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Cluster member among highly cited researcher

Annually the 'Highly Cited Researchers' are being announced by the 'Web of Science Group'.

At the University of Bonn 12 highly cited researcher are namend, among them are 6 members of the cluster of excellence ImmunoSensation.

According to the makers of the ranking, the people on this list of "Highly Cited Researchers" are among the most influential one percent of their subject. The measurement here is the frequency with which their scientific publications have been cited by other researchers in the past decade (period from 2008 to 2018). The ranking is published annually by the "Web of Science Group" and contains around 6,200 scientists in 21 subject categories.

Following members of ImmunoSensation2 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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