According to ESI paper database released on Feb. 27, 51 papers written by UPC Scholars were included by ESI in the last ten year. In 2016, there were 15 papers on the list among which two were hot papers. 

    The fifteen highly cited papers involved six disciplines, engineering, environmental ecology, material, chemical engineering, computer science, interdisciplinary science.

     The Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database, launched by Thomson Scientific/ISI in 2001, is a compilation of statistical information (publication, citation, and cites-per-paper counts) for scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. It is based on 10 years of Thomson Reuters data. The ESI highly cited papers selects the top 1% of articles by total citations in each annual cohort from each discipline in the recent ten years and hot papers refers to the top 1% of articles by total citations in each annual cohort from each discipline in the recent two months and the articles publshed in the recent two years. 

Editor: Bu Lingduo

Source: UPC News Center