose by 1.0 percentage point from 36.4% last year, showing an upward trend.
China (mainland) ranked second, with 1,408 entries on the list. Its share was 19.7%, down 0.7 percentage point from 20.4% last year. It was followed by the United Kingdom (570), Germany (363), Australia (311), Canada (227), the Netherlands (194), Hong Kong (145), Switzerland (130), and France (121). Korea had 76 people named to the HCR list, and Japan produced 88 researchers.
By institution, the Chinese Institute of Science recorded 258 entries on the HCR to take first place. Harvard University was second with 170, and Stanford University was third with 141. China's Tsinghua University ranked fourth with 91, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was fifth with 85, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was sixth with 84.
Clarivate said, "This year's HCRs span 60 countries and regions, but 86% of all entries are concentrated in the top 10 countries, and the top five countries account for 75% of the total," adding that it "showed a high concentration of global research capacity."