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Kowhang Emeritus Professor Jong-whan Rhim of the Dept. of Food and Nutrition and Professor Sangwon Park of Smart Tourism Education Platform(STEP) joined the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers

Professors Jong-whan Rhim and Sang-won Park were named among the 2022 World’s 1% Highly Cited Researchers(HCR) by Clarivate Analytics(Formerly Thomson Reuters). Clarivate analyitics uses the Web of Science databased provided by Clarivate Analytics for the annual nomination of HCRs. Research results upto ten years prior to the selection year are considered, this year, published articles and number of citations between 2011 and 2021 were analyzed to nominate a total of 7,225 researchers from around the world in 22 academic fields.

Professor Jong-whan Rhim, a leading authority in the development of biodegradable and functional nanocomposite packaging materials
Professor Rhim was selected in the field of Agricultural Science, as he has been a leading authority in the field of biodegradable and functional nanocomposite packaging materials. He has published more than 240 papers in domestic and international academic journals over the past 30 years. In 2019, he won the 5th Daesang Hanlim Food Science Award in recognition of his research achievements. He is also the winner of 2014 Korea Food Packaging Society Academic Award, the 2015 Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning Knowledge Creation Award, and the 2017 Korea Food Science Society Academic Award. Professor Lim has been named as an HCR for seven consecutive years since 2016.

Professor Rhim has devoted most of his career to the development of functional biodegradable packaging materials using biopolymers. Packaging materials made with biopolymers made from proteins or carbohydrates extracted from animals and plants are naturally degradable while being safe for human consumption and animal feed. The development of biodegradable plastics is becoming increasingly crucial environmentally and commercially as a way to solve the problem of waste microplastics in the wild.

Professor Sangwon Park is building a Korean tourism industry system through research on marketing, technology, and big data
Professor Park, who came to Kyung Hee in 2021, was named as an HCR in the field of social science. Previously, he taught at the University of Surrey in the UK and the University of Technology in Hong Kong. He also received the Rookie of the Year award in the field of tourism from the International Academy of the Study of Tourism in 2019. In early 2022, he received the IFITT 2021 Journal Paper of the Year Award at the ENTER21 conference hosted by the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) for his article titled, “Spatial structures of tourism destinations: A trajectory data mining approach leveraging mobile big data” published in Annals of Tourism Research.

Professor Park's main research interests include hotel tourism marketing, technology, and big data. He said, “I came back to Korea after 20 years with the appointment at Kyung Hee, and I set a personal goal of establishing a system for the Korean tourism industry. We are trying to raise Korea's tourism to a level that other countries will benchmark. Based on my experience in a number of projects with the British Ministry of Economy and the Hong Kong government, I have conducted tourism analysis projects using big data in cooperation with the Korea Tourism Organization and Jeju Tourism Organization with promising results.”

2022 Kyung Hee HCRs 2% 

Elsevier has publicly released a database of World’s Top 2% highly cited scientists for 2023. The ranking list is created based on the bibliometric information retrieved from Scopus as of 1 September 2022, with the data updated to the end of citation year 2021. To create the database of top-cited scientists, a group of scientists at Stanford University developed a ranking method based on standarized citation metrics which considers total author number and author position.

 

Kyung Hee University ranks as the 8th institution in Korea with 45 researchers were nominated as part of the world’s top 2% researchers in 2022. Including in Kyung Hee Family Corporate body such as Kyung Hee Medical Center, Kyung Hee’s nominees are total 87 staffs both in Seoul and Global Campus.

 

Scientists worldwide are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. The top scientists placed in a percentile rank of 2% or above in a sub-field are shortlisted and ranked based on their c-score (i.e. a composite indicator). The c-score focuses on impact (citations) rather than productivity (number of publications). It also incorporates information on co-authorship and author positions (single, first, last author).

The analysis was conducted on researchers worldwide who have published a minimum of 5 papers in 22 major academic fields and 174 specific subject areas, the updated database (ver. 5) provides standardized information on citations, using six key evaluation indicators including total citations and h-index. The final selection was made on September 1, 2022. This news has been covered by various news outlets, highlighting the academic achievements of Kyung Hee University researchers on a global scale.

In Korea, total 1,881 researchers were selected as the world's top 2% researchers. Among them, the field with the largest number of researchers is Enabling & Strategic Technologies (516 researchers), followed by Clinical Medicine (299 researchers), Chemistry (237 researchers), Engineering (226 researchers), and Physics & Astronomy (207 researchers). You can find the Elsevier's database in following website (version 5):  https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/5

