The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 143 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines.
Of those 140 UK scientists and scholars, 22 are UK Pigman College of Engineering faculty.
The data reported in this article is a snapshot of recent productivity. It includes only citations received during the calendar year 2022, hence it may not reflect career publications. Please see “About Elsevier’s list” below for more information.
Citations are one measure of the impact of academic research. For researchers, publishing work in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is a key step in sharing research findings and new discoveries.
“Being cited is one sign that your work matters to the research community,” said Lisa Cassis, Ph.D., UK vice president for research. “We acknowledge that citation metrics can have issues including gender bias and underrepresentation of community-focused and non-STEM research — the same issues with which the research community at-large is grappling. The University of Kentucky is dedicated to an inclusive culture of research across all spectrums of inquiry, and we value the contributions of all faculty, staff and student researchers. UK’s world-recognized research is impacting the community and producing innovations that make Kentucky and the world healthier, wealthier and wiser. We congratulate these outstanding individuals for this citation recognition.”
The database, updated October 2023 and available through the Elsevier Data Repository, was compiled by Stanford faculty member John P.A. Ioannidis. Database inclusion means the individual met a variety of metrics that place them among the top 2% of researchers based on citations for 2022.
The following Pigman College of Engineering researchers (in alphabetical order) appeared on Elsevier’s top 2% of world’s most-cited researchers list:
• Rudolph Buchheit, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Zhi Chen, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering• Hailong Chen, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Yang-Tse Cheng, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Jiang Biao He, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering• J. Zach Hilt, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Rick Honaker, Ph.D., Mining Engineering• Dan Ionel, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering• I.S. Jawahir, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Xu Jin, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Haluk Karaca, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Xin Liang, Ph.D., Computer Science• Yuan Liao, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering• Alexandre Martin, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Daniel Pack, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Dusan Sekulic, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Qing Shao, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Mark Suckow, D.V.M., Biomedical Engineering• Peng Wang, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Fuqian Yang, Ph.D., Chemical and Materials Engineering• Guoqiang Yu, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering• YuMing Zhang, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
