Furthermore, the news of WOS emphasizes that in 2024, the Highly Cited Researchers are only from 59 countries and regions. While only 10 top scientific countries dominated ~85% of the whole works. In addition, from these 10 countries, 6 (US, Mainland China, U.K., Germany, Australia, and Canada) of the top nations contributed ~77% as top global research talented researchers.Â
It is amazing to state that US is still contributing the largest number of world highly cited researchers with about 2507 scientists following by China scientists with 1405 researchers.Â
The main question is "What is the most significant work contribution of the publications impacts: "Citations vs Number of Papers"?
In order to answer such very important question, there will be a lot of research works have to be carried out by opening the whole files  of 6,886 Highly Cited Researchers (WOW, 2024).Â
In this short article, we tried to simplify the solution by evaluating our Indonesia top physicists.
We obtained from SCOPUS free access data (source url: https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri ) that there are only 9 Indonesia physicists who have citations over 3000 citations as depicted in the following figure:The
The general reason why over 3000 citations in SCOPUS/ WOS is the international standard for highly cited researchers is that it is not very easy for an international scholar to achieve such high citations even after over 20 years of hard works and publications.
From our deep search, we found that many active Indonesia physicists with publications over 100 papers indexed by SCOPUS are still hard to reach over 3000 citations. Here are the list of high profile Indonesia physicists and their top citations in SCOPUS (dated on 4th January 2025):
1. Prof. Rosari Saleh  (number of publications = 197, total citations = 2,656)
2. Prof. Kuwat Triyana (number of publications = 207 , Â total citations = 2,917)
