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Radek Zbořil, chemist at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, has been included in the world list of Highly Cited Researchers

Radek Zbořil, chemist at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, has been included in the world list of Highly Cited Researchers
One of the Highly Cited Researcher awards is going to VSB - Technical University of Ostrava (VSB-TUO) again this year. Radek Zbořil from the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) at VSB-TUO has again made it to the prestigious list of scientists who are among the pioneers in their fields and whose work has a high scientific and social impact. The list is published annually by Clarivate Analytics.

This year, it includes about 6,600 scientists, including 24 Nobel Prize winners, as well as ten researchers who listed their main place of work as Czech research institutes or universities. 

Physical chemist Radek Zbořil has been working at VSB-TUO since 2020. This is the second time in a row that he has brought the Highly Cited Researcher award to VSB-TUO, but it is the fourth time in a row that he has been included in this elite society of scientists.

It is not easy to repeatedly stay on the list of the world's most cited scientists in an increasingly competitive world. The key to success is the right choice of topics and the ability to identify key challenges in the field. And, of course, a great team of scientists who can turn ideas into insights and sell them in the world's top journals. That's the kind of people I have around me. My gratitude and a piece of this award belongs to each and every one of my colleagues in Ostrava and Olomouc,” commented Zbořil, who heads the Materials and Environmental Laboratory of the Nanotechnology Centre at CEET. He also works at Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN) at Palacký University, Olomouc. His main focus is on the development of new low-dimensional nanomaterials for applications in medicine, chemistry, environmental cleaning technologies, and energy. 

The 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list contains the names of approximately 6,600 scientists representing 1,300 institutions from 70 countries. These are researchers whose publications are among the top one percent of the most cited papers in their field. The list is based on an analysis of publications from the last ten years according to the Web of Science database.

Most of the representatives from the Czech Republic work primarily in institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. These include phytochemist Ondřej Novák, microbiologist Petr Baldrian, ecologists Petr Pyšek and Jan Pergl, physicist Tomáš Jungwirth and botanist Francesco de Bello. Roman Pavela represents the Crop Research Institute. Domestic universities are cited as the main home institution in only three cases - besides VSB-TUO, there are also the University of Hradec Králové, for which its rector Kamil Kuča made it to the list, and Masaryk University, where Dmitriy Chudakov works.

The United States of America has the largest representation on the list, with almost 40 percent. Mainland China continues to make great strides forward, boasting an all-time high of 934 highly cited researchers this year. The UK is third with 492 researchers. Neighbouring Germany has 330 representatives, Austria 46, Poland six and Slovakia four.

Created: 18. 11. 2021
Category:  News
Department: 9390 - Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies
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