November 19, 2019
UCLA Newsroom
The 2019 list of the world’s most influential scientific researchers includes six Fielding School faculty members:
In its annual list, the Web of Science Group, which is a Clarivate Analytics company, names the most highly cited researchers — those whose work was most often referenced by other scientific research papers published from 2008 through 2018 in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences.
“The Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group contributes to the identification of that small fraction of the researcher population that contributes disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge and gaining for society innovations that make the world healthier, richer, more sustainable, and more secure,” according to Web of Science Group.
UCLA researchers on the list have affiliations that include the UCLA College, the David Geffen School of Medicine, the Samueli School of Engineering, the Fielding School of Public Health, the California NanoSystems Institute, the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
Beyond the Fielding School, current UCLA faculty members and researchers who were named to the list are:
Matthew Budoff, cardiology
Duilio Cascio, molecular biology
Jun Chen, bioengineering
Bartosz Chmielowski, hematology and oncology
Michelle Craske, psychology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
Xiangfeng Duan, chemistry
Bruce Dunn, materials science and engineering
Gregg Fonarow, cardiology
Daniel Geschwind, genetics, neurology and psychiatry
Michael Green, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences
Zhen Gu, bioengineering
Kendall Houk, chemistry and biochemistry
Yu Huang, materials science and engineering
Steve Jacobsen, moclecular, cell and developmental biology and genetics
Richard Kaner, chemistry and materials science
Ali Khademhosseini, bioengineering
Nathan Kraft, ecology and evolutionary biology
Peter Langfelder, biostatistics
Dennis Lettenmaier, geography, and civil and environmental engineering
Zhaoyang Lin, materials science and chemistry
Roger Lo, dermatology and oncology
Aldons Lusis, medicine
Bengt Muthen, health
Ni Ni, physics
Stanley Osher, mathematics, and chemical and biomolecular engineering
Matteo Pellegrini, computational biology
Dinesh Rao, hematopathology and hematology
Steven Reise, psychology
Antoni Ribas, hematology and oncology
Lawren Sack, ecology and evolutionary biology
Jeffrey Saver, neurology
Michael Sawaya, molecular biology
Ali Sayed, electrical and computer engineering
Michael Sofroniew, neurobiology
Terence Tao, mathematics
Kang Wang, electrical and computer engineering
Edward L. Wright, physics and astronomy
Tian Xia, nanobiology
Yang Yang, materials science and engineering
Wotao Yin, mathematics
Jeffrey Zink, chemistry
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Ron D. Hays
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Health Policy and Management
Ron Andersen
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Arturo Vargas Bustamante
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Samuel Sessions
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Corrina Moucheraud
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Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
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James Macinko
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Annette Regan
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Lillian Gelberg
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Mark Litwin
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Vickie Mays
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Michelle S. Keller
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Dvora Joseph Davey
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Gerald Kominski
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Vonthanak Saphonn
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Leah Vriesman
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Kelika Konda
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Moira Inkelas
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Yvonne Flores
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Roberta Malmgren
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William J. McCarthy
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Nathan D. Wong
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Emily Beeler
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Anne Coleman
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Roch A. Nianogo
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Elizabeth (Becky) Yano
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Shira Shafir
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Beth Glenn
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Ninez Ponce
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Olivia Jung
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Teresa Ellen Seeman
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Dallas Swendeman
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Jonathan Fielding
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Jose J. Escarce
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Roger Detels
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Carol Mangione
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Mark A. Malek
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Srikanth Kadiyala
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Naomi Greene
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Peter Katona
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Arlene Fink
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Lisa V. Smith
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Jean Balgrosky
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Ondine S. von Ehrenstein
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Ralph R. Frerichs
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Michael Ong
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Thomas Priselac
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Anthony Hunter Schiff
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Annette Maxwell
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Karin B. Michels
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Robert J. Kim-Farley
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Brian Bradbury
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Thomas Rice
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Nadereh Pourat
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Alan Tomines
Health Policy and Management
Jody Heymann
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Akihiro Nishi
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Jennifer Wortham
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Paul Dluzniewski
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Risha Gidwani
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Burt Cowgill
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Isomi Miake-Lye
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Aria Fallah
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Sandra Aronberg
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Paul Chung
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Barbara Berman
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Joann G. Elmore
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Paul Fu, Jr.
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Daniel Eisenberg
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David Hayes-Bautista
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Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
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Kristen Choi
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Timothy Brewer
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Warren Scott Comulada
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Emmeline Chuang
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Naomi Zewde
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William Comanor
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Sung-Jae Lee
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Dylan Roby
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Jack Needleman
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Thomas D. Gordon
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Pamina Gorbach
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Michael Galper
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Kenneth Wells
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Steven Teutsch
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Lara Cushing
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Irwin Suffet
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Rachael Jones
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Kevin Njabo
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Catherine M. Crespi
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Shane Que Hee
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Jared Diamond
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Sudipto Banerjee
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Kirsten Schwarz
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Timothy Malloy
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Nicole Green
Environmental Health Sciences
Jian Li
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Ron Brookmeyer
Biostatistics
Linda Rosenstock
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Robert Schiestl
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Michele Guindani
Biostatistics
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Niklas Krause
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Biostatistics
Andrew Holbrook
Biostatistics
Miriam Marlier
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Richard Ambrose
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Wendie Robbins
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Epidemiology
Abdelmonem A. Afifi
Biostatistics
