16 UCI faculty members listed among Highly Cited Researchers
Designation amounts to ‘who’s who’ of influential scientists
Sixteen UCI faculty members are part of the Highly Cited Researchers list for 2022. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are used to identify individuals from across the globe who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields of research. The preliminary list of Highly Cited Researchers is drawn from the papers that rank in the top 1 percent by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index over the past decade. The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws on the data and analyses performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific Information.
The UCI scientists listed are:
- Amir AghaKouchak, professor of civil and environmental engineering
- Steven Allison, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
- James Bullock, dean of the School of Physical Sciences and professor of physics & astronomy
- Steven Davis, professor of Earth system science
- Greg Duncan, Distinguished Professor of education
- Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, professor of medicine
- Susan O’Brien, professor of hematology/oncology and associate director for clinical science at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, clinical professor of hematology/oncology
- Xiaoqing Pan, professor of materials science and engineering
- James Randerson, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth system science
- Eric Rignot, Distinguished Professor of Earth system science
- Vojislav Stamenkovic, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Julian Thayer, Distinguished Professor of psychological science
- Kathleen Treseder, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
- Nosratola Vaziri, professor of medicine
- Huolin Xin, professor of physics & astronomy
This year’s 7,225 Highly Cited Researcher designations have been issued to 6,938 scholars. The number of awards exceeds the number of unique individuals because some researchers were recognized in more than one field.
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