Top 100 Materials Scientists

Special Report on High-Impact Materials Scientists

A bulk single grain sample of superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O being levitated by a permanent magnet. From an interview with David Cardwell featured in the Special Topic of High-Temperature Superconductors (Aug. 2009). On March 2, 2011, Thomson Reuters released data identifying the world’s top 100 materials scientists who achieved the highest citation impact scores for their papers (articles and reviews) published since January 2000.

Impact is a weighted measure of influence that seeks to reveal consistently superior performance. To ensure that a high score could not be achieved by a few highly cited papers, a threshold of 25 papers was used in the analysis. The average citation impact in materials science for the period was 6.93, so all the researchers listed above achieved more than six times that mark.

Top 100 Materials Scientists
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Top 100 Materials Scientists, 2000-10, Ranked by Citation Impact (among those with 25 or more papers)
Rank	Scientist	Papers	Citations	Impact
1 [C 10]	Peidong YANG University of California Berkeley	36	13,900	386.11
2 [C 55]	Yadong YIN University of California Riverside	32	6,387	199.59
3	Michael H. HUANG National Tsing Hua University	34	5,439	159.97
4 [C 35]	Younan XIA Washington University St. Louis	83	11,936	143.81
5 [C 61]	Yugang SUN Argonne National Laboratory	37	5,231	141.38
6	Yiying WU Ohio State University	74	9,590	129.59
7	Jan C. HUMMELEN University of Groningen	38	4,643	122.18
8 [C 47]	Alan J. HEEGER University of California Santa Barbara	49	5,788	118.12
9	Oomman K. VARGHESE, Pennsylvania State University	28	3,021	107.89
10 [C 32]	Catherine J. MURPHY University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign	31	3,313	106.87
11	Michael D. MCGEHEE Stanford University	26	2,651	101.96
12	Christoph J. BRABEC University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	43	4,242	98.65
13	Stephen R. FORREST University of Michigan	25	2,417	96.68
14	N. Serdar SARICIFTCI Johannes Kepler University of Linz	74	6,444	87.08
15	Herbert GLEITER Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	29	2,440	84.14
16	Rodney S. RUOFF University of Texas Austin	25	2,060	82.40
17	Frank CARUSO University of Melbourne	74	5,589	75.53
18	Philippe DUBOIS University of Mons	36	2,628	73.00
19 [C 37]	Taeghwan HYEON Seoul National University	37	2,685	72.57
20 [C 41]	Xiangfeng DUAN University of California Los Angeles	39	2,825	72.44
21	Rachel A. CARUSO University of Melbourne	27	1,948	72.15
22	Galen D. STUCKY University of California Santa Barbara	72	5,095	70.76
23	Igor V. ALEXANDROV Ufa State Aviation Technical University	38	2,555	67.24
24 [C 70]	Nicholas A. KOTOV University of Michigan	36	2,388	66.33
25	Craig A. GRIMES Pennsylvania State University	55	3,626	65.93
26	Ullrich SCHERF University of Wuppertal	64	4,099	64.05
27	Andreas STEIN University of Minnesota	47	2,985	63.51
28	Subra SURESH Massachusetts Institute of Technology	64	4,024	62.88
29 [C 53]	Shaik M. ZAKEERUDDIN, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	27	1,670	61.85
30	Ray H. BAUGHMAN University of Texas Dallas	25	1,503	60.12
31	Paul W.M. BLOM University of Groningen	37	2,176	58.81
32	Jenny NELSON Imperial College London	31	1,821	58.74
33	David J. MOONEY Harvard University	43	2,512	58.42
34	Tsu-Wei CHOU University of Delaware	33	1,915	58.03
35	Iain MCCULLOCH Imperial College London	30	1,725	57.50
36	Andreas GREINER University of Marburg	30	1,716	57.20
37	Ferdi SCHÜTH Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	60	3,395	56.58
38	Henning SIRRINGHAUS University of Cambridge	39	2,173	55.72
39	Samson A. JENEKHE University of Washington	27	1,490	55.19
40	C. SURYANARAYANA University of Central Florida	33	1,801	54.58
41	James R. DURRANT Imperial College London	31	1,669	53.84
42	Guillermo C. BAZAN University of California Santa Barbara	55	2,960	53.82
43	Meixiang WAN Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Beijing	29	1,557	53.69
44	Pierre-Antoine ALBOUY University of Paris-Sud 11	28	1,503	53.68
45	Dietmar W. HUTMACHER Queensland University of Technology	39	2,092	53.64
46	Anders HAGFELDT Uppsala University	26	1,385	53.27
47	Dago M. DE LEEUW University of Groningen and Philips Research Laboratories	32	1,704	53.25
48 [C 42]	Michael GRÄTZEL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	52	2,763	53.13
49	Zhifeng REN Boston College	37	1,963	53.05
50 [C 12]	Mark E. THOMPSON, University of Southern California	28	1,482	52.93
51	Andrey L. ROGACH City University of Hong Kong	34	1,781	52.38
52	Rinat K. ISLAMGALIEV Ufa State Aviation Technical University	37	1,926	52.05
53	Mats R. ANDERSSON Chalmers University of Technology	28	1,449	51.75
54	Mietek JARONIEC Kent State University	54	2,771	51.31
55	Fujio IZUMI National Institute for Materials Science, Japan	25	1,277	51.08
56	Simon R. PHILLPOT University of Florida	29	1,481	51.07
57	Neil COOMBS University of Toronto	25	1,269	50.76
58	Terry C. LOWE Manhattan Scientifics, Inc.	28	1,416	50.57
59	Wolfgang J. PARAK University of Marburg	27	1,365	50.56
60	Marie-Paule PILENI University Pierre & Marie Curie	32	1,612	50.38
61	Jonathan N. COLEMAN Trinity College Dublin	30	1,507	50.23
62	Zhenan BAO Stanford University	38	1,907	50.18
63	Dieter NEHER University of Potsdam	30	1,499	49.97
64	Dieter WOLF Idaho National Laboratory	26	1,285	49.42
65	Kornelius NIELSCH University of Hamburg	27	1,322	48.96
66	Yet-Ming CHIANG Massachusetts Institute of Technology	26	1,254	48.23
67	Joachim H WENDORFF University of Marburg	30	1,430	47.67
68	Antonios G. MIKOS Rice University	95	4,507	47.44
69	John R. REYNOLDS University of Florida	45	2,131	47.36
70	David GROSSO University Pierre & Marie Curie	55	2,548	46.33
71 [C 65]	Richard H. FRIEND, University of Cambridge	60	2,775	46.25
72	Paula T. HAMMOND Massachusetts Institute of Technology	42	1,927	45.88
73	Richard W. SIEGEL Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	31	1,419	45.77
74	Fred WUDL University of California Santa Barbara	25	1,141	45.64
75 [C 63]	Craig J. HAWKER, University of California Santa Barbara	34	1,548	45.53
76	Peter X. MA University of Michigan	30	1,352	45.07
77	Karine ALSELME Upper Alsace University	25	1,122	44.88
78	David L. KAPLAN Tufts University	77	3,408	44.26
79	Donal D.C. BRADLEY Imperial College London	57	2,522	44.25
80	Kam W. LEONG Duke University	45	1,991	44.24
81	Yeshayahu LIFSHITZ Technion -- Israeli Institute of Technology	25	1,097	43.88
82	John A. ROGERS University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign	61	2,671	43.79
83 [C 74]	Michael GIERSIG, Free University of Berlin	36	1,570	43.61
84	Jean-Luc BRÉDAS Georgia Institute of Technology	50	2,177	43.54
85	Thomas E. MALLOUK Pennsylvania State University	35	1,523	43.51
86	Caroline A. ROSS Massachusetts Institute of Technology	27	1,174	43.48
87	John W. HUTCHINSON Harvard University	42	1,824	43.43
88	David BELJONNE University of Mons	25	1,085	43.40
89 [C 44]	Horst WELLER University of Hamburg	25	1,082	43.28
90	Frederik C. KREBS Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy	48	2,077	43.27
91	Linda S. SCHADLER Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	42	1,817	43.26
92	René A.J. JANSSEN Eindhoven University of Technology	61	2,633	43.16
93	Young-Woo HEO Kyungpook National University	30	1,294	43.13
94	Alan H. WINDLE University of Cambridge	36	1,552	43.11
95	Andrew I. COOPER University of Liverpool	30	1,284	42.80
96	Markus NIEDERBERGER Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	36	1,537	42.69
97	Antonio FACCHETTI Northwestern University and Polyera Corporation	37	1,579	42.68
98	Nicola PINNA University of Aveiro and Seoul National University	25	1,057	42.28
99	Xiang Min MENG Chinese Academy of Sciences, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Beijing	31	1,309	42.23
100	William D. NIX Stanford University	49	2,065	42.14
Note: Sixteen of those listed also ranked in the top 100 by citation impact in chemistry, among those who published 50 or more papers in that field during the last decade. Their ranks in chemistry [C] are noted beneath their ranks in materials science. SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators^SM from Thomson Reuters, January 1, 2000 – October 31, 2010.

