CORRECTION: Two Missouri S&T faculty were omitted from the original news release due to misidentification in the database: Dr. Fatih Dogan, professor of ceramic engineering, and Dr. Ulrich D. Jentschura, professor of physics. Their information is now included in the news release below.

Sixty-six current and former faculty of Missouri S&T are among the top researchers in their field as measured by their career research records, and 15 other current or former Missouri S&T researchers were among the best in their fields in 2020, according to a recent analysis by Stanford University.

The Stanford study analyzes the number of research publications, citations and other measures of research productivity including career-long and single-year impact. The study classifies individuals into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields that include science, engineering, business and medicine. Career-long data are updated through the end of 2020, and the selection is based on the top 100,000 researchers as determined by a composite citation metric known as a “c-score” (with and without self-citations) or by their percentile rank of 2% or above.

The study, titled “August 2021 data-update for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators’,” was published online Oct. 19 and is based on a “snapshot” of career-long research productivity as of Aug. 1. The analysis yielded approximately 186,000 scientists who are ranked in the top 2% of their fields. Missouri S&T researchers from 16 academic disciplines are included in the analysis.

“The breadth, depth, influence and career-long body of work of our faculty is impressive, diverse and reflective of our stature as a major research university,” says Dr. Kamal Khayat, interim vice chancellor for research and innovation at Missouri S&T. “The list includes many research-active tenured faculty who hold named or endowed professorships, as well as faculty who have retired, moved on or unfortunately passed away, but whose life-long work continues to influence current research endeavors.

“Even more exciting,” Khayat adds, “is the number of S&T faculty on this list who are early in their careers and are already making significant and highly cited contributions to their fields.”

The number of S&T-affiliated faculty who are in the top 2% of their disciplines for career-long impact increased by 25% over 2020, when 51 S&T-affiliated faculty made the list.

Those in the top 2% with S&T affiliation include more than a dozen Curators’ Distinguished Professors, two members of the National Academy of Inventors, one member of the National Academy of Engineering, and current or former directors of five Missouri S&T research centers and one research consortium.

S&T researchers included in the study are as follows, by discipline. Those recognized for their career-long impact in their fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Many of those individuals also were recognized for their single-year research productivity for 2020.

Aerospace engineering

• Dr. S.N. Balakrishnan, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of aerospace engineering*
• Dr. Walter Eversman, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of aerospace engineering*
• Dr. Serhat Hosder, professor*
• Dr. David W. Riggins, Chancellor’s Professor and Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of aerospace engineering*

Business and information technology

• Dr. Fiona Nah, former professor*
• Dr. Keng Saiu, former professor and chair*

Ceramic engineering

• Dr. Harlan U. Anderson, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus*
• Dr. Richard Brow, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and interim deputy provost for academic excellence*
• Dr. Delbert E. Day, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors*
• Dr. Fatih Dogan, professor*
• Dr. William G. Fahrenholtz, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and director of the Materials Research Center*
• Dr. Gregory E. Hilmas, Curators’ Distinguished Professor*
• Dr. Mohamad N. “Len” Rahaman, professor (retired)*
• Dr. Chandra Ray, former professor*
• Dr. Robert W. Schwartz, former professor*
• Dr. Shi C. Zhang, former research professor*

Chemistry

• Dr. Amitava Choudhury, associate professor*
• Dr. Nuran Ercal, Richard K. Vitek/Foundation for Chemical Research Endowed Chair
• Dr. Stig E. Friberg, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus*
• Dr. Daniel Hier, adjunct professor*
• Dr. Nicholas Leventis, former professor*
• Dr. Gary J. Long, professor emeritus*
• Dr. Yinfa Ma, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus*
• Dr. Vadym N. Mochalin, associate professor*
• Dr. Jay A. Switzer, Chancellor’s Professor, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus and former Castleman/Foundation for Chemical Research Professor of Discovery*

Chemical engineering

• Dr. Muthanna Al-Dahhan, Curators’ Distinguished Professor*
• Dr. Xinhua Liang, Linda and Bipin Doshi Associate Professor
• Dr. Athanasios Liapis, professor (retired)*
• Dr. Fateme Rezaei, associate professor
• Dr. Ali Rownaghi, former assistant research professor
• Dr. Hu Yang, Linda and Bipin Doshi Professor, chair of the Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and director of the Center for Biomedical Research*

