UCLA Fielding faculty listed among world’s most influential researchers
Four UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty members are among the "world’s most influential researchers."
In a testament to UCLA research that transforms lives across the globe, 39 faculty members - including four with UCLA Fielding - have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences. The distinction reserved for only one out of every thousand researchers.
The annual Highly Cited Researchers list, compiled by international data and analytics firm Clarivate, identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past 11 years; those selected have authored multiple studies that rank in the top 1% of scholarly citations worldwide. The list provides a snapshot of top research talent, using quantitative metrics and qualitative analysis to highlight scholars whose work has had a genuine, global influence on their fields.
“We celebrate the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 for advancing innovation and inspiring the global research community to tackle society’s greatest challenges with creativity and ingenuity,” said Bar Veinstein, president of academia and government at Clarivate.
Overall, 6,868 researchers from more than 1,300 institutions in 60 countries and regions were recognized this year, representing 0.1% of the global research community. As was the case last year, the U.S. had the most scholars on the list, followed by China, the U.K., Germany and Australia.
Current UCLA Fielding researchers named to the 2025 list, along with their primary field or fields of study, include:
- Sander Greenland, epidemiology and statistics
- Ron Hays, health policy and management
- Beate Ritz, environmental health sciences and epidemiology
- Marc Suchard, biostatistics and human genetics
Other UCLA researchers named to the 2025 list, along with their primary field or fields of study, are:
- Nasim Annabi, chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Aditya Bardia, medicine
- Timothy Cloughesy, neurology
- Giovanni Coppola, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
- Michelle Craske, psychology
- Xiangfeng Duan, inorganic chemistry*
- Bruce Dunn, materials science and engineering
- David Eisenberg, biochemistry
- Richard Finn, medicine
- Edward Garon, medicine
- Daniel Geschwind, neurology*
- Jonathan Goldman, medicine
- Alex Hall, atmospheric and oceanic sciences
- Steve Horvath, biostatistics and human genetics
- Kendall Houk, organic chemistry
- Elaine Hsiao, integrative biology
- Yu Huang, materials science and engineering*
- Richard Kaner, materials science and engineering
- Riki Kawaguchi, neuroscience
- Baljit Khakh, physiology and neurobiology
- Yuzhang Li, chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Aldons Lusis, medicine
- Aydogan Ozcan, electrical engineering
- Mason Porter, mathematics
- Antoni Ribas, medicine
- Yair Rivenson, electrical and computer engineering
- Lawren Sack, ecology and evolutionary biology
- Jeffrey Saver, neurology
- Dennis Slamon, hematology and oncology
- Michael Sofroniew, neurobiology
- Michael Storper, urban planning
- Christopher Tang, business administration
- Tommaso Treu, physics and astronomy
- Zev Wainberg, medicine
- Kang Wang, electrical and computer engineering and materials science
* Researchers recognized in multiple fields.
