Professor Park Joo-hyun Selected as World’s ‘Top 1%’ Researcher for 6th Straight Year N
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- Date : 2020.11.26 10:46
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‘Top 1% for thesis citation’ in the three fields of math, computer science, and engineering
Only 9 researchers in the world selected for 3 or more fields... Only in Korea
Professor Park’s student also selected for two consecutive years... Teacher and student recognized as global researchers
YU Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Park Joo-hyun (52) was selected as a world’s top 1% researcher once again. He was selected as the world’s most influential researcher for six straight years from 2015
Clarivate Analytics, a global information analysis company, announced the ‘most influential researcher in the world in 2020’, or ‘top 1% most frequently cited theses (Highly Cited Researchers, HCR),’ on the 18th.
Professor Park was again selected as the world’s top 1% researcher in the three fields of mathematics, computer science, and engineering. There are only 9 people in the world selected as top 1% researchers in more than fields. Professor Park was the only one selected from Korea. Being selected as an HCR in multiple fields means that the researcher exhibits influence in a wide range of areas, and it is a recognition as unparalleled research capacities even among world acclaimed researchers.
There was a total of 6,167 people from over 60 countries around the world who were named in this year’s HCR. There are a total of 41 researchers in Korea who were selected as HCR, and 39 of them are Korean. Professor Park was the only one in Korea to be selected in three different fields, and three others were selected for two fields. Included among them are the global scholar in the nano-sector who received attention as a candidate for the Nobel Prize this year, Seoul National University Seated Professor Hyun Taek-hwan who was named in two fields.
HCRs are selected from a total of 22 fields comprised of 21 sectors in natural and social sciences, and 1 cross-field (researcher with high impact on researchers in various fields). Professor Park Joo-hyeon’s student and professor at Jeonbuk National University Department of Electronic Engineering, Lee Tae-hee was also selected for the second consecutive year in the cross field sector. Professor Lee earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate’s at YU and served as a post-doctorate researcher at YU and Deakin University in Australia, and was appointed as a professor at Jeonbuk National University in September of 2017. The teacher Professor Park and student Professor Lee were both recognized as global researchers.