A total of 8 current faculty of Missouri S&T Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are among the top researchers in their field as measured by their career research records, and 4 researchers were among the best in their fields in 2022, according to a recent analysis of standardized citation indicators of the Elsevier Data Repository published by Stanford University.
The Stanford study published Oct. 4, 2023, analyzes citations, h-index, and other metrics of research productivity and impact including a composite indicator (c-score). The analysis provides listings of top-scientists based on career-long and single-year impact. The study classifies individuals into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. The fields include agriculture, biology, biomedical, built environment and design, chemistry, clinal medicine, economics and business, engineering, historical studies, information and communication technologies, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, public health, social sciences, and others.
The top 2% includes approximately 210,000 individuals from a field of over 9.6 million authors worldwide who have at least 5 papers published in the Elsevier Scopus database. Career-long data are updated through the end of 2022, and the selection is based on the top 100,000 researchers as determined by a composite citation metric known as a “c-score” (with and without self-citations) or by their percentile rank of 2% or above.
S&T Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering researchers included in the study are as follows. “Career” denotes those recognized for their career-long impact in their fields, “2022” denotes those recognized for their single-year research productivity for 2022, and “both” denotes individuals recognized for both their career-long impact and research productivity for 2022.
Aerospace engineering
- Dr. Serhat Hosder, James A. Drallmeier Centennial Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (career)
- Dr. David Riggins, Chancellor’s Professor and Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of aerospace engineering (career)
Mechanical engineering
- Dr. Douglas Bristow, professor and director of the Center for Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies (career)
- Dr. K. Chandrashekhara, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (both)
- Dr. Umit Koylu, professor of mechanical engineering (career)
- Dr. Ming C. Leu, Keith and Pat Bailey Professor and former director of the Intelligent Systems Center (both)
- Dr. Frank Liou, Michael and Joyce Bytnar Professor and interim director of the Intelligent Systems Center (both)
- Dr. Xiaodong Yang, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (both)
(The featured image includes top 2% researchers who are currently working at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. From top left: Dr. Serhat Hosder; Dr. David Riggins; Dr. Douglas Bristow; Dr. K. Chandrashekhara; Dr. Umit Koylu; Dr. Ming C. Leu; Dr. Frank Liou; Dr. Xiaodong Yang)