Congratulations to Mark Stitt, John Lunn (both Max Planck Institute), Robert Furbank (Australian National University) Dan Voytas (University of Minnesota) and Dirk Inzé (Ghent University) who have been named in the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2021. 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.