Texas Materials Institute is proud to announce that four of our faculty have been named Highly Cited Researchers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group.
Arumugam Manthiram, John B. Goodenough, Guihua Yu, and Allan MacDonald were among the 20 named from UT Austin.
The highly anticipated list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.
The methodology that determines the who’s who of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from the Institute for Scientific Information at the Web of Science Group.
The data are taken from 21 broad research fields within Essential Science Indicators, a component of InCites. The fields are defined by sets of journals and exceptionally, in the case of multidisciplinary journals such as Nature and Science, by a paper-by-paper assignment to a field based on an analysis of the cited references in the papers. This percentile-based selection method removes the citation advantage of older papers relative to recently published ones, since papers are weighed against others in the same annual cohort.
David Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information said: “Recognition and support of these exceptional researchers represents an important activity for a nation or an institution’s plans for efficient and accelerated advancement. The Highly Cited Researchers list contributes to the identification of that small fraction of the researcher population that contributes disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge. These researchers create gains for society, innovation and knowledge that make the world healthier, richer, more sustainable and more secure.”
This year’s list continues to recognize researchers whose citation records position them in the very highest strata of influence and impact as it includes 23 Nobel laureates, including our very own John B. Goodenough.
TMI would like to congratulate these faculty members on their achievement. If you’d like to know more about their research areas, please visit their individual research pages: Arumugam Manthiram , John B. Goodenough, Guihua Yu, and Allan MacDonald.
If you would like to see the complete list of researchers, please see the link here.
