For the 5th year in a row, he is on the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" and thus belongs to the top one percent of the most cited scientists. This places him among the research elite.
In 2021, there are 43 researchers working in Austria on this list, 6 more than in the previous year. The share of Austrians could thus be increased from 0.6 to 0.7 percent.