UMass Boston

Over three dozen UMass Boston current and past researchers appear on the 2022 Stanford-Elsevier list of the world’s most-cited scholars. Being included on this list is a powerful testament to the reach and impact of the research taking place at the university.

To create the publicly available database of top-cited scientists, a group of scientists at Stanford University developed a ranking method based on standardized citation metrics that considers total author number and author position. Modern academic research is highly collaborative, though authors in the first and last positions typically indicate the researchers who led or supervised a published research project, respectively. Originally published in the PLOS Biology Journal in 2020, Elsevier released the most recent update of the ranking in November 2022.

Biology Professor Liam Revell said, “The large number of UMass Boston faculty on this list is a strong reflection of our identity as the leading public research university in metropolitan Boston, and should be a source of pride for our institution.”

Current UMass Boston researchers in the 2022 overall top 100,000 globally most highly-cited scientists:

Biology
Liam J. Revell, PhD (7,298 citations)

Business
David L. Levy, DBA (3,733 citations)

Chemistry
Wei Zhang, PhD (5,993 citations)

Engineering
Richard A. Soref, PhD (15,768 citations)

Nursing
Jacqueline Fawcett, RN, PhD, ScD (hon); FAAN, ANEF (2,168 citations)

Physics
Christopher A. Fuchs, PhD (7,176 citations)
Maxim Olshanii, PhD (5,950 citations)

Psychology
Alice Carter, PhD (12,488 citations)
Heidi M. Levitt, PhD (2,933 citations)
Paul G. Nestor, PhD (8,189 citations)
Jean E. Rhodes, PhD (6,207 citations)

Though not in the top 100,000, additional researchers currently at UMass Boston who appear in the 2022 top 2% most-cited ranking by sub-field include the following:

Anthropology
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, PhD (1347 citations)

Archaeology
Stephen W. Silliman, PhD (924 citations)

Computer Science
Gabriel Ghinita (3,309 citations)
Xiaohui Liang, PhD (5,479 citations)

Environment
Michael F. Tlusty, PhD (1,724 citations)

Gerontology
Edward Alan Miller, PhD, MPA (2,656 citations)

Physics
Robin Côté, PhD (5,454 citations)
Greg Sun, PhD (4,957 citations)

Sociology
Mark R. Warren, PhD (1001 citations)