KNOXVILLE – Five University of Tennessee researchers have made the list of the “world’s most influential scientific minds” of the last decade as determined by the most frequently cited articles.
The list was compiled by Thomson Reuters, a world leader in providing news, financial information, tax and accounting data and research tools for scientists and attorneys. Researchers were listed by publishing articles that were most frequently cited by fellow researchers.
Two researchers from UT Health Science Center (UTHSC) and three from UT Knoxville made the list of more than 3,000 highly-cited researchers. Their papers ranked among the top 1 percent of most cited for their subject field and year of publication.
The researchers are:
- Karen Johnson, professor in the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine at UTHSC. Her research focuses on women’s health, obesity, smoking cessation and preventive medicine.
- David Mandrus, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering at UT Knoxville. His research focuses on the growth, discovery and materials physics of new electronic and magnetic materials.
- Matthew Mench, Condra Chair of Excellence in Energy Storage and Conversion and professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at UT Knoxville with a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research focuses on multiphase transport in electrochemical power and conversion devices including polymer and microbial fuel cells, electrochemical sensors and flow batteries.
- David Nelson, professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry in the College of Medicine at UTHSC. His research focuses on the evolutionary genomics of the enzyme Cytochrome P450.
- Ramamoorthy Ramesh, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Nanomaterials Engineering and deputy director for science and technology at ORNL. His research focuses on development of the next generation of think film technology used in solar panels and computer memory.