32 Carolina faculty named ‘highly cited researchers’
Clarivate’s 2024 international list of trailblazers among peers includes scholars from across the University.
In 2024, 32 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty made Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers, recognizing those who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of study.
Each researcher on the list has authored multiple papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for their field and publication year in Clarivate’s Web of Science platform over the past decade. The list is then refined using qualitative analysis and expert judgment, observing for evidence of community-wide recognition from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors.
This year, 6,636 individual researchers from 59 countries earned the distinction.
Carolina’s most-cited researchers include:
Biology and biochemistry
- Xi-Ping Huang, School of Medicine
- Dr. Bryan L. Roth, School of Medicine, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Clinical medicine
- Dr. John B. Buse, School of Medicine
- Dr. Sidney C. Smith Jr., School of Medicine
Cross-field
- Dr. Gianpietro Dotti, School of Medicine
- Katherine A. Hoadley, School of Medicine
- Barry M. Popkin, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Scott H. Randell, School of Medicine
- Jenny P. Y. Ting, School of Medicine
- Yanqi Ye, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Immunology
- Dr. David van Duin, School of Medicine
Materials science
- Jinsong Huang, College of Arts and Sciences
Microbiology
- Ralph Baric, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Rachel L. Graham, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Lisa E. Gralinski, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Sarah R. Leist, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Alexandra Schaefer, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Timothy P. Sheahan, Gillings School of Global Public Health, School of Medicine
Pharmacology and toxicology
- Dr. Bryan L. Roth, School of Medicine, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Physics
- Jinsong Huang, College of Arts and Sciences
Plant and Animal Science
- Jeff Dangl, College of Arts and Sciences
- Hans W. Paerl, College of Arts and Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Social sciences
- Noel T. Brewer, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Stephen R. Cole, Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Byron J. Powell, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Nine additional researchers who now work at different institutions were cited for work they conducted while at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Cross-field
- Ke Cheng, formerly with Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Yehao Deng, formerly with College of Arts and Sciences
- Kenneth H. Dinnon, formerly with School of Medicine
- John D. McCorvy, formerly with School of Medicine
- Dinggang Shen, formerly with College of Arts and Sciences
- Wujin Sun, formerly with Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Qi Wang, formerly with College of Arts and Sciences
- Haotong Wei, formerly with College of Arts and Sciences
Pharmacology and toxicology
- Aaron C. Anselmo, formerly with Eshelman School of Pharmacy
