The list of „highly cited researchers” for 2016 has been released (www.highlycited.com). This year 3087 researchers from 22 science disciplines were recognized from all over the world, whose publications were most frequently cited between 2004 and 2014, and the list (similarly as in 2014 and 2015) includes Dr. Pál Pacher, external scientific advisor of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy and Doctor Honoris Causa of Semmelweis University, (current researcher at NIH, USA).