Twenty-one UNC School of Medicine and 17 other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have been named in Clarivate’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers™, scientific pioneers from around the world whose names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.
Thirty-eight of UNC Chapel Hill’s researchers have been recognized in Clarivate’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers™. The list includes 21 UNC School of Medicine and 17 UNC Chapel Hill researchers who have demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names were drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index. The United States continues to dominate the list as the home to the highest number of Highly Cited Researchers, with 2,650 authors, representing 41.5% of the researchers on the list. More than 6,000 researchers from more than 60 countries and regions were recognized this year.
Clarivate™ is a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Since 2001, the Highly Cited Researchers™ list has identified global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence reflected through their publication of multiple papers. In determining the “who’s who” of influential researchers, the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists. It also uses the tallies to identify the countries and research institutions where these scientific elite are based.
Here are the names of the UNC School of Medicine researchers who have been featured in the 2020 list.
Xi-Ping Huang, Department of Pharmacology
Sidney Smith, Department of Medicine
Myron Cohen, Department of Medicine
John Buse, Department of Medicine
Aravinda de Silva, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Gianpietro Dotti, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Helen Lazear, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
John McCorvy, Department of Pharmacology (*research completed at UNC)
Piotr Mieczkowski, Department of Genetics
Dinggang Shen, Department of Radiology
Martin A. Styner, Department of Psychiatry
Daniel Wacker, Department of Pharmacology (*research completed at UNC)
Jenny Ting, Department of Genetics
Katherine Hoadley, Department of Genetics
Patrick Sullivan, Department of Psychiatry
Bryan L. Roth, Department of Pharmacology
Joel Parker, Bioinformatics, Lineberger
Wesley Burks, Department of Pediatrics
Patrick Sullivan, Department of Psychiatry
Diana Perkins, Department of Psychiatry
Charles Perou, Department of Genetics
Here are the other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers on the list:
Barry Popkin, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Jinsong Huang, UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Jeffrey Edwards, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Leaf Huang, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Corbin Jones, UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Seth Noar, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Kurt Ribisl, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Jason Surratt, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Wei You, UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Hans Paerl, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Jinsong Huang, UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Jeffery Dangl, UND College of Arts & Sciences
David Penn, UND College of Arts & Sciences
Stephen R. Cole, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Kelly Evenson, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Byron Powell, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Noel Brewer, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Brewer, Cohen, Dotti, Hoadley, Huang, Mieczkowski, Noar, Parker,Perou, Popkin, Ribisl, Roth, Shen, Sullivan, and Ting are members of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.