Professor Seung-Bok Choi (MEC) has placed in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide via Highly Ranked Scholars™, which ranks the most productive authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™, classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 Fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified within each Specialty, Discipline, and all Fields. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better. The data are based on lifetime activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors and excluding self-citations.
According to the analysis of the 177 Disciplines, The World Rank of Professor Choi is #188 in Mechanical Engineering, and the ranks of his specific fields are evaluated as follows: Vibration Control #1, Smart Material #3 and Optimal Design #15.
He is still actively serving as a journal editor for more than 15 international journals (SCI), including Smart Materials and Structures, Scientific Report and the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. The number of his publications to date is 890, based on Web of Science. Currently, he is a senior fellow of both the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK).
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