We are recognizing faculty for being among the top in their field based on citations of their work. Whether you believe citations and associated H-index and other derived factors are good, bad or indifferent, these metrics are widely used including in an international ranking of colleges of agriculture, by references as they evaluate candidates for various awards, and in forming opinions about the reputation of our research enterprise and college.
Faculty by rank with the biggest changes in citations and H-index over a recent one year period are identified in the section immediately below. The last section lists faculty identified—through a comprehensive analysis of citations and derived metrics —as being in the top 2% of researchers globally in their field. This data comes from a from a 2021 study by a group of Stanford authors. The faculty associated with the Purdue University College of Agriculture at the time of are identified in that list.
We appreciate the impact, as indicated by citations, those recognized below are having within their research communities.
These faculty had the largest change in citations and H factors by rank in the most recent year for which we captured data.
CITATION INCREASE BY RANK
| FULL | ASSOCIATE | ASSISTANT |
|---|---|---|
| Zhixiang Chen Andy Mesecar Jeff Dukes Tom Hertel Layi Adeola Bruce Hamaker Mike Ladisch Jayson Lusk Natalia Doudareva Catherine Aime |
Davide Cammarano Damon Lisch Scott Briggs Margaret Gitau Brad Kim Jacob Ricker-Gilbert Owen Jones Mike Mickelbart Kee Hong Kim Mo Zhou |
Tim Johnson Scott McAdam Luiz Brito Jingjing Liang Jennifer Wisecaver Lavanya Reddivari Hui-Hui Wang Steve Lindemann Jacob Hosen Kranthi Varala |
H-INDEX INCREASE BY RANK
| FULL | ASSOCIATE* | ASSISTANT |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Mesecar Jeff Dukes Jayson Lusk Bryan Pijanowski Shihuan Kuang Layi Adeola Bruce Hamaker William Johnson Nate Mosier Mitch Tuinstra |
Davide Cammarano Brad Kim Jacob Ricker-Gilbert Farzad Taheripour Darrin Karcher Amanda Deering Dieudonne Baributsa Jon Schoonmaker Bruce Erickson Elizabeth Flaherty Shalamar Armstrong |
John Couture Jian Jin Scott McAdam Luiz Brito Lavanya Reddivari Brock Harpur Marisa Erasmus Betty Feng Jen-Yi Huang Diane Wang |
| LIFETIME | ONE YEAR | BOTH |
|---|---|---|
| Luiz F. Brito Grzegorz Buczkowski Yuan H.Brad Kim Shihuan Kuang Jingjing Liang Jianxin Ma Scott A.M. McAdam Ganesan Narsimhan Gerald E. Shively Mitchell R. Tuinstra Tony J. Vyn Qianlai Zhuang |
Jack L. Albright Stanley A. Barber Paul B. Brown J. Andrew Dewoody Jules Janick Linda S. Lee W. P. McCafferty Cindy H. Nakatsu S. S. Nielsen L. D. Norton D. Marshall Porterfield P. S.C. Rao Philip J. Sanmiguel Darrell G. Schulze Maria S. Sepúlveda Guofan Shao Christopher J. Staiger Robert K. Swihart Ronald F. Turco Robert G. Wagner Roy L. Whistler |
Olayiwola Adeola M. Catherine Aime Kolapo Matthew Ajuwon Jo Ann Banks James N. Bemiller Arun K. Bhunia Ray A. Bressan Stephen L. Cameron Nicholas C. Carpita Clint Chapple Zhixiang Chen S. S. Donkin Natalia Dudareva Jeffrey S. Dukes Gebisa Ejeta Bernard A. Engel Bruce R. Hamaker Thomas W. Hertel Greg J. Hunt Douglass F. Jacobs Cliff T. Johnston Owen Griffith Jones Ian Kaplan Eileen Kladivko Jozef Kokini Michael R. Ladisch Damon Lisch Jayson L. Lusk Tesfaye Mengiste Andrew D. Mesecar Cary A. Mitchell Nathan S. Mosier William M. Muir Ji Qin Ni Bryan C. Pijanowski Linda S. Prokopy K. G. Raghothama Michael E. Scharf Daniel B. Szymanski W. Andy Tao Wallace E. Tyner Jin Rong Xu |