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Two MPI Biology Tübingen Directors among the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2024

Ruth Ley and Detlef Weigel (from left to right) are listed among the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2024 for their eleventh consecutive year
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Ruth Ley and Detlef Weigel (from left to right) are listed among the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2024 for their eleventh consecutive year | Copyright: Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen | Download

Ruth Ley and Detlef Weigel are once again among Clarivate’s ranking of the top 1% by citations in their respective fields in 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. 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 centered 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.

Further information about the evaluation and selection process is here: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/evaluation-and-selection/.

Wissenschaftlicher Ansprechpartner:
Department of Microbiome Science, MPI Biology Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Ruth Ley
ruth.ley@tuebingen.mpg.de

Department of Molecular Biology, MPI Biology Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel
detlef.weigel@tuebingen.mpg.de

Press Office, MPI Biology Tübingen
Beatriz Lucas
presse-bio@tuebingen.mpg.de

Weitere Informationen:
https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/
https://www.bio.mpg.de/48843/microbiome-science-ruth-ley
https://www.bio.mpg.de/46510/molecularbiology
https://t.ly/fPatR

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