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To commemorate the 117th anniversary of Korea University, 2022 Seok-Top Research Awardees were announced and four of our researchers from departments of medicine and nursing are among them.

Gyeongae Seomun

Department of Nursing

Research field

Nursing management, informatics

Research highlight

Development and validation of the medication safety competence scale for nurses. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 43(7), 686-697, 2021, (IF: 1.967, 52.02%).

Chol Shin

Department of Medicine,

Sleep Medicine Research (Editor-in-Chief)

Research field

Division of Pulmonology

Research highlight

Association of pericardial adipose tissue with left ventricular structure and function: A region-specific effect?. Cardiovascular Diabetology, 20(1), 26, 2021, (IF: 7.185).

Byungchul Chun

Department of Medicine

Infection & Chemotherapy (Associate Editor), Clinical & Experimental Vaccine Research (Editor), Epidemiology & Health (Editor)

Research field

Research field: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Spatial Epidemiology Research highlight

Research highlight

Trends in Viral Respiratory Infections During COVID-19 Pandemic, South Korea, 2021. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(6), 1685-1688, 2021,

(IF 6.883, Q1, WoS in 2020).

Sungok Chang

Department of Nursing

Journal of Advanced Nursing (Reviewer),

Asian Nursing Research (Reviewer)

Research field

Fundamentals of nursing

Research highlight

The development and effectiveness of combining case-based online lecture and simulation programs to facilitate interprofessional function care training in nursing homes. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 38(12), 646-656, 2021, (IF: 1.321).

The Seok-Top Research Award has been held since 2016 to publicize and reward professors who achieved outstanding research achievements to improve and encourage research motivation. Based on last year’s academic research, book, and  research funding achievement, the assessment for the award is conducted by adding up the quality of research, the amount of research funding received, the number of research for 3% of each research field, and the main author of Nature, Science, Cell and main author published with international cooperation.