Franck Courchamp named the world's leading researcher in the field of invasion science
On 5 April 2025, Franck Courchamp was named the world's leading invasion science researcher in the 2024 Highly Ranked ScholarsTM ranking produced by ScholarGPS®, an independent database and research analysis platform designed by and for scholars.
Franck Courchamp is a CNRS research director at the Ecology, Society and Evolution laboratory (ESE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech). He was named the world's leading researcher in the field of invasion science by the ScholarGPS® Highly Ranked ScholarsTM ranking. The expert in animal population dynamics and conservation biology, who has already been named by Clarivate as one of the world's most highly cited researchers in its “Environment and Ecology” category four times, has once again demonstrated the excellence and impact of his research work with this new distinction.
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