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Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list

Thursday, November 18, 2021

IU trident logo carved in a limestone post on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

Three faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology—Karen Bush, Jay Lennon, and Richard Phillips—were named on Clarivate's annual Highly Cited Researchers™ list for 2021.

The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

Karen Bush. Courtesy photo

Bush, a professor of practice of biotechnology and the interim director of the department's Biotechnology Program, has made the list at least four times in the past decade. This year she was selected in the field of "pharmacology and toxicology." Her research focuses on antibiotic mechanisms of action and resistance as well as antibacterial drug discovery and drug development.

Both Lennon and Phillips are named in the “cross-field” field, which means that they are recognized for being highly cited in more than one Essential Science Indicators™ field.

Jay Lennon, Feb. 2021.
Jay Lennon. Photo by Jean Lennon

Lennon—a professor of biology and the section associate chair for the department's Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Graduate Program—studies microbial ecology and evolution. This is the third year in a row that Lennon has received the Highly Cited Researchers designation.

Rich Phillips. Courtesy photo

Phillips—a professor of biology and director of the department's Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Graduate Program— studies ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry and investigates the consequences of human-accelerated environmental change on plant-soil-microbial interactions. This is also the third year in a row for Phillips to receive the designation.

The methodology that determines the “who’s who” of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information™ at Clarivate. It also uses the tallies to identify the countries and research institutions where these citation elite are based.

David Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said: “It is increasingly important for nations and institutions to recognize and support the exceptional researchers who are driving the expansion of the world’s knowledge. This list identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers in the Department of Biology at Indiana University who are having a significant impact on the research community as evidenced by the rate at which their work is being cited by their peers. The research they have contributed is fueling the innovation, sustainability, health, and security that is key for our society’s future.”

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