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More than 70 current and former Old Dominion University faculty members are among the most-cited researchers in the world, according to a Stanford University study.

The study, updated annually since 2019, narrows data on millions of scientists worldwide to identify the top 2% cited in author databases.

For researchers, frequent citation is an indicator of the significance of their findings. As an institution classified as Research 1 by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, ODU occupies the highest level of research universities in the United States. To be considered R1, universities must meet benchmarks across 10 indicators, including research doctorates awarded, total research expenditures, the aggregate level of research activity and the number of research staff.

“Peer-reviewed publications are an enduring measure of a researcher’s ability to advance knowledge, as well as a university’s collective influence on what we know and how we know it. We are proud to have this tangible evidence of the worldwide impact of ODU’s faculty across multiple academic disciplines,” said Morris Foster, vice president of research at Old Dominion University. Foster is among the most-cited over his career for research in medical anthropology.

Researcher John Ioannidis of Stanford University viewed the number of career citations of scholarly articles from the first year of publication to the end of 2021 to assess career impact. The list was compiled based on a Sept. 1, 2022, snapshot of Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

The updated list includes two categories: career-long citation impact and current-year impact. Many faculty members are included on both lists.

The first is based on the number of times a scholar’s work is cited throughout their career. Sixty ODU faculty were named in such diverse fields as marketing, aerospace engineering, cybersecurity and ocean and earth sciences.

For the current-year impact, 50 ODU faculty representing disciplines such as psychology, civil engineering, exercise science and chemistry were included.

Scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.

More than 50 ODU faculty were included in the study published in 2021. Asterisks denote current faculty.

Most-Cited Career Citations

John A. Adam*, Mathematics & Statistics

Ian Balitsky*, Physics

Oktay Baysal*, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Craig A. Bayse*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Stephen Beebe*, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics Research

Peter. F. Bernath*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

David J. Burdige*, Ocean & Earth Sciences

Thomas F. Cash, Psychology

George. T. Csanady, (deceased) Oceanography

Gregory A. Cutter*, Ocean & Earth Sciences

Daniel M. Dauer, Biological Sciences

Abdelmageed Elmustafa*, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Tal Ezer*, Modeling & Simulation Ocean & Earth Sciences

Morris W. Foster*, Vice President for Research

Ann E. Gargett, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Thomas B. Gatski (deceased), Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Alex Gurevich*, Physics

H. Rodger Harvey*, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Patrick G. Hatcher*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Wu He, Information Technology & Decision Sciences

Eileen E. Hofman*, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Fang Q. Hu*, Mathematics & Statistics

Soad R. Ibrahim*, Computer Science

Khan M. Iftekharuddin*, Dean’s Office, Engineering & Technology

Cynthia M. Jones, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

William Q. Judge*, Management and Entrepreneurship

Sharon Judge, Communication Disorders & Special Education

Charles B. Keating*, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering

John M. Klinck*, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Michael G. Kong*, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics

Sandeep Kumar*, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Murat Kuzlu*, Engineering Technology

Mounir Laroussi*, Electrical & Computer Engineering

James Weifu Lee*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ling Li*, Information Technology & Decision Sciences

Li-Shi Luo*, Mathematics & Statistics

Jingdong Mao*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Sylvain Marsillac*, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Chuh Mei, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Kenneth Mopper*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

ManWo Ng*, Information Technology & Decision Sciences

Nora Noffke*, Ocean & Earth Sciences

Ahmed K. Noor, Computational Modeling and Simulation Engineering

Stephan Olariu*, Computer Science

Shizhi Qian*, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Anatoly Radyushkin*, Physics

Mark W. Scerbo*, Psychology

Rocco Schiavilla*, Physics

Karl H. Schoenbach, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Anusorn Singhapakdi, Marketing

Daniel E. Sonenshine, Biological Sciences

David P. Swain*, Human Movement Sciences

Wayne K. Talley, Economics

P. Thomas Vernier*, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics

J. W. Wilson, Physics

George T.F. Wong, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Willy Wriggers*, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Hongyi Wu, School of Cybersecurity

Chunsheng Xin*, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Li Da Xu*, Information Technology

Most-Cited Current-Year Impact

Ian Balitsky*, Physics

Craig A. Bayse*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Stephen Beebe*, Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics Research

Peter F. Bernath*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Doris U. Bolliger, STEM Education

Raúl A. Briceño*, Physics

David J. Burdige*, Ocean & Earth Sciences

Kent E. Carpenter*, Biological Sciences

Thomas F. Cash, Psychology

Sheri R. Colberg, Human Movement Sciences Exercise Science

Helen Crompton*, Teaching & Learning

Gregory A. Cutter*, Ocean & Earth Sciences

Tal Ezer*, Modeling & Simulation Ocean & Earth Sciences

Catherine R. Glenn*, Psychology

Alex Gurevich*, Physics

Justin A. Haegele*, Human Movement Sciences

Patrick G. Hatcher*, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Wu He, Information Technology & Decision Sciences

Fang Q. Hu*, Mathematics & Statistics

Khan M. Iftekharuddin*, Engineering & Technology

William Q. Judge, Management and Entrepreneurship