More than 60 University of North Texas researchers were included in the ranking of the world's most cited researchers and those who are among the top 2% of more than six million scientists worldwide within their specialty areas throughout their careers. At UNT, 64 researchers were among the top 2% for a single year - 2021. The ranking method is based on standardized citation metrics developed by a group of scientists led by John P.A. Ioannidis, a statistician at Stanford University.

Among those at UNT ranked in the top 2% were more than twenty College of Science faculty, represented across the biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, and physics departments.

The impact of scientific research is often measured by citations - how many times a researchers' work is cited by another scientific paper. Ioannidis' study resulted in the creation of the ranking by analyzing data collected from 1996 to 2021, covering more than six million scientists in 22 major fields and 176 subfields.

The following College of Science faculty were included on the annual list for 2021 and/or the career-long most cited list:

Biological Sciences

Annual Index: Thomas Beitinger (retired), Warren Burggren, Kent Chapman, Fang Chen, Thomas Cundari, Richard Dixon (emeritus), Jyoti Shah, Vladimir Shulaev

Career Index: Thomas Beitinger, Warren Burggren, Kent Chapman, Thomas Cundari, Richard Dixon (emeritus), Guenter Gross (emeritus), Jyoti Shah, Vladimir Shulaev

Chemistry

Annual Index: Bill Acree, Paul Bagus, Weston Borden (emeritus), Francis D'Souza, Shengqian Ma, Alan Marchand (emeritus), Mohammad Omary, Yingxiang Ye

Career Index: Bill Acree, Paul Bagus, Weston Borden (emeritus), Francis D'Souza, Shengqian Ma, Mohammad Omary

Mathematics

Career Index: Mariusz Urbański

Physics

Annual Index: Jingbiao Cui, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Career Index: Jingbiao Cui, Zhibing Hu, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Yuri Rostovtsev, Bruce J. West, (former UNT professor)

View all the UNT researchers included in the list at UNT Research and Innovation