The Web of Science ranking of the world’s most highly-cited scientists was released this morning, telling us who makes up the top 1 percent of the world’s scientists. These are the authors of influential papers that other scientists point to when making their arguments.

Once again, Duke is impressive: 30 of the citation laureates are Duke scholars or had a Duke affiliation when the landmark works were created over the last decade.

Four names on the list belong to Duke’s international powerhouse of developmental psychology, the Genes, Environment, Health and Behavior Lab, led by Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi. Their stalwart co-authors Honalee Harrington and Renate Houts ended up in the cross-disciplinary list, somehow.

Dan Scolnic of Physics returns as our lone entry in Space Science, which just makes Duke sound cooler all around, don’t you think?

This is a big deal for the named faculty and an impressive line on their CVs. But the selection process weeds out “hyper-authorship, excessive self-citation and anomalous citation patterns,” so don’t even think about gaming it.

Fifty-nine nations are represented by the 6,636 individual researchers on this year’s list. About half of the citation champions are in specific fields and half in ‘cross-field’ — where interdisciplinary Duke typically dominates. The U.S. is still the most-cited nation with 36 percent of the world’s share, but shrinking slightly. Mainland China continues to rise, claiming second place with 20 percent of the cohort, up 2.5 percent from just last year. Then, in order, the UK, Germany and Australia round out the top five.

Tiny Singapore, home of the Duke NUS Graduate Medical School, is the tenth-most-cited with 1.6 percent of the global share.

In fact, six Duke NUS faculty made this year’s list: Antonio Bertoletti, Wan Ni Chia, Derek Hausenloy and Jenny Guek-Hong Low for cross-field; Carolyn S. P. Lam for clinical medicine, and the world famous “Bat Man,” Lin-Fa Wang, for microbiology.

Okay, you scrolled this far, let’s go!

Biology and Biochemistry

Charles A. Gersbach

Julie Ann Sosa (now UCSF)

Clinical Medicine

Christopher Bull Granger

Adrian F. Hernandez

Renato D. Lopes

Cross-Field

Xinnian Dong

Honalee Harrington

Renate Houts

Po-Chun Hsu (adjunct, now U. Chicago)

Tony Jun Huang

Ru-Rong Ji

Robert J. Lefkowitz

Jason Locasale  (Affiliate)

David B. Mitzi

Christopher B. Newgard

Candice L. Odgers (adjunct, now UC Davis)

Michael J. Pencina

Pratiksha I. Thakore (now with Genentech)

Mark R. Wiesner

Environment and Ecology

Robert B. Jackson (adjunct, now Stanford U.)

Microbiology

Barton F. Haynes

Neuroscience and Behavior

Quinn T. Ostrom

Pharmacology and Toxicology

Evan D. Kharasch

Physics

David R. Smith

Plant and Animal Science

Sheng-Yang He

Psychiatry and Psychology

Avshalom Caspi

William E. Copeland

Jane E. Costello

Terrie E. Moffitt

Space Science

Dan Scolnic