Highly Cited Researchers 2025: four CRC researchers on the list.

19/11/2025

Once again this year, the Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers is featured on Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), with four researchers already listed last year.

The HCR list identifies scientists whose publications in the Web of Science are among the 1% most cited over the last decade, classified by disciplinary field. They represent the researchers with the greatest impact and influence in their field.

Jessica Zucman-Rossi: MD-PhD, Professor at the University of Paris and the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou (AP-HP) – Current Director of the Cordeliers Research Center and Director of the Functional Genomics of Solid Tumors team at CRC. Cross field category.

Wolf Hervé Fridman: Group leader at Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers in the Inflammation, Complement and Cancer team. Historic CRC founder. Cross field category.
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Catherine Sautès-Fridman: Co-group leader in the Inflammation, Complement and Cancer team. Cross field category.
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Jérôme Galon: Director of the Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology at CRC. Winner of the 2019 European Inventor Award. Co-founder of Veracyte (formerly HalioDX). Identified as a HCR by Clarivate since 2020. Cross Field category.
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This year, 7131 researchers from 60 countries/regions are ranked HCR. France ranks 10th worldwide, with 121 researchers identified in all fields.

See the full list of HCRs and the methodology used on the Clarivate website.