ASE Professor David Wardle on 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List
With the release of the 2019 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List on November 19, Professor David Wardle from the Asian School of the Environment retains his position as a ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ in the area of Ecology and Environment, and is the only Singapore-based researcher focused on the environmental sciences to appear in this year’s list. Researchers are selected for this list based on the number of highly cited publications (i.e., those in the top 1% of all publications) that they have authored during the past decade.
To appear on the ‘highly cited’ list in ecology would require publication of at least 8 or 9 papers in the past decade that are each recognized as being ‘highly cited’ or in the top 1% of publications in the field; Professor Wardle has more than double that, with 20 published papers over that period that are ‘highly cited’. The work that has led to him getting this recognition include both conceptual and empirical contributions in community and ecosystem ecology, including aboveground-belowground linkages, the ecology of really old soils, the ecosystem impacts of invasive organisms, global change effects on ecosystems, ecological responses to elevation, and the importance of biodiversity for humanity.
Professor Wardle has appeared on every Highly Cited list released since 2006, and consistently among the world’s 20 most cited ecologists worldwide since 2007 according to Essential Science Indicators (currently 5th, and the most cited outside of the US and continental Europe). He is one of 28 highly cited researchers announced on November 19 that are from NTU, with all but one of the remainder based at the College of Engineering and the School of Physical and Mathematical Science.
The 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list can be seen in its entirety at https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2019/