The list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2019 includes 54 of Duke's most prominent and influential researchers, some of whom made the list more than once.
That number puts Duke into a 4-way tie for 8th among the world's universities for its number of highly-cited scientists.
Citation rate – the number of times a given author's work appears in the citations of other papers – is a proxy for the influence and importance of a scientist's work. This annual metric has been compiled for decades by a company now called ISI-Web of Science, a Clarivate Analytics company.
The listing is intended to recognize "researchers with broad community influence," the organization says.
The data are taken from 21 broad research fields. The fields are defined by sets of journals and, 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.
ISI-Web of Science also weighted the occurrence of self-citation in their analyses, though this practice varies by discipline.
Globally, Duke is in a four-way tie for eighth place with MIT, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the University of California San Diego.
Harvard University is once again the champion of citations, with 203 researchers on the list. They are followed by Stanford (103), Chinese Academy of Sciences (101), Max Planck Society (73), Broad Institute (60), UC-Berkeley (58), and Washington University in St. Louis (55).
The annual ranking has seen a surge in Chinese authors, with 636 researchers on the highly cited list this year, up from 482 in 2018. The United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands saw slight declines.
Web of Science also named 57 "Citation Laureates," from this year's data, those the analyses indicate are of "Nobel class." Duke has no names on this list for 2019, though highly cited Bob Lefkowitz already has his medal.
This year's most highly cited Duke authors are:
Alam, S. Munir - Cross-Field
Anderson, Deverick J. - Social Sciences, general
Angold, Adrian - Psychiatry/Psychology
Ariely, Dan - Economics & Business
Benfey, Philip N. - Plant & Animal Science
Bonsignori, Mattia - Microbiology
Califf, Robert M. - Clinical Medicine
Caspi, Avshalom - Psychiatry/Psychology (Also of: Kings Coll London,UK)
Costello, E. Jane - Psychiatry/Psychology
Cullen, Bryan R. - Microbiology
Cummer, Steven A. - Physics
Curtis, Lesley H. - Clinical Medicine
Dawson, Geraldine - Cross-Field
Dong, Xinnian - Cross-Field
Douglas, Pamela S. - Clinical Medicine
Ferrari, Guido - Cross-Field
Finkelstein, Eric A. - Cross-Field (Also of: Duke NUS Grad Med School, Singapore)
Granger, Christopher B. - Clinical Medicine
Harvey, Campbell R. - Economics & Business (Also of: Natl Bureau of Economic Research)
Haynes, Barton F. - Immunology and Microbiology
Ji, Ru-Rong - Cross-Field
Keefe, Richard S. E. - Psychiatry/Psychology
Lefkowitz, Robert J. - Pharmacology & Toxicology
Leong, Kam W. - Cross-Field
Liao, Hua-Xin - Microbiology
Mitzi, David B. - Materials Science
Moffitt, Terrie E. - Psychiatry/Psychology (Also of: Kings Coll London, UK)
Montefiori, David C. - Microbiology
Newby, L. Kristin - Clinical Medicine
O'Connor, Christopher M. - Clinical Medicine
Ohman, E. Magnus - Clinical Medicine
Oren, Ram - Cross-Field
Patel, Manesh R. - Clinical Medicine
Pencina, Michael J. - Clinical Medicine and Social Sciences, general
Peterson, Eric D. - Clinical Medicine
Pitman, Nigel - Environment/Ecology
Porporato, Amilcare - Cross-Field
Shindell, Drew T. - Geosciences
Smith, David R. - Physics
Terborgh, John - Environment/Ecology
Tomaras, Georgia D. - Microbiology
Wiesner, Mark R. - Environment/Ecology
Wiley, Benjamin J. - Cross-Field
Zhao, Xuanhe - Cross-Field
