Six Virginia Tech researchers among world's most highly cited
Clarivate's highly-cited reresearchers represent about 1 in 1,000 of the scientists and social scientists in the world, according to the company.
Six Virginia Tech researchers are among their field’s most cited in the world.
Wenjing Lou, Walid Saad, Linsey Marr, Lina Quan, Kwok-Leung Tsui, