Congratulations to Professor Mark Stitt, Dr John Lunn (both Max Planck Institute), Professor Dan Voytas (University of Minnesota) and Professor Dirk Inzé (Ghent University) who have been named in the Highly Cited Researchers list for 2019. The list recognizes the world’s most influential researchers, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.