highly cited meaning
ISI Highly Cited. ISI Highly Cited is a database of highly cited researchersâscientific researchers whose publications are most often cited in academic journals over the past decade, published by the Institute for Scientific Information. For the Soviet Institute with the same name, see VINITI. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960. It was acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare in 1992, and became known as Thomson ISI.