Top 2%: Baylor profs recognized among world’s most-cited researchers

When researchers complete a study and share their work, they hope it will have impact: to help people, advance understanding, develop technologies and more.

Such impact is important — but can be hard to measure. There’s no one way to do it, but Stanford University has annually compiled a prestigious list that captures one important measure of impact: citations. And Baylor researchers do very well there.

In the most recent Stanford database, 44 current or retired Baylor faculty appear on a list that captures the top 2% of researchers cited by others. What does that mean? Citations occur when, after a faculty member publishes his or her own researchers, other researchers around the world see that work as meaningful and cite it in their own work. In short, it means another researcher saw that work as meaningful, even foundational, in building their own research project.

Let’s meet the faculty on this year’s list:

• Dr. Emmanuel Agamloh, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Dr. Paul Allison, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Point-of-Need Innovations Center
• Dr. Matt Bradshaw, Research Professor of Sociology, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
• Dr. Bryan W. Brooks, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Public Health
• Dr. Dawn Carlson (BBA ’89, MBA ’91), the H.R. Gibson Chair of Organizational Development-Management and Director of the McBride Center of International Business
• Dr. Erik W. Carter, the Luther Sweet Endowed Chair in Disabilities and Executive Director of the Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities
• Dr. Scott Cunningham, the Ben H. Williams Professor of Economics
• Dr. Meredith E. David, Associate Professor of Marketing
• Dr. Gail Dean Deyle (MPT ’77), Graduate School Professor and founder and senior faculty member for the Army-Baylor University Doctoral Fellowship in Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy
• Dr. Gary Elkins, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
• Dr. Lorraine Evangelista, Associate Professor of Nursing
• Dr. Thomas A. Fergus, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
• Dr. Karen J. Foli, Louise Herrington Endowed Chair for Mental Health Nursing and Professor of Nursing
• Dr. Paul Froese, Professor of Sociology and Director of Baylor Religion Surveys
• Dr. Fritz Gesztesy, the Ralph and Jean Storm Professor of Mathematics
• Dr. Tammy S. Gregersen, Associate Professor of English
• Dr. Craig Gundersen, the Snee Family Endowed Chair, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and Professor of Economics
• Dr. J. Brian Jordon, the Kenneth and Celia Carlile Chair in Materials Science
• Dr. Peter G. Klein, the W.W. Caruth Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation and Chair of Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation
• Dr. Ivan V. Korendovych, the James R. Schofield Endowed Chair in Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Dr. Dorothy Leidner, Professor Emeritus of Information Systems and Business Analytics
• Dr. Jeff Levin, University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health
• Dr. Christine A. Limbers, Associate Professor of Psychology and Graduate Psy.D. Program Director
• Dr. Grant P. Morgan, Associate Dean for Research, School of Education & Professor of Quantitative Methods, Department of Educational Psychology
• Dr. Mitchell J. Neubert, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development-Business, the Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business and Professor of Management
• Dr. Holly K. Oxhandler, Associate Dean for Research-Social Work and Professor of Social Work
• Dr. Jerry Park, Associate Professor of Sociology
• Dr. James A. Roberts, the Ben H. Williams Professor of Marketing
• Dr. Robert C. Roberts, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ethics and Resident Scholar, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
• Dr. Christie M. Sayes, Professor of Environmental Science
• Dr. Markus H. Schafer, Professor of Sociology and Graduate Program Director
• Dr. Michael K. Scullin, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
• Dr. Rodney Stark, Retired Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences (died in 2022)
• Dr. Jo-Ann C. Tsang, Associate Professor of Psychology (pictured above)
• Dr. Garritt J. Tucker, the Eula Mae and John Baugh Chair of Physics and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Program
• Dr. Laura Upenieks, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Undergraduate Program Director
• Dr. Annette von Jouanne, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Dr. Kirk Wakefield (MBA ’81), Professor Emeritus of Marketing
• Dr. Alan X. Wang, the Mearse Chair in Biological and Biomedical Engineering Professor
• Dr. Anzhong Wang, Professor of Physics
• Dr. Marley W. Watkins, Research Professor, Educational Psychology
• Dr. Robert Woodberry, Research Associate Professor, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
• Dr. Bernd Zechmann, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Microscopy and Imaging
• Dr. Stephen Zhang, the Terry L. Maness Chair of Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor

Sic ’em, Baylor researchers!