By Aaron Goldweber
Sixteen CALS researchers are among the 50 from Cornell University (excluding Weill Cornell Medical College) that are named as “highly cited” by ISIHighlyCited.com.
“I was proud to see how many of the CALS faculty had made the list,” says William E. Fry, CALS senior associate dean. “Sixteen certainly means that we have more than our fair share from across the campus and compared to other institutions.”
Though not all are citation classics — the “gold record” of academic publishing — getting a rating of “highly cited” indicates that a researcher’s publications are in the top 250 most cited in one or more subject areas in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences between 1981 and 1999.
“The number of times a publication has been cited is a strong indication of the amount of scientific impact it has,” explains Fry, who is himself a recipient of the accolade. “I was absolutely delighted when they sent me a note a few months ago saying that I’d been identified.”
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), a bibliographic organization that is part of Thompson Scientific and Thompson Publishing, maintains ISIHighlyCited.com. According to the website, it’s a “tool to identify individuals, departments, and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.”
The website is free and allows any user to search by name or browse by author, research category, country, or institutional affiliation.
Highly cited researchers from CALS- Martin Alexander (Crop and Soil Sciences)
- David Barbano (Food Science)
- Dale Bauman (Animal Science)
- William Fry (Plant Pathology-Ithaca)
- Robert Howarth (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- Chang Yong Lee (Food Science and Technology)
- Gregory Martin (Plant Pathology-Ithaca)
- June Nasrallah (Plant Biology)
- Mikhail Nasrallah (Plant Biology)
- Jean-Yves Parlange (Biological and Environmental Engineering)
- James Robertson (USDA/Animal Science)
- Wendell Roelofs (Entomology-Geneva)
- James Russell (ARS-USDA/Microbiology)
- Roger Spanswick (Biological and Environmental Engineering)
- Steven Tanksley (Plant Breeding and Genetics)
- Peter Van Soest (Animal Science)