Stanford University research team in the US analyzed DB of the world’s largest academic journal citation indicators to announce the top scientists
Only one in Korea in the ‘transportation sector’
Dealing with traffic big data, traffic safety, and autonomous driving cars, etc. as major research sectors
[January 8, 2021]
YU Department of Urban Planning and Engineering Professor Jung Yeon-shik (49) was selected as the top 2% scientists per global academic sector published by Stanford University in the US.
A research team at Stanford recently used Scopus data to evaluate the life-long accomplishment sector and 2019 yearly achievement sector to publish a list of the top 2% scientist list for academic sectors in the entire world. Scopus is the world’s largest academic journal citation index database created by the publishing company Elsevier of the Netherlands in 2004.
The research team evaluated researchers who published at least five theses in each academic sector based on a total of six index values, and provided information of the top researchers per sector in the database.
Professor Jung was included in the top 2% of the 21,274 researchers who published more than five theses in the ‘logistics and transportation’ sector. There were only two domestic researchers included in the top 2% in the ‘logistics and transportation’ sector, and when excluding the researcher in the logistics sector, Professor Jung is the only Korean included in the ‘traffic’ sector.
Professor Jung earned his PhD in traffic engineering at the University of California, Irvine in 2007 and has been serving as a professor of urban planning and engineering since 2016. He is mainly involved in education and research activities in fields that have recently become major issues such as traffic big data, traffic safety, and autonomous driving vehicles.
