A Nigerian Professor Make List of Highly Cited Researchers 2019

Professor Umezuruike Linus Opara
A Nigerian Professor in the area Posthavest Technology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Professor Umezuruike Linus Opara has make the list of the Web of Science's Highly Cited Researchers 2019.

The list which is a yearly publication is meant to recognise the world most influential researchers of the past years demonstrated by the production of highly cited papers that ranked in the top 1% for field and years in Web of Science.

More than 1200 institutions from across 60 countries of the world are represented on Web of Science: an independent world leader in publication of global citation database.

This year's award - Highly Cited Researchers - list represent just 6300 or 0.1% of the world reseachers across 21 research field.


Profile of Umezuruike Linus Opara on Web of Science revealed that the Professor has a total of 237 publication to his credits with 3985 total time of citation and citation index of 31.

Professor Umezuruike Linus Opara is Reseacher at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a Chair of Posthavest Technology at the prestigious university.  He is a Chartered Agricultural Engineer and Certified Food Scientist.

He serves as the President of the  International  Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR)

Professor Opara is an Alumni of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he bagged BEng (First Class Degree Honour) in Agricultural Engineering in 1987 and MEng in Agricultural Engineering in 1989.

Prior to joining Stellenbosch  University in 2009, he was once a Reseacher at Massey University, New Zealand where he earned his PhD degree in Agricultural Engineering.

He is the Chairman Board of Directors of Greenage Technologies Power Systems Limited, an Original Equipment Manufacturing company that is based in Enugu.