The prestigious American university Stanford (https://www.stanford.edu/) recently updated its global list of researchers most frequently cited by their peers for their work.
This list includes 186,177 names, representing the top 2% of the world’s most influential researchers.
5,912 of these individuals are affiliated with French institutions, representing 3.17% of those cited.
Among them, 58 are based in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, working at educational and research institutions, research organizations, and university hospitals.
Of these 58 individuals, 5 are faculty members at the Belfort-Montbéliard University of Technology:
>Maurizio CIRRINCIONE, university professor, scientific field: “electrical and electronic engineering”;
>Christian CODDET,university professor, scientific field: “materials”;
>Fei GAO, university professor, scientific field: “energy”;
>Hanlin LIAO, university professor, scientific field: “materials”;
>Ghislain MONTAVON, university professor, scientific field: “materials.”
The Stanford study is based on an analysis of SCOPUS, the world's largest database of citations and abstracts from peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.