Professor Christopher Rowe (L), Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO (M) and Professor Rinaldo Bellomo (R) recognised on a global stage

22 November 2024

Three Austin Health researchers are recognised for their significant impact on the global scientific community in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List for 2024!

Congratulations to Professor Christopher Rowe, Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO and Professor Rinaldo Bellomo for making this list.

Clarivate’s annual list recognises 1000 influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world, who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research.

Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers which rank in the top one per cent by citations for their field over the past decade.

An important measure of impact in medical research is how many times a publication has been cited by other research papers – this is an estimation of how useful the findings in the publication have been to the medical research community and beyond.

Professor Christopher Rowe

Professor Christopher Rowe is the Director of Director Molecular Imaging Research at Austin Health and the Clinical Lead in The Florey’s Dementia Mission. His key interest is on improving diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly dementia.

Christopher has 580 publications and has been cited more than 46,000 times.

Congratulations, Christopher!

Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO

Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer is one of the directors of our children and adult epilepsy programs at Austin Health, and has a long and distinguished history of epilepsy research including being part of the research group which pioneered major discoveries in the genetic causes of epilepsy, including finding the first epilepsy gene and many other epilepsy genes since.

Ingrid has 804 publications and has been cited more than 59,000 times.

Congratulations, Ingrid!

Professor Rinaldo Bellomo

Professor Rinaldo Bellomo is the Director of Intensive Care Research at Austin Health and holds a number of appointments across Victoria and Australia. Rinaldo's key interest is in sepsis and improving outcomes for patients.

Rinaldo has 2049 publications and has been cited more than 124,000 times.

Congratulations, Rinaldo!