In HCR – the researchers included on the 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list
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• The HCR list contains a blend of very different scientists (the citations from the Google Scholar score can differ by 10x - 30x).
• The HCR list was filtered in easy cases (e.g., the scientists from High Energy Physics were removed even though they can have hundreds of thousands of citations, but they co-author only 'ultra-multi-author papers'; see Scientists B and D).
• Unfortunately, the HCR list still contains some artefacts, e.g., scientists with an average contribution of ~3% (frequent in Clinical Medicine).
• While the HCR list aggregates the most cited scientists, little has been done to compare within this group (the only information known is how many highly cited papers they co-authored). You know very little about the people on the list, and you can only assume that they have many citations and a high H-index.
• Using fCite, you can easily compare any scientists you wish; for instance the H-index values for Scientists M and N are almost identical. By checking the number of citations, you start to suspect that Scientist M is slightly better, but after profiling by fCite, you see that there is a substantial difference between those two. The former is at least twice as good as the latter (compare, for instance, the FLAE/RCR ratio, FLAE_Cit, the number of papers, their division into research and non-research contributions, etc.).
• As the major condition to be included in the HCR list is to be the (co-)author of as many as possible of the top 1% of cited publications (almost regardless of the number of the authors), the list misses some of the world’s outstanding scientists (e.g., Scientist C has an FLAE_RCR of over 1000 derived from just 33-35 articles!!!).
• However, another key feature of fCite is the possibility to create a profile ad hoc; for instance, Scientist A does not have a Google Scholar profile (as is the case for many prominent, old-school scientists), and it would be difficult to assess such a person, but with fCite, this takes only a matter of minutes to do.

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