Ten of our INAR researchers were selected as Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers that are among the 1 % of the most cited researchers in their field in 2019: Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Douglas Worsnop, Mikael Ehn, Mikko Sipilä, Heikki Junninen, Jonathan Duplissy, Tuomo Nieminen and Ram Oren. This is 38 % of all the scientists (of any field) on that that list in Finland.
| GEOSCIENCES | May 2012 | May 2013 | May 2014 | May 2015 | May 2016 | May 2017 | May 2018 | May 2019 | Jan 2022 |
| Kulmala Markku | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 51 |
| Worsnop Douglas | 33 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 70 |
| Petäjä Tuukka | 912 | 456 | 288 | 148 | 78 | 51 | 53 | 79 | 80 |
| Kerminen Veli-Matti | 195 | 171 | 161 | 114 | 92 | 158 | 179 | 218 | 269 |
| Junninen Heikki | 1027 | 652 | 315 | 258 | 248 | 273 | |||
| Sipilä Mikko | 1379 | 825 | 422 | 329 | 278 | 303 | |||
| Laaksonen Ari | 274 | 169 | 164 | 104 | 85 | 140 | 141 | 137 | 417 |
| Ehn Mikael | 499 | 309 | 194 | 159 | 155 | 367 | |||
| Nieminen Tuomo | 1354 | 816 | 434 | 304 | 280 | 409 | |||
| Siegfried Schobesberger | 558 | 471 | |||||||
| Lehtipalo Katrianne | 1206 | 760 | 602 | 528 | |||||
| Duplissy Jonathan | 557 | 340 | 235 | 234 | 555 | ||||
| Bianchi Federico | 1275 | 638 | |||||||
| Jokinen Tuija | 1126 | 705 | |||||||
| Kurten Theo | 728 | 638 | 841 | ||||||
| Kangasluoma Juha | 1319 | 857 |