WRS -- ISI HighlyCited

This week's spotlight is on The Institute for Scientific Information's ISIHighlyCited. This resource, from the same folks that give you Science Citation Index, allows researchers to search for information a specific researcher, or to identify the most highly cited individuals in any of a number of scientific fields.

From the main page the "Search" link allows you to search for a specific researcher by name, allowing limitations for country, institution, and field. The "Browse" link allows you to browse the list of most highly cited individuals in a given field, country, or institution. The names returned link to an individual researcher page with biographical information, contact information, simple vita, and a link to publication lists. The entries in the publication list are hyperlinked to ISI's abstract for that publication. One flaw is that the resource does not currently support a ranked list of researchers -- it simply returns the researchers ISI has determened as the most highly cited in an alphabetical listing.