November 27, 2018
UCLA Newsroom
The world’s most influential scientific researchers in 2018 include 40 UCLA scholars.
In its annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers — those whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers for the preceding decade in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences. (The 2018 list is based on citations between 2006 and 2016.)
The researchers rank in the top 1 percent in their fields in producing widely cited studies, indicating that their work “has been repeatedly judged by their peers to be of notable significance and utility,” according to Clarivate.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers include Ronald Hays , Steve Horvath , Michael Jerrett , Andre Nel , Beate Ritz and Marc Suchard .
All current UCLA faculty members and researchers who were named to the list, noted with their primary UCLA research field or fields, are:
Matthew Budoff, cardiology
Rowan Chlebowski, oncology and hematology
Xiangfeng Duan, chemistry and biochemistry
Gregg Fonarow, cardiology
Nelson Freimer, human genetics and psychiatry
Daniel Geschwind, genetics, neurology and psychiatry
Michael Green, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
Ronald Hays, public health
David Heber, clinical nutrition
Steve Horvath, human genetics and biostatistics
Kendall Houk, organic chemistry
Yu Huang, materials science
Stephen Hubbell, ecology and evolutionary biology
Michael Jerrett, public health
Richard Kaner, chemistry and materials science
Peter Kareiva, environment and sustainability
Ali Khademhosseini, bioengineering and radiology
Nathan Kraft, ecology and evolutionary biology
Dennis Lettenmaier, geography, and civil and environmental engineering
Huan Meng, nanomedicine
Sabeeha Merchant, chemistry and biochemistry
André Nel, nanotoxicology and nanomedicine
Stanley Nelson, human genetics
Keith Nuechterlein, psychiatry
Stanley Osher, mathematics and engineering
Matteo Pellegrini, computational biology
Steven Paul Reise, psychology
Antoni Ribas, hematology and oncology
Beate Ritz, public health
Jerome Rotter, pediatrics and human genetics
Lawren Sack, ecology and evolutionary biology
Jeffrey Saver, neurology
Ali Sayed, electrical and computer engineering
Michael Sofroniew, neurobiology
Marc Suchard, biomathematics and human genetics
Terence Tao, mathematics
Edward L. Wright, physics and astronomy
Tian Xia, nanotoxicology
Yang Yang, materials science
Jeffrey Zink, chemistry
The original version of this story was written by Stuart Wolpert.
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