UQ recognised in Highly Cited Researcher awards

This article was updated in February 2025 to reflect updates to Clarivate’s 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list.

The University of Queensland received the equal highest number of Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) awards in Australia.

UQ received 39 awards in the 2024 Clarivate HCR list and is the 26^th most awarded institution globally, in equal place with the University of Melbourne.

Professor Philip Hugenholtz and Dr Donovan Parks received more than one Highly Cited Researcher award, and 5 made the list for the first time.

Highly Cited Researchers with UQ affiliation

• Professor Bhesh Bhandari – Agricultural Sciences
• Professor Mark Blaskovich – Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Dr Mark Butler – Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Professor Scott Chapman – Cross-Field
• Mr Pierre-Alain Chaumeil – Cross-Field
• Dr Maria Chuvochina– Cross-Field
• Professor Matthew Cooper – Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Professor Thomas Davis – Cross-Field
• Associate Professor Holly Erskine – Cross-Field
• Professor David Fairlie – Cross-Field
• Dr Alize Ferrari – Psychiatry and Psychology
• Professor Richard Fuller – Cross-Field
• Professor Jianhua Guo – Cross-Field
• Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall – Cross-Field
• Professor Ben Hayes – Cross-Field
• Professor Philip Hugenholtz – Biology and Biochemistry; Microbiology
• Dr Valentino Kaneti – Cross-Field
• Professor Carl Lavie – Clinical Medicine
• Professor Catherine Lovelock – Cross-Field
• Professor John McGrath – Psychiatry and Psychology
• Professor Peter Mumby – Cross-Field
• Dr Donovan Parks – Biology and Biochemistry; Microbiology
• Professor Hugh Possingham – Environment and Ecology
• Professor Brent Ritchie – Social Sciences
• Professor Jason Roberts – Cross-Field
• Emeritus Professor Michael Roberts – Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Professor Avril Robertson – Cross-Field
• Professor Kate Schroder – Cross-Field
• Professor James Scott – Psychiatry and Psychology
• Professor Kevin Thomas – Cross-Field
• Professor Peter Visscher – Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Professor Lianzhou Wang – Materials Science
• Professor James Watson – Environment and Ecology
• Professor Harvey Whiteford – Psychiatry and Psychology
• Professor Naomi Wray – Cross-Field
• Dr Zhe Yang – Cross-Field
• Professor Xiwang Zhang – Cross-Field

The annual HCR list recognises and celebrates researchers who have published a significant number of papers between 2013 to 2023 in the top 1% most cited in their field and year of publication.

The full 2024 Highly Cited Researcher list is available online.