According to Clarivate Analytics, the deputy director of HIU is still one of the world’s most influential researchers in 2017: his work belongs to the first one percent of the most cited papers in his field of research. This applies in particular to the frequency of citations within the year of publication.
Already last year, Thomson Reuters included Prof. Passerini into the list of ” World´s most influential scientific minds of 2015″.
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Clarivate Analytics originally belonged to the media group Thomson Reuters, but was spun off in 2016. Since then it acts as an independent company, whose services are to be found in the area of analyses. Inter alia, the online database Web of Science is part of to the company.