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ISIHighlyCited.com

by Robert Joven, MLS - Information & Education Services Librarian

This free database available on the web gives research professionals working in variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.

ISIHighlyCited.com allows you to find most highly cited authors in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences for the period of 1981 to 1999. You may search the database by author name, category, country or institutional affiliation. The information for each researcher contains biographical information, full listing of publications, and bibliography enhanced by links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science. This database will grow to include the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work.

ISIHighlyCited.com, part of the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, is the only online forum in the world for this type of communication and research. Access to this database is available at http://www.isihighlycited.com/.