HKU #1 in Coronavirus Research Worldwide

According to Microsoft Academic, HKU leads the way in terms of saliency, number of citations, publications and H-Index in coronavirus research throughout the years and has been named by Times Higher Education as one of the “powerful research clusters that have developed globally in the field of coronavirus research in recent years”.

Cluster effects: Powerful collaborations working on coronaviruses

It shows a number of powerful research clusters that have developed globally in the field in recent years, with particular centres of expertise at the University of Hong Kong (which was closely involved in work on Sars), in the US (most prominently involving the University of North Carolina), in Europe (centred around Utrecht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam) and in the Middle East (likely a reflection of research on Mers).

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