The number of scientists from New Mexico State University named to an elite list continues to grow.This year, 41 NMSU researchers have been named to a list of the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide. The list is regularly updated by Stanford University and Elsevier, a publishing company that specializes in scientific, technical and medical content. Last year, 40 NMSU researchers were named to the list, and 25 researchers were named in 2022.
“The 41 NMSU researchers featured on this year’s Stanford University and Elsevier list, along with many other rising stars, will help facilitate our transition to Carnegie R1 designation next year,” said Luis Cifuentes, NMSU vice president of research, creativity and economic development.
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education issues the R1 classification to Ph.D.-granting universities with very high research activity.
Faculty members who rank in the top 2 percent for their career include Paul W. Bosland, Matthew E. Gompper, Frank A. Ward, P. J. Wierenga, Manoj Shukla, Jinfa Zhang, Paul De Ley and Brandon T. Bestelmeyer from the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; Andrew Conway, Wayne Van Voorhies, Michael Engelhardt, Jeffrey B. Arterburn, Matthias Burkardt, Gary A. Eiceman, James W. Herndon, Greg H. Mack, David Trafimow, Hermann Wollnik and Stefan Zollner from the College of Arts and Sciences; David M. Boje from the College of Business; Abdessattar Abdelkefi, Jay I. Frankel, Khandan Nirmalakhandan, Pei Xu, Zohrab A. Samani and David G. Voelz from the College of Engineering; and Jagdish Khubchandani from the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation.
Faculty members who rank in the top 2 percent for the 2023 calendar year include Bosland, Gompper, Shukla, Ward, Bestelmeyer, De Lay, Zhang, Rajan Ghimire and Djaman Koffi from the College of ACES; Burkardt, Engelhardt, Conway, Trafimow and Kathryn A. Hanley from the College of Arts and Sciences; Boje from the College of Business; Abdelkefi, Nirmalakhandan, Samani, Sevostianov, Voelz, Xu, Igor Sevostianov, Thomas A. Manz, Catherine E. Brewer and Di Shi from the College of Engineering; and Khubchandani from the College of HEST.
The list also includes retired NMSU faculty members Walter G. Whitford, Walter G. Stephan, William Weber, Thomas Schmugge, Leon Radziemski and Vincent Gutschick. Other former faculty members named to the list include Robert Jenness and Albert Rango. Sevostianov passed away in 2021. Gompper passed away earlier this year.
Stanford professor John P.A. Ioannidis directed the creation of the database, which ranks the most cited authors across all scientific disciplines. The database classifies the publications in 22 scientific fields with 174 subfields and is publicly available.
