short information, 19. November 2019

Four UFZ scientists among the most influential scientists worldwide

In November 2019, four UFZ scientists, Prof. Josef Settele, Prof. Ingolf Kühn, Prof. William Stan Harpole and Dr. Stefan Klotz, will be represented in the annual scientific ranking of the most cited researchers (Highly Cited Researchers). This was announced today by the Web of Science Group.

Prof. Dr. Josef Settele Photo: © Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Prof. Dr. Josef Settele
Photo: © Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn Photo: Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn
Photo: Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Prof. Dr. William Stan Harpole Photo: Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Prof. Dr. William Stan Harpole
Photo: Sebastian Wiedling / UFZ
Dr. Stefan Klotz Photo: André Künzelmann / UFZ
Dr. Stefan Klotz
Photo: André Künzelmann / UFZ

For the ranking, more than 6.200 researchers from 21 natural sciences and social sciences have been selected based on the number of the most frequently cited publications published between January 2008 and December 2018. The Highly Cited Researchers 2019 represent the world’s most influential scientific minds.

The full 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list and executive summary can be found here, and the methodology can be found here.

Prof. Josef Settele, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) & Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). His research focuses on the Conservation and Evolutionary Biology of Insects, Biodiversity and Land Use and Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Project Coordination in the field of biodiversity. In the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) he was one of the three directors of the Global Assessment, which was published in May 2019. https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=38572

Prof. Ingolf Kühn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) & Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). His research focuses on biological invasions, the functional composition of communities and assemblages, i.e. the composition of their functional traits, as well as impacts of climate change and land-use change on such assemblages. http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=38592

Prof. William Stan Harpole, Head of Department Physiological Diversity at UFZ and iDiv and Professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). His research focuses on developing, testing, and applying biodiversity theory to understand the interactive effects of multiple global change drivers. His expertise bridges ecosystem, theoretical and community ecology. Specific research topics include ecological stoichiometry, niche theory and mechanisms of coexistence. https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=34230

Dr. Stefan Klotz is an ecologist and Head of the Research Unit Ecosystems of the Future as well as of the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ in Halle. He is an expert in plant ecology and has been elected as Secretary General of the European Ecological Federation (EEF), the Federation of Ecological Societies in Europe, and also Deputy Chairman of the European Network for Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER Europe). https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=43273


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