Ninety-three Researchers From College Make World’s Top-Cited Scientists Lists
Ninety-three researchers from the Tickle College of Engineering made Stanford University’s lists of the world’s top 2 percent of most cited scientists in their fields, bringing validation to their work and a bit of prestige as well.
Stanford creates annual single-year and career-long lists of the world’s most cited scientists by compiling Scopus data provided by Elsevier to come up with a composite score that considers the wide variety of citations, such as whether the person was sole author or one of many, for example. Stanford then lists researchers by that score, with the result being a ranking of the top 2 percent of cited scientists from around the world. Scientists are classified in 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. The career-long list includes data updated to the end of 2022 and the single-year list pertains to citations received during the 2022 calendar year.
“These rankings highlight the high impact work that our tremendous faculty and students are doing in our research programs,” said Dean Matthew Mench, the Wayne T. Davis Dean’s Chair of the college. “Citations of our research activity from others is an important measure of the level of innovation and discovery we are driving through our research programs. These rankings are one measure of the leadership that the Tickle College of Engineering demonstrates in various engineering disciplines.”
Single Year Impact
| Person | Score | Field (As listed by Stanford) |
|---|---|---|
| Steven Zinkle | 3.8331 | Energy |
| Arthur Ragauskas | 3.8192 | Biotechnology |
| Zhanhu Guo | 3.7553 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| William Weber | 3.5729 | Applied Physics |
| Easo George | 3.5506 | Materials |
| Peter Liaw | 3.5421 | Materials |
| Suresh Babu | 3.4783 | Materials |
| Takeshi Egami | 3.4416 | Applied Physics |
| Bimal Bose* | 3.4081 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Sergei Kalinin | 3.4039 | Applied Physics |
| Fangxing Li | 3.3689 | Energy |
| Baoshan Huang | 3.3050 | Logistics and Transportation |
| Jack Dongarra | 3.2880 | Distributed Computing |
| Fei Wang | 3.2666 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Yanwen Zhang | 3.1692 | Applied Physics |
| Rigoberto Advincula | 3.1680 | Polymers |
| T. G. Nieh* | 3.1434 | Materials |
| Matthew Mench | 3.0931 | Energy |
| Yanfei Gao | 3.0785 | Materials |
| Asad Khattak | 3.0639 | Logistics & Transportation |
| Terry Hazen | 3.0376 | Microbiology |
| Leon Tolbert | 3.0359 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Audris Mockus | 3.0278 | Software Engineering |
| Tony Schmitz | 3.0270 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Brian Wirth | 3.0190 | Energy |
| Caleb Rucker | 2.9772 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Michael Danquah | 2.9616 | Biotechnology |
| David Mandrus | 2.9240 | Applied Physics |
| Charles Melcher | 2.8927 | Nuclear & Particle Physics |
| Frank Löffler | 2.8783 | Microbiology |
| Himanshu Thapliyal | 2.8608 | Computer Hardware & Architecture |
| Zhenbo Wang | 2.8534 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| Thomas Zawodzinski | 2.8399 | Energy |
| Eric Lass | 2.8331 | Materials |
| Hairong Qi | 2.7954 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Yilu Liu | 2.7828 | Energy |
| Chien-fei Chen | 2.7586 | Energy |
| Uday Vaidya | 2.7351 | Materials |
| Stephen Paddison | 2.7340 | Chemical Physics |
| Daniel Costinett | 2.7196 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Christopher Cherry | 2.7174 | Logistics & Transportation |
| Lynne Parker | 2.6977 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Anming Hu | 2.6923 | General Physics |
| Brett Compton | 2.6398 | Materials |
| Katharine Page | 2.6233 | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
| Jian Liu | 2.6145 | Networking & Telecommunications |
| Chad Duty | 2.6039 | Materials |
| David Greene | 2.6035 | Energy |
| Kevin Tomsovic | 2.6004 | Energy |
| Jayne Wu | 2.5851 | Analytical Chemistry |
| Kurt Sickafus* | 2.5842 | Applied Physics |
| Feng Zhang | 2.5606 | Energy |
| Kai Sun | 2.5529 | Energy |
| Nicholas Brown | 2.5486 | Energy |
| Prashant Singh | 2.5236 | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| Hua Bai | 2.5183 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| James Plank | 2.5022 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Weidong Li | 2.4944 | Materials |
| Phillip Myer | 2.4786 | Dairy & Animal Science |
| Khalid Hattar | 2.4777 | Materials |
| Benjamin Blalock | 2.4352 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Aly Fathy | 2.4269 | Networking & Telecommunications |
| Hahn Choo | 2.4217 | Materials |
