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51 UC San Diego Researchers among Most Highly Cited in World in 2021 Clarivate Listing

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UC San Diego ranked 9th globally for most highly cited researchers

Fifty-one faculty members and researchers at the University of California San Diego have been cited as among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the 2021 Clarivate listing of Most Highly Cited Researchers in the World.

Clarivate is a company providing analytics of scientific and academic research. Among its services is publishing the annual Highly Cited Researchers list. Clarivate’s 2021 list identifies some 6,600 researchers from across the globe who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Those on the 2021 list come from more than 70 countries and territories and represent more than 1300 research institutions around the world. Of those 1300 institutions, UC San Diego ranked 9th in number of highly cited researchers.

UC San Diego has researchers listed in 15 fields of study, including a “cross-field” category for researchers who are widely cited across multiple fields. The categories of study most-cited among the UC San Diego researchers on the 2021 list are cross-field (23), followed by molecular biology and genetics (6), and (with 4 each): biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, and microbiology.

“UC San Diego’s 9th place ranking, out of 1,300 research institutions globally, shines a bright and well-deserved light on the groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary research taking place across our university,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “Regularly cited by colleagues around the globe, the work of our respected faculty experts is advancing human knowledge and addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”

Davin D. Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said: “This list identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers at the University of California San Diego who are having a significant impact on the research community, as evidenced by the rate at which their work is being cited by their peers.”

UC San Diego also stands out as home to the only researcher, out of 6,602 identified in the 2021 list, to be honored in four separate area of study. For the second year in a row, Professor Rob Knight, Director for the Center of Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, received recognition in the fields of biology and biochemistry, environment and ecology, microbiology, and molecular biology and genetics.

“Having over 50 highly cited­­ researchers from diverse fields of research on the 2021 Clarivate list is the mark of a great research university,” said UC San Diego Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra A. Brown. “We’re excited to see our faculty and researchers get the recognition they deserve for their groundbreaking and impactful research.”

The 51 UC San Diego faculty members and researchers named by Clarivate, and the fields of study in which they were cited, are listed here in alphabetical order by last names:

  1. Gregory Aarons, social sciences
  2. Ludmil Alexandrov, molecular biology and genetics
  3. Amnon Amir, cross-field
  4. David Brenner, cross-Field
  5. Kristin Cadenhead, cross-field
  6. Don Cleveland, neuroscience and behavior
  7. Seth Cohen, chemistry
  8. Justine Debelius, cross-field
  9. Pieter Dorrestein, cross-field
  10. Mark Ellisman, cross-field
  11. Mark Estelle, plant and animal science
  12. Michael Fogler, cross-field
  13. Anthony Gamst, cross-field
  14. Jack Gilbert, microbiology
  15. Christopher Glass, molecular biology and genetics
  16. Uri Gneezy, economics and business
  17. Antonio Gonzalez, microbiology
  18. Kun-Liang Guan, molecular biology and genetics
  19. Trey Ideker, cross-field
  20. Michael Karin, molecular biology and genetics
  21. Dusan Keres, space science
  22. Jacqueline Kerr, social sciences
  23. Rob Knight, (listed in 4 fields) biology and biochemistry / environment and ecology / microbiology / molecular biology and genetics
  24. Razelle Kurzrock, clinical medicine
  25. Lisa Levin, cross-field
  26. Irene Litvan, neuroscience and behavior
  27. Rohit Loomba, clinical medicine
  28. Prashant Mali, biology and biochemistry
  29. Eliezer Masliah, cross-field
  30. Daniel McDonald, (listed in 2 fields) biology and biochemistry / microbiology
  31. Shirley Meng, cross-field
  32. Jerrold Olefsky, cross-field
  33. Shyue Ping Ong, cross-field
  34. Bernhard Palsson, biology and biochemistry
  35. Allan Pei, cross-Field
  36. Bing Ren, molecular biology and genetics
  37. William Sandborn, (listed in 2 fields) pharmacology and toxicology / clinical medicine
  38. Jon Sanders, cross-field
  39. Bernd Schnabl, cross-field
  40. Julian Schroeder, plant and animal science
  41. Claude Sirlin, clinical medicine
  42. Murray Stein, cross-field
  43. Ming Tsuang, psychiatry and psychology
  44. Joseph Wang, cross-field
  45. Joseph Witztum, cross-field
  46. Shang-Ping Xie, geosciences
  47. Sheng Xu, cross-Field
  48. Zhenjiang Zech Xu, cross-field
  49. Gene Yeo, cross-field
  50. Liangfang Zhang, pharmacology and toxicology
  51. Yunde Zhao, plant and animal science

The methodology that determines Clarivate’s annual list of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate. You can read more about Clarivate’s methodology on its website.

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