For faculty and researchers, having your work cited by others brings validation of your work on both on its own right and as a building block of your field, not to mention a bit of prestige as well.
Stanford University creates annual- and career-long lists of the world’s most cited researchers by compiling data to come up with a composite score that takes into account the wide variety of citations, such as whether the person was sole author or one of many, for example. They then list faculty by that score, with the result being a ranking of the top 2 percent of cited researchers from around the world.
Of those, 75 researchers who currently work in the Tickle College of Engineering—or whose cited work took place while they were—made the list, led by UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Materials Steve Zinkle, with a score of 3.8126.
“These rankings highlight both 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 ”
Other college faculty and researchers to make the list were:
| Person | Score | Field (As listed by Stanford) |
|---|---|---|
| Steven Zinkle | 3.8126 | Energy |
| Arthur Ragauskas | 3.7597 | Biotechnology |
| Zhanhu Guo | 3.6434 | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology |
| William Weber | 3.6019 | Applied Physics |
| Suresh Babu | 3.4766 | Materials |
| Easo George | 3.4675 | Materials |
| Fangxing Li | 3.3623 | Energy |
| Bimal Bose* | 3.3443 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Takeshi Egami | 3.3334 | Applied Physics |
| Peter Liaw | 3.2968 | Materials |
| Jack Dongarra* | 3.275 | Distributed Computing |
| Baoshan Huang | 3.2024 | Logistics and Transportation |
| Matthew Mench | 3.155 | Energy |
| Andrew Steiner | 3.1353 | Nuclear and Particle Physics |
| T.G. Nieh* | 3.1171 | Materials |
| Fei Wang | 3.1017 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Leon Tolbert | 3.0888 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Brian Wirth | 3.045 | Energy |
| Tony Schmitz | 2.9871 | Industrial Engineering and Automation |
| Yanfei Gao | 2.9696 | Materials |
| Audris Mockus | 2.9558 | Software Engineering |
| Asad Khattak | 2.9529 | Logistics and Transportation |
| Terry Hazen | 2.9519 | Microbiology |
| Yanwen Zhang | 2.9427 | Applied Physics |
| Lynne Parker | 2.8667 | Industrial Engineering and Automation |
| David Mandrus | 2.8638 | Applied Physics |
| Thomas Zawodzinski | 2.8468 | Energy |
| Husheng Li | 2.8414 | Networking and Telecommunications |
| Uday Vaidya | 2.8399 | Materials |
| Caleb Rucker | 2.8162 | Industrial Engineering and Automation |
| Joshua Fu | 2.8003 | Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Charles Melcher | 2.7931 | Nuclear and Particle Physics |
| Frank Löffler | 2.7366 | Microbiology |
| Himanshu Thapliyal | 2.7203 | Computer Hardware and Architecture |
| Stephen Paddison | 2.7175 | Chemical Physics |
| Daniel Costinett | 2.7175 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Nima Farzadnia* | 2.7174 | Building and Construction |
| Hairong Qi | 2.7049 | Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing |
| Zhenbo Wang | 2.6996 | Aerospace and Aeronautics |
| David Greene | 2.6975 | Energy |
| Anming Hu | 2.6841 | General Physics |
| Bin Zhao | 2.667 | Polymers |
| Yilu Liu | 2.666 | Energy |
| Kurt Sickafus* | 2.6552 | Applied Physics |
| Brett Compton | 2.6126 | Materials |
| Mingjian Cui* | 2.6057 | Energy |
| Eric Lass | 2.6055 | Materials |
| Christopher Cherry | 2.5999 | Logistics and Transportation |
| Khalid Alshibli | 2.5977 | Geological and Geomatics Engineering |
| Kevin Tomsovic | 2.5715 | Energy |
| Chad Duty | 2.548 | Materials |
| Benjamin Blalock | 2.5395 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Katherine Page | 2.5164 | Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry |
| Garrett Rose | 2.4984 | Computer Hardware and Architecture |
| Douglas Aaron | 2.4824 | Energy |
| Kai Sun | 2.4759 | Energy |
| Abhijeet Borole | 2.472 | Biotechnology |
| Michael Best | 2.4685 | Organic Chemistry |
| James Coder* | 2.4564 | Aerospace and Aeronautics |
| Jian Liu | 2.4499 | Networking and Telecommunications |
| Hua Bai | 2.4375 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Dan Wilson | 2.4179 | Fluids and Plasmas |
| Nicholas Brown | 2.3646 | Energy |
| Mohamed Mahfouz | 2.3568 | Networking and Telecommunications |
| Dayakar Penumadu | 2.353 | Materials |
| Maik Lang | 2.3171 | Applied Physics |
| Aly Fathy | 2.2895 | Networking and Telecommunications |
| Paul Palies | 2.2266 | Aerospace and Aeronautics |
| Lawrence Townsend* | 2.2106 | Aerospace and Aeronautics |
| Stanimire Tomov | 2.2023 | Distributed Computing |
| Piotr Luszczek | 2.1781 | Distributed Computing |
| Jayne Wu | 2.1376 | Analytical Chemistry |
| George Bosilca | 2.0732 | Distributed Computing |
| He Yin | 2.0596 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
*Emeritus or no longer with UT
The University of Tennessee as a whole had 172 on the 2021-22 list, topped by Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science Daniel Simberloff, from the College of Arts and Sciences, who came in at 845 with a score of 4.123.