UCLA College scholars among most highly cited researchers for 2021

 

Editor’s note: Congratulations to the UCLA College scholars included in this year’s Clarivate Analytics list of the most highly cited researchers in the sciences and social sciences!

By Stuart Wolpert

The world’s most influential researchers include 43 UCLA scholars.

In its latest annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers — the scholars whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers in 21 fields in the sciences and social sciences. The researchers rank in the top 1% in their fields, based on their widely cited studies. The 2021 list is produced using research citations from January 2010 to December 2020.

Current UCLA faculty members and researchers who were named to the list, and their primary UCLA research field or fields, are:

• Carrie Bearden, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
• Matthew Budoff, medicine
• Jun Chen, bioengineering
• Bartosz Chmielowski, medicine
• Giovanni Coppola, neuroscience and human behavior
• Michelle Craske, psychology
• Xiangfeng Duan, inorganic chemistry
• Bruce Dunn, materials science and engineering
• David Eisenberg, chemistry
• Richard Finn, medicine
• Gregg Fonarow, medicine
• Edward Garon, medicine
• Daniel Geschwind, neurology
• Michael Green, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
• Sander Greenland, epidemiology
• Ron Hays, medicine
• Steve Horvath, biostatistics
• Yu Huang, materials science and engineering
• Michael Jerrett, environmental health sciences
• Richard Kaner, inorganic chemistry
• Baljit Khakh, physiology
• Nathan Kraft, ecology and evolutionary biology
• Dennis Lettenmaier, geography
• Yuzhang Li, chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Roger Lo, medicine
• Jake Lusis, medicine
• Bengt Muthen, education
• Stanley Osher, mathematics
• Aydogan Ozcan, electrical engineering
• Matteo Pellegrini, molecular, cell and developmental biology
• Mason Porter, mathematics
• Steven Reise, psychology
• Antoni Ribas, medicine
• Lawren Sack, ecology and evolutionary biology
• Jeffrey Saver, neurology
• Michael Sawaya, molecular biology
• Michael Sofroniew, neurobiology
• Marc Suchard, biostatistics
• Kang Wang, electrical engineering
• Edward Wright, astronomy
• Yang Yang, materials science and engineering
• Wotao Yin, mathematics
• Jeffrey Zink, inorganic chemistry

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