In recognition of the 2011 being named the International Year of Chemistry, this publication previously featured a list of the top 100 chemists over the last decade according to citation impact (citations per paper).

In that analysis, a set of discipline-specific journals defined the field of chemistry and, as a supplement, selected papers in multidisciplinary journals such as Science and Nature were also added. But it must be admitted that chemistry is difficult to define precisely.

To supplement the previous treatment, the current table presents data on high impact researchers in materials science, a realm that overlaps with chemistry as well as with physics, engineering, and other areas. Once again, this field was defined by a set of discipline-specific journals and papers dealing with materials science from multidisciplinary titles. Influential biochemists will be the focus on another feature in the future in order to round out this review of chemistry.

The table lists the 100 researchers in materials science who achieved the highest citation impact scores for their papers (articles and reviews) published since January 2000. Impact is a weighted measure of influence that seeks to reveal consistently superior performance. To ensure that a high score could not be achieved by a few highly cited papers, a threshold of 25 papers was used in the analysis. The average citation impact in materials science for the period was 6.93, so all the researchers listed above achieved more than six times that mark.

Since approximately a half million materials scientists were recorded in the journal publications indexed by Clarivate during the last decade, these 100 represent the top fiftieth of one percent. Sixteen of those listed also ranked in the top 100 by citation impact in chemistry, among those who published 50 or more papers in that field during the last decade. Their ranks in chemistry [C] are noted beneath their ranks in materials science.

As with the Chemistry 100 table, this list includes many researchers who state that a main or significant focus of their research is nanotechnology – by our count 78 of the 100.

The national affiliations of the authors are: 48 for the United States; 11 for Germany; eight for the United Kingdom; four each for France and the Netherlands; three for Australia, China, South Korea, and Switzerland; two for Belgium, Russia, and Sweden; and one apiece for Austria, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Portugal, and Taiwan (total is 101 due to Pinna’s appointments both in Portugal and in South Korea).

The institutions appearing three or more times are: University of California Santa Barbara (5), Imperial College London (4), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4), Pennsylvania State University (3), Stanford University (3), University of Cambridge (3), University of Groningen (3), University of Marburg (3), and University of Michigan (3).

For more information, view Essential Science Indicators^SM from Clarivate.

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