This year’s listing of the world’s most-cited researchers is out from Clarivate Analytics, and Duke has 34 names on the list of 3,400 researchers from 21 fields of science and social science.
Having your publication cited in a paper written by other scientists is a sign that your work is significant and advances the field. The highly-cited list includes the top 1 percent of scientists cited by others in the years 2005 to 2015.
“Citations by other scientists are an acknowledgement that the work our faculty has published is significant to their fields,” said Vice Provost for Research Lawrence Carin. “In research, we often talk about ‘standing on the shoulders of giants,’ as a way to explain how one person’s work builds on another’s. For Duke to have so many of our people in the top 1 percent indicates that they are leading their fields and their work is indeed something upon which others can build.”
In addition to the Durham researchers, Duke-NUS, our medical school in Singapore, claims another 13 highly cited scientists.
The highly-cited scientists on the Durham campus are:
Barton Haynes
CLINICAL MEDICINE
Robert Califf
Christopher Granger
Kristin Newby
Christopher O’Connor
Erik Magnus Ohman
Manesh Patel
Michael Pencina
Eric Peterson
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Dan Ariely
John Graham
Campbell Harvey
Drew Shindell
ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
John Terborgh
Mark Wiesner
GEOSCIENCES
Drew Shindell
IMMUNOLOGY
Barton Haynes
MATHEMATICS
James Berger
Georgia Tomaras
MICROBIOLOGY
Bryan Cullen
Barton Haynes
David Montefiori
Georgia Tomaras
PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY
Robert Lefkowitz
PHYSICS
David R. Smith
PLANT AND ANIMAL SCIENCE
Philip Benfey
Terrie Moffitt
PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY
Angold, Adrian
Caspi, Avshalom
Copeland, William E
Costello, E J
Dawson, Geraldine
Keefe, Richard SE
McEvoy, Joseph P
Moffitt, Terrie E
SOCIAL SCIENCES (GENERAL)
Deverick Anderson
Kelly Brownell
Michael Pencina