Department of Biology

Jay Lennon and Richard Phillips—both professors in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington—were named on Clarivate's annual Highly Cited Researchers™ list for 2022. This is the fourth straight year for both Lennon and Phillips to be on the list.

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.

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.

Lennon studies microbial ecology and evolution. Phillips studies ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry and investigates the consequences of human-accelerated environmental change on plant-soil-microbial interactions.

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.