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UCLA: 43 UCLA Scholars Among Most Highly Cited Researchers For 2021
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Stuart Wolpert
November 16, 2021
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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.
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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
This press release was produced by UCLA. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
