Among the world's most cited scientists

Fabian Theis is a "Highly Cited Researcher"

23 November 2021
Fabian Theis

Prof. Dr. Fabian Theis has been named a "Highly Cited Researcher" according to an analysis of the database "Web of Science". It lists scientific publications from a broad range of subjects and fields. The total number of citations of a paper is a good indicator of the quality of the research behind it. 

Highly Cited Researchers 2021

The database is operated by the US-based company Clarivate. Every year, they publish an analysis that determines the researchers worldwide that were quoted most often by peer from their own and other areas of research. The latest results concerns highly cited publications from the last decade, 2010 to 2020, which significant influence various subject areas.

Scientists who were cited not only in their own, but in multiple fields, are listed in the category "Cross-Field" - among those Fabian Theis, Professor of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Zentrum München. 

In total, the list mentions 6,600 researchers without particular order. Apart from Prof. Theis, eleven more scientists from TUM are listed in five categories. You can find out which ones in the official press release by the TUM.