- Four Florey researchers are recognised for their significant impact on the global scientific community in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List for 2024.
- Clarivate’s annual list recognises 1000 influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world, who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research.
- Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers which rank in the top one per cent by citations for their field over the past decade.
Four Florey researchers among the world’s most highly cited
Four outstanding Florey researchers have made the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list for 2024. An important measure of impact in medical research is how many times a publication has been cited by other research papers – this is an estimation of how useful the findings in the publication have been to the medical research community and beyond.
Professor Scott Ayton
Professor Scott Ayton is the Head of The Florey’s Dementia Mission, Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis (CREEDD) and and the Translational Neurodegeneration Group at The Florey.
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Professor Ashley Bush
Professor Ashley Bush is a practising psychiatrist, Clinical Lead of The Florey’s Mental Health Mission and Head of the Oxidation Biology Group.
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Professor Colin Masters
Professor Colin Masters is Head of The Florey’s Neurodegeneration and Neuropathology Group and a world-renowned neurologist whose monumental discovery of Aβ amyloid protein in Alzheimer’s disease shaped decades of global research into the disease.
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Professor Christopher Rowe
Professor Christopher Rowe is Clinical Lead in The Florey’s Dementia Mission, and Director of Director Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health. His key interest is on improving diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly dementia.
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Florey Director Professor Peter Van Wijngaarden said the four Highly Cited scientists were global research leaders.
Professors Ayton, Bush, Masters and Rowe are leaders of their respective fields.
“The Highly Cited Researchers List identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers who are having a measurable and significant impact on their field and on fellow researchers worldwide. I congratulate them and celebrate their enormous contributions to advancing our understanding of mental illnesses and dementia,” Professor Wijngaarden said.
