Two years in a row, the head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Prof. Peter Valent, has been honored with the Medicine Leader Award from Research.com.

Research.coms “goal is to inspire researchers, businessmen and politicians around the world to explore where leading experts are heading and to offer a way for the entire research community to discover who the leading experts are in specific disciplines, in various countries, or even within research institutions.”

Research.com is an academic platform for researchers that publishes rankings based on D-Index metrics (Discipline H-Index), i.e. rankings of the world’s most frequently cited scientists.