Dickinson State University (DSU) is proud to announce that Dr. Eric Brevik, professor of geology and soils, has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate in the category of cross-field research.

The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index. 

The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. It also uses the tallies to identify the countries and research institutions where these scientific elite are based. 

“This is a totally unexpected honor,” said Dr. Brevik. “It is humbling to appear on a list with all of these distinguished scholars.” 

David Pendlebury, senior citation analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said, “In the race for knowledge, it is human capital that is fundamental and this list identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers at Dickinson State University who are having a great impact on the research community as measured by the rate at which their work is being cited by others.” 

The full 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list and executive summary can be found online here.