Two MPI Biology Tübingen Directors and a Postdoc among the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2024
Ruth Ley, Detlef Weigel and Postdoc William Anthony Walters “Tony” are once again among Clarivate’s ranking of the top 1% by citations in their respective fields on the Web of Science™.
Clarivate Analytics, which provides the Web of Science™ database, has announced this year’s outstanding researchers for 2024. For the past ten years, Ruth Ley, Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, and Detlef Weigel, Director of the Department of Molecular Biology, have been recognised as recipients of the Highly Cited Researcher Award. For William Anthony Walters “Tony”, a postdoc in the Department of Microbiome Science, this will be his fourth consecutive year to receive this recognition. The high number of citations of their work underscores the significance and impact of their work in their field of study.
According to Clarivate Analytics, the top researchers worldwide have a substantial and wide-ranging impact on their subject. In the last decade, the chosen scholars have written several "Highly Cited Papers" in the top 1% of the Web of Science™ citation index regarding citations in their field and year of publication.
Ruth Ley, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen from 2022 to 2024 and the Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, whose work is centred around the ecology and evolutionary origins of the microbiota in the human gut and its influence on host physiology and evolution.
Detlef Weigel is the Director of the Department of Molecular Biology, whose research focuses on the evolution of adaptive traits in plants and the interaction of plant populations with pathogens and other microbes.
William “Tony” Walters is a postdoc in the Department of Microbiome Science, whose work is on the gut microbiome and illness in infant development. He has been recognised as a highly cited researcher since 2018.
Further information about the evaluation and selection process is here: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/evaluation-and-selection/.