A total of 10 faculty members of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists recognized either for their career-long impact or for their 2024 metrics, according to a Stanford University analysis of the Elsevier Data Repository.
The Stanford study, published Sept. 19, analyzes citations, h-index and other standardized indicators of research productivity and impact and combines them into a composite score, or c-score. Researchers are grouped into 22 broad scientific fields and 174 subfields.
Selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists worldwide ranked by their c-score — calculated both with and without self-citations — or those within the top 2% of their subfield. Separate rankings are provided for career-long impact as of 2024 and for single-year performance based on that year’s citations.
The researchers from S&T Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering included in the study are as follows. “Career” denotes those recognized for their career-long impact in their fields, “2024” denotes those recognized for their single-year research productivity for 2024, and “both” denotes individuals recognized for both their career-long impact and research productivity for 2024.
Aerospace engineering
- Dr. Xiaosong Du, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (2024)
- Dr. Serhat Hosder, James A. Drallmeier Centennial Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (both)
Mechanical engineering
- Dr. Victor Birman, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering (both)
- Dr. Douglas Bristow, William E. Walker III Professor and director of the Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies (career)
- Dr. K. Chandrashekhara, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (both)
- Dr. Walter Eversman, Curators’ Distinguished Professor emeritus of aerospace engineering (career)
- Dr. Umit Koylu, professor of mechanical engineering (career)
- Dr. Ming C. Leu, Curator’s Distinguished Professor, Keith and Pat Bailey Distinguished Professor and former director of the Intelligent Systems Center (both)
- Dr. Frank Liou, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Michael and Joyce Bytnar Product Innovation and Creativity Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Intelligent Systems Center (both)
- Dr. Xiaodong Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (both)
(The featured image includes the top 2% of researchers who are currently working at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. From top left: Dr. Xiaosong Du; Dr. Serhat Hosder; Dr. Victor Birman; Dr. Douglas Bristow; Dr. K. Chandrashekhara; Dr. Walter Eversman; Dr. Umit Koylu; Dr. Ming C. Leu; Dr. Frank Liou; Dr. Xiaodong Yang)