6 Cluster member among Highly Cited Researcher

With a total of 14 researchers, the University of Bonn is represented this year in the international ranking of "Highly Cited Researchers". Among them are 6 scientists from the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation.

According to the creators of the ranking, the persons on this list of "Highly Cited Researchers" belong to the most influential one percent of their field worldwide. The benchmark is the frequency with which their scientific publications were cited by other researchers in the past decade (period from 2009 to 2019). The ranking is published annually by the "Web of Science Group" and contains around 6,200 scientists in 21 subject categories.

Following members of ImmunoSensation are named 'Highly Cited Researcher':

Monique M. B. Breteler
Michael T. Heneka
Eicke Latz
Mihai G. Netea
Joachim L. Schultze
Andreas Schlitzer

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