Pauline van den Driessche on Thompson Reuter's List of the Worlds Most Influential Scientists

Pauline van den Driessche was selected to the Thompson Reuter's 2014 list of the worlds most influential scientists.  In all,  3,215 researchers from around the world were selected this year, including 99 mathematicians.   Pauline is the only Canadian Mathematician to make the list in 2014!  In all, four UVic scientists made the list this year.

The Thompson Reuters ranking is not a simple citation count, but rather looks at papers only in the  top 1% of the field by citation (mathematics in this case). The methodology can be found here: http://highlycited.com/info.htm#explanation

A searchable list of the 2014 most Highly cited researchers is here: http://highlycited.com/

Congratulations Pauline!