Twenty-nine 天美影视传媒 faculty members are among a list of the year鈥檚 most highly cited researchers in the natural and social sciences.
The “” for 2016 was Nov. 16 by Clarivate Analytics 鈥� formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. The list recognizes approximately 3,000 researchers whose peer-reviewed papers and manuscripts have been cited frequently in academic literature.
鈥淭his is an exciting acknowledgment of the excellence of our faculty and the significant impact of groundbreaking research being carried out at the UW,鈥� said Mary Lidstrom, vice provost for research. 鈥淭his honor also speaks to the quality of our postdocs and graduate students engaged in this research.鈥�
The list of researchers as a list of highly cited papers. Clarivate Analytics and Thomson Reuters searched for the top 1 percent of papers most frequently cited between 2004 and 2014 from among 22 broad disciplines in the natural and social sciences. This list included 128,887 papers whose authors are the highly cited researchers for 2016.
Thomson Reuters has used analyses of citation frequency and other metrics to assemble lists of the world鈥檚 most “” scientific minds.
鈥淲e congratulate the scientists from UW Medicine and the UW at large on this recognition of their research achievements and the significance of their findings. The 天美影视传媒 continues to be an exceptional research institution, and these individuals exemplify that excellence,” said Sheila Lukehart, associate dean for research and graduate education at the UW School of Medicine.
Here is the full list of the 29 UW faculty members and their general research fields as classified by Thomson Reuters:
, for聽space science: Department of Astronomy
, for economics and business: Department of Management and Organization
, for聽biology and聽biochemistry: Department of Biochemistry
, for聽materials science: Department of Materials Science & Engineering
, for pharmacology and toxicology: Department of Pharmacology
, for physics: Department of Physics
, for clinical medicine: Department of Biostatistics
, for聽molecular biology and聽genetics: Department of Genome Sciences
, for聽microbiology: Department of Immunology
, for聽pharmacology and聽toxicology: Department of Bioengineering
, for聽space science: Department of Astronomy
, for聽materials science: Department of Materials Science & Engineering
, for聽materials science: Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry
, for聽geoscience: Applied Physics Laboratory
, for psychiatry and psychology: Department of Psychology
, for聽neuroscience and聽behavior: Department of Pathology
, for聽clinical medicine: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health
, for聽clinical medicine:聽Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health
, for聽clinical medicine: Department of Medicine
, for聽computer science: Department of Genome Sciences, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
, for聽immunology: Department of Pediatrics
, for general social sciences: Department of Biostatistics
, for聽molecular biology and genetics: Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology
, for聽general social sciences: Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
, for both biology and biochemistry as well as molecular biology and genetics: Department of Genome Sciences
, for molecular biology and genetics: Department of Genome Sciences, Department of Medicine
, for immunology: Department of Comparative Medicine
, for聽biology and聽biochemistry: Department of Genome Sciences
, for pharmacology and聽toxicology: Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Oukka has a joint appointment with the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, while Prentice is also a faculty member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In addition, Clarivate Analytics recognized one affiliate UW faculty member, the Benaroya Research Institute’s , for immunology.
Clarivate Analytics as an independent company earlier in 2016 when Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia acquired the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business and its brands.