Two at the top

Two Empa scientists are on this year's list of "Highly Cited Researchers". The publications of Bernd Nowack and Maksym Kovalenko are among the top-1% most highly cited papers worldwide. The two Empa researchers Bernd Nowack and Maksym Kovalenko have made it onto the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" this year - Nowack for the fifth time in a row. The list is published annually by Clarivate Analytics and shows which researchers were cited most frequently with their publications. Only the top-one percent of scientists - around 3'500 researchers worldwide altogether - make it onto the list. Clarivate Analytics analyzes the number of citations over the past ten years using its own "Web of Science" platform. The scientists are ranked based on how many highly-cited papers they published in this period.