press release, 16. November 2021

Three UFZ scientists among the most influential scientists worldwide

In the annual scientific ranking of the most cited researchers (Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate), three scientists of the UFZ are represented in 2021: Prof. Stan W. Harpole, Prof. Ingolf Kühn und Prof. Josef Settele. Among the 6,600 selected scientists worldwide are Prof. Dagmar Haase and Dr. Nadja Kabisch, two scientists who started their scientific careers at the UFZ and continue to be closely connected to the UFZ through a guest contract.

The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index. 

The methodology that determines the "who’s who" of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. It also uses the tallies to identify the countries and research institutions where these citation elite are based.

The full 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list and executive summary can be found here, and the methodology can be found here.

Prof. Stan W. Harpole The botanist and ecologist heads the Department of Physiological Diversity at UFZ and iDiv and is a 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.

Prof. Ingolf Kühn The biologist is a scientist in the UFZ Department of Community Ecology and Professor at the 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.

Prof. Josef Settele The agricultural biologist is head of the UFZ Department of Conservation Biology and Professor (apl.) at the 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 Co-ordination 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 and he is a member of environmental expert panel of the German government.

Prof. Dagmar Haase The geographer is professor for landscape ecology at the Institute of Geography of the Humboldt University Berlin and guest researcher at the UFZ.

Dr. Nadja Kabisch The geographer heads the BMBF junior research group Global Change "GreenEquityHEALTH" at the Institute of Geography of Humboldt University Berlin and is a guest researcher at the UFZ.

Further information

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