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.