June 27 – Quality, prestige and excellence: the University of Parma is becoming increasingly international thanks to its research contributions. Most recently, five scholars from the University of Parma appeared in the “Highly Cited Researchers” of 2014 by Thomson-Reuters. The well-known American publisher, creator of the ISI-Web of Science, publishes every decade a list of about 3,000 academics who had the greatest “impact” in the world, based on the number of the citations in their fields of expertise. The 2014 ranking, released in the last few days, includes researchers from 55 Italian universities, of which five from the University of Parma: Furio Brighenti, Daniele Del Rio and Nicoletta Pellegrini from Department of Food Sciences, section of “Agricultural Sciences;” Giuseppe Mingione rom the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, section of “Mathematics;” and Giacomo Rizzolatti, Professor of Human Physiology in the Department of Neurosciences & Behavior.
