Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s ‘top in UK’
Queen’s University’s School of chemistry and chemical engineering has confirmed its position as a world leader in research, outranking Oxford and Cambridge to take the UK’s number one spot for research citations per academic paper.
Queen’s emerged as the leading institution in the UK in the survey by Thomson Reuters, which was based on the number of references to papers by Queen’s chemists between January 2001 and April 2011 in more than 500 academic journals.
The accolade caps an exceptional year for the School, which recently confirmed its position as a world-class centre of research after being placed in the Global Top 100 in the QS University World Rankings.
And it follows the rankings earlier this year of Professor Ken Seddon and Dr John Holbrey as the top two of only four UK chemists in the Times Higher Education listing of the world’s 100 Top Chemists of the Past Decade.
Welcoming the news, the Head of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Professor Chris Hardacre, said: “These are outstanding results which recognise the excellence of the School’s staff, and the University’s commitment to invest in disciplines which advance scientific knowledge and underpin future prosperity.
“We operate in a global higher education environment and in challenging economic times, and it is vital that we ensure that our work is recognised internationally.
“Thirty per cent of the School’s students come from outside the UK, and our academics lead the way in working with international partners in academia and industry. These collaborations in the areas of Green Chemistry and Catalysis range from partnerships including with the Malaysian Fortune 500 company Petronas, Johnson Matthey, Givaudan, Proctor and Gamble, Shell and General Electric through our research centres QUILL and CenTACat.
“In addition, our strong links with the Forensic Science service have allowed us to become world-leading in detecting drugs of abuse, while our Medicinal Chemistry Group is developing libraries for drug identification and recently secured a major new contract with Almac and Invest NI.”
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