Three professors from the Czech Academy of Sciences on the List of the Most Cited Scientists of the World
On the list of Highly Cited Researchers, issued by ISI Thomson Reuters, 3,125 scientists from the entire world appeared this year. Only four of them are from the Czech Republic. Prof. Petr Pyšek and Prof. Vojtěch Jarošík from the Institute of Botany of the CAS and Prof. Pavel Hobza from Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS figure in the list. Next to them, the physician Prof. Petr Widimský from Charles University in Prague is also there. The head of the Department of Invasion Ecology Prof. Petr Pyšek is among the most cited scientists for the second time already – he was on the list also in 2014. Also Prof. Pavel Hobza is on the list for the second time and is the most cited Czech scientist of all. He currently devotes himself to so-called non-covalent interactions and their applications, particularly the computer design of new drugs.
Prof. Pavel Hobza
(photo on the left) works at the
Institute of
Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS.
Prof. Petr Pyšek deals with the study of biological invasion and their consequences at the
Institute of Botany of the CAS. He has been the investigator of large international projects such
as DAISIE Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe or ALARM – Assessing Large scale
environmental Risk for biodiversity with tested Methods. Currently, he is one of the main
investigators of the excellence project of the Plant Diversity Analysis and Synthesis Centre (PLADIAS). In 2010, he was awarded the
prize Praemium Academiae.
Prof. Vojtěch Jarošík has devoted himself to the research of biological invasion at the
Institute of Botany of the CAS; he has participated mainly in the treatment of statistical data.
The inclusion of Prof. Jarošík among the most cited scientists in the world shows that his work
still has a great response in the scientific community, despite his premature death two years
ago.
Prof. Pyšek (on the left in the photo) and Prof. Jarošík (on the right) at a joint work residence in New Zealand in 2011.
The whole list is available
here.
Prepared by: Institute of Botany and Department of Media Communications of the Head Office of
the CAS
5 Oct 2015