Civil engineering

• Dr. Genda Chen, Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure*
• Dr. Mohamed A. ElGawady, Benavides Faculty Scholar and Professor and interim director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies
• Dr. Dimitri Feys, associate professor
• Dr. Kamal Khayat, Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor, former director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies, and interim vice chancellor for research and innovation*
• Dr. Hongyan Ma, associate professor*
• Dr. William P. Schonberg, professor*
• Dr. Lesley Sneed, former Stirrat Faculty Scholar and professor
• Dr. Wei Wen Yu, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus*

Computer engineering

• Dr. Jun Fan, former Cynthia Tang Professor*
• Dr. Donald C. Wunsch, Mary K. Finley Professor*

Computer science

• Dr. Sajal K. Das, Daniel St. Clair Chair*
• Dr. Sanjay Madria, Curators’ Distinguished Professor*
• Dr. George Markowsky, professor*
• Dr. Colin Potts, provost, who joined Missouri S&T in June from Georgia Institute of Technology*

Electrical engineering

• Dr. Bruce Archambeault, adjunct professor*
• Dr. Mariesa Crow, former Fred W. Finley Distinguished Professor*
• Dr. Mehdi Ferdowsi, professor*
• Dr. Jie Huang, Roy E. Wilkens Endowed Associate Professor
• Dr. Todd H. Hubing, former professor*
• Dr. Jonathan Kimball, professor and director of the Center for Research on Energy and the Environment*
• Dr. Albert Ruehli, adjunct professor*
• Dr. Jagannathan Sarangapani, Rutledge-Emerson Distinguished Professor and a member of the National Academy of Inventors*
• Dr. Pourya Shamsi, Woodard Associate Professor of Excellence
• Dr. Chen Zhu, former research assistant professor

Geology and geophysics

• Dr. David J. Wronkiewicz, associate professor*

Mathematics

• Dr. Martin Bohner, Curators’ Distinguished Professor*

Mechanical engineering

• Dr. Victor Birman, professor emeritus*
• Dr. Douglas Bristow, professor and director of the Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies*
• Dr. K. Chandrashekhara, Curators’ Distinguished Professor*
• Dr. Jie Gao, former associate professor
• Dr. Leslie R. Koval, professor emeritus*
• Dr. Umit Koylu, professor*
• Dr. Ming C. Leu, Keith and Pat Bailey Professor and former director of the Intelligent Systems Center*
• Dr. Frank Liou, Michael and Joyce Bytnar Professor and interim director of the Intelligent Systems Center*
• Dr. Xiaodong Yang, associate professor

Metallurgical engineering

• Dr. J.B. Clark, former professor*
• Dr. Michael Moats, professor and interim chair of materials science and engineering*
• Dr. Mark E. Schlesinger, professor*

Mining engineering

• Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei, Union Pacific-Rocky Mountain Energy Professor and interim chair*

Petroleum engineering

• Dr. Baojun Bai, Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Professor*
• Dr. Sherif Fakher, a Ph.D. graduate
• Dr. Abdulmohsin Imqam, assistant professor

Physics

• Dr. Marco Cavaglia, professor*
• Dr. Robert DuBois, professor emeritus*
• Dr. Yew San Hor, associate professor
• Dr. Ulrich D. Jentschura, professor*
• Dr. Don Madison, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus*
• Dr. Julia E. Medvedeva, professor*
• Dr. Ronald E. Olson, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus*
• Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and chair*

About Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) is a STEM-focused research university of over 7,200 students. Part of the four-campus University of Missouri System and located in Rolla, Missouri, Missouri S&T offers 101 different degree programs in 40 areas of study and is among the nation’s top 10 universities for return on investment, according to Business Insider. S&T also is home to the No. 1 nationally ranked Human Powered Vehicle Design Team and to the Kummer Institute, made possible by a $300 million gift from Fred and June Kummer. For more information about Missouri S&T, visit www.mst.edu.