In November 2021, Dr. FUJITA Yasunari, Project Leader of the Bioresources and Post-harvest Division of JIRCAS, has been selected by Clarivate Analytics of the USA as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Plant and Animal Sciences for the eighth consecutive year.

Each year, Clarivate, a company providing analytics of scientific and academic research, identifies the world's most influential researchers who have published multiple papers frequently by their peers in the past decade. The year 2021 saw the selection of approximately 6,700 researchers from around the world across 21 research fields and multiple disciplines.

Project Leader FUJITA aims to lead the development of resilient crops through molecular biological research related to stress tolerance of plants, and has been cited in various research papers on environmental stress.

References

Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
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Highly Cited Researchers 2021
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