no.	Name of the researcher	College	Subject Field	Reference
1	Kwon, Ohbyung	College of Management	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
2	Lau, Antonio K.W.	College of Management	Business & Management
3	Lee, Choong Ki	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Sport, Leisure & Tourism
4	Yoon, Yooshik	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Sport, Leisure & Tourism
5	Chung, Namho	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Information Systems
6	Koo, Chulmo	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Information Systems
7	Park, Sangwon	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Sport, Leisure & Tourism
8	Kim, Myung Ja	College of Hotel & Toursim Management	Sport, Leisure & Tourism
9	Rhim, Jong Whan	College of Human Ecology	Food Science
10	Jang, Jin	College of Sciences	Applied Physics
11	Kwon, Jang Hyuk	College of Sciences	Applied Physics
12	Pode, Ramchandra	College of Sciences	Applied Physics
13	Bae, Jin Woo	College of Sciences	Microbiology
14	Kim, Hyo Joong	College of Sciences	Analytical Chemistry
15	Ha, Joohun	College of Medicine	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
16	Park, Eun Jung	College of Medicine	Toxicology
17	Oh, In Hwan	College of Medicine	General & Internal Medicine
18	Kim, Dokyoung	Kyung Hee Medical Center	Organic Chemistry
19	Won, Chang Won	Kyung Hee Medical Center	General & Internal Medicine
20	Song, Sang Jun	Kyung Hee Medical Center	Orthopedics
21	Ryu, Chang Woo	Kyung Hee Medical Center	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
22	Moon, Ju Young	College of Medicine	Urology & Nephrology
23	Kim, Sunyoung	Kyung Hee Medical Center	General & Internal Medicine
24	Kwon, Il Keun	College of Dentistry	Biomedical Engineering
25	Lee, Sang Cheon	College of Dentistry	Polymers
26	Kim, Joungmok	College of Dentistry	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
27	Kim, Sung Hoon	College of Korean Medicine	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
28	Lim, Sabina	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
29	Bae, Hyunsu	College of Korean Medicine	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
30	Ko, Seong Gyu	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
31	Cho, Ik Hyun	College of Korean Medicine	Neurology & Neurosurgery
32	Um, Jae Young	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
33	Lee, Hyangsook	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
34	Chae, Younbyoung	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
35	Ahn, Kwang Seok	College of Korean Medicine	Oncology & Carcinogenesis
36	Kim, Woojin	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
37	Park, Jinbong	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
38	Lee, In Seon	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
39	Lee, Byung Cheol	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
40	Kim, Tae Hun	College of Korean Medicine	Complementary & Alternative Medicine
41	Kim, Dong Hyun	College of Pharmacy	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
42	Lee, Kyung Tae	College of Pharmacy	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
43	Lee, Yong Sup	College of Pharmacy	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
44	Im, Dong soon	College of Pharmacy	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
45	Jang, Dae Sik	College of Pharmacy	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
46	Kim, Jong Ho	College of Pharmacy	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
47	Oh, Myung Sook	College of Pharmacy	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
48	Hwang, Jee In	College of Nursing Science	Nursing
49	Kim, Miji	The School of East-West Medical Science	Geriatrics
50	Choi, Samjin	Center for Converging Humanities	Microscopy
51	Lee, Bombi	Center for Converging Humanities	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
52	Oun, Ahmed A.	College of Human Ecology	Polymers
53	Rahman, Md Ataur	College of Korean Medicine	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
54	Roy, Swarup	College of Human Ecology	Polymers
55	An, Gynheung	Graduate school (Dept. of Plant Molecular Systems Biotechnology)	Plant Biology & Botany
56	Baek, Nam‑In ‑I	College of Life Sciences	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
57	Choi, Suk Ho	College of Applied Science	Applied Physics
58	Hong, Choong Seon	College of Software	Networking & Telecommunications
59	Hua, Yongbin	College of Engineering	Materials
60	Jeon, Jong Seong	College of Electronics & Information	Plant Biology & Botany
61	Jung, Ki Hong	College of Electronics & Information	Plant Biology & Botany
62	Khan, Latif U.	College of Software	Networking & Telecommunications
63	Kim, Chang Nyung	College of Engineering	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
64	Kim, Dae Ok	College of Engineering	Food Science
65	Kim, Hyungdae	College of Engineering	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
66	Kim, Jeong San	College of Applied Science	General Physics
67	Kim, Jihye	The School of East-West Medical Science	Nutrition & Dietetics
68	Kim, Jinsoo	College of Engineering	Energy
69	Kim, Minsoo	College of Applied Science	Microbiology
70	Kim, Ung Jin	College of Life Sciences	Polymers
71	Koo, Junemo	College of Engineering	Applied Physics
72	Kumar, Priyan Malarvizhi	College of Software	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
73	Lee, Chang Woo	College of Engineering	Applied Physics
74	Lee, Eun Yeol	College of Engineering	Biotechnology
75	Min, Booki	College of Engineering	Biotechnology
76	Noori, Md Tabish	College of Engineering	College of Engineering
77	Park, Min Sik	College of Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
78	Rhee, Kyong Yop	College of Engineering	Materials
79	Seo, Tae Seok	College of Engineering	Analytical Chemistry
80	Shin, Hyundong	College of Engineering	Networking & Telecommunications
81	Yang, Deok Chun	College of Life Sciences	Microbiology
82	Yoo, Chang Kyoo	College of Engineering	Chemical Engineering
83	Yu, Jae Su	College of Engineering	Applied Physics
84	Yun, Geun Young	College of Engineering	Building & Construction
85	Ikenberry, G. John	Kyung Hee University	International Relations
86	Jin, Byoungho Ellie	Kyung Hee University	Marketing
87	McGuire, Michael	Kyung Hee University	Political Science & Public Administration