| Ruixing Zhang | 2.3829 | Applied Physics |
| Garrett Rose | 2.3827 | Computer Hardware & Architecture |
| Paul Palies | 2.3650 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| Mohamed Mahfouz | 2.3075 | Networking & Telecommunications |
| George Bosilca | 2.2809 | Distributed Computing |
| John Schmisseur | 2.2749 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| Lawrence Townsend* | 2.2701 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| He Yin | 2.2184 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Wei Qiu | 2.1820 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Piotr Luszczek | 2.1492 | Distributed Computing |
*Emeritus or no longer with UT‘
Career Impact
TCE faculty recognized as top scientists for career-long impact in order of individual ranking included:
| Person | Score | Field (As listed by Stanford) |
|---|---|---|
| William Weber | 4.3512 | Applied Physics |
| Steven Zinkle | 4.3084 | Energy |
| Takeshi Egami | 4.2475 | Applied Physics |
| Arthur Ragauskas | 4.2181 | Biotechnology |
| T. G. Nieh* | 4.1601 | Materials |
| Bimal Bose | 4.1530 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Jack Dongarra | 4.1242 | Distributed Computing |
| Peter Liaw* | 4.0863 | Materials |
| Sergei Kalinin | 4.0734 | Applied Physics |
| Rigoberto Advincula | 3.9675 | Polymers |
| Suresh Babu | 3.9661 | Materials |
| Zhanhu Guo | 3.9636 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| Matthew Mench | 3.8871 | Energy |
| Fei Wang | 3.8808 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Lynne Parker | 3.8776 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Fangxing Li | 3.8110 | Energy |
| Stephen Paddison | 3.8075 | Chemical Physics |
| Audris Mockus | 3.8050 | Software Engineering |
| Tony Schmitz | 3.7458 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Brian D. Wirth | 3.7319 | Energy |
| Yanwen Zhang | 3.7052 | Applied Physics |
| Terry Hazen | 3.7045 | Microbiology |
| Charles Melcher | 3.6858 | Nuclear & Particle Physics |
| James Plank | 3.6604 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Leon Tolbert | 3.6583 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Jack Parker | 3.6134 | Environmental Engineering |
| David Mandrus | 3.5922 | Applied Physics |
| Easo George | 3.5882 | Materials |
| Thomas Zawodzinski | 3.5850 | Energy |
| Asad Khattak | 3.5599 | Logistics & Transportation |
| Kurt Sickafus* | 3.5570 | Applied Physics |
| Yanfei Gao | 3.5441 | Materials |
| Kevin L. Tomsovic | 3.5295 | Energy |
| Philip Rack | 3.4464 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| David Greene | 3.3952 | Energy |
| Bamin Khomami | 3.3824 | Polymers |
| Uday Vaidya | 3.3736 | Materials |
| Himanshu Thapliyal | 3.3381 | Computer Hardware & Architecture |
| Frank Löffler | 3.3325 | Microbiology |
| Lawrence Townsend | 3.3107 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| Jayne Wu | 3.2658 | Analytical Chemistry |
| John Landes* | 3.2629 | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| Michael Berry | 3.2454 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Hairong Qi | 3.2437 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Brian Edwards | 3.2310 | Polymers |
| Kenneth Kihm | 3.2259 | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| Yilu Liu | 3.2233 | Energy |
| Bin Hu | 3.2203 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| Gary Flandro* | 3.2098 | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| Christian Parigger* | 3.1805 | Optics |
| Caleb Rucker | 3.1538 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Michael Danquah | 3.1469 | Biotechnology |
| Daniel Costinett | 3.1297 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Aly Fathy | 3.1297 | Networking & Telecommunications |
| Mohamed Mahfouz | 3.1069 | Networking & Telecommunications |
| Ma Langston | 3.1046 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Jindong Tan | 3.0977 | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| Garrett Rose | 3.0932 | Computer Hardware & Architecture |
| Dayakar Penumadu | 3.0766 | Materials |
| Cong Trinh | 3.0724 | Biotechnology |
| Eric Lass | 3.0703 | Materials |
| Michael Vose | 3.0632 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Carl Lundin* | 3.0613 | Materials |
| Mongi Abidi | 3.0215 | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| Kai Sun | 2.9837 | Energy |
| Benjamin Blalock | 2.9807 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| Yves Robert* | 2.9389 | Distributed Computing |
| Hua Kevin Bai | 2.8821 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| James Hung | 2.7377 | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
*Emeritus or no longer with UT
Contact
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