More than 170 authors from China have been recognized with a top-cited author award for 2019 from IOP Publishing. The prize is given to corresponding authors who have papers published in both IOP Publishing and its partners’ journals from 2016 to 2018 that are in the top 1% of the most cited papers. The 177 winning authors received a total of 4558 citations over that timeframe.
The IOP Publishing top-cited awards have been given out in seven categories – astronomy and astrophysics; biosciences; environmental sciences; materials; mathematical sciences; physics; and reviews. In physics, the top-cited author is Zhong-Ke Gao from Tianjin University who was the corresponding author on the Europhysics Letters paper “Complex network analysis of time series” (116 50001), which received 81 citations and has been downloaded over 9000 times.
“We know that complex network analysis of time series is an important and cutting-edge topic, especially in the time of ‘big data’,” Gao told Physics World. “We believe that this will attract increasing numbers of researchers into this area.” Indeed, Gao says that his research has several applications from analysing stock markets to detecting seizures from electroencephalograms.
World leaders
Also recognized were the top 10 most-cited reviews published in the last two years by corresponding authors from China. The top 10 review authors received a total of 551 citations and the top-cited authors for a review article from China are Han Zhang and Qiaoliang Bao from Shenzhen University and Soochow University in Suzhou, respectively. Their paper in Nanotechnology – “Photonics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional materials beyond graphene” (27 462001) – received 83 citations and has been downloaded almost 4500 times.
“We’re proud to be able to publish some of the most significant research from scientists in China, many of whom are world leaders in their fields,” says Elaine Tham, associate director (Asia-pacific) at IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World. “These awards allow us to highlight the impact and influence their work has across the global scientific community.”
- For the full list of top-cited authors from China, see here.
