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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.