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OVER the last decade, between 2009 and 2019, 13 highly cited Malaysian researchers published 3,422 papers.
And, the majority of these were funded by varsities, according to the recently released Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) 2020 list.
Some of the top funding universities of these highly cited papers were Universiti Malaya (21% of papers), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (12% of papers) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (7% of papers).
“We have been working closely with Malaysian institutions to support and drive research excellence.
“These researchers have a great impact on the research community as measured by the rate at which their work is being cited by others, ” said Clarivate Analytics vice-president and South and Southeast Asia head Arvind Pachhapur in a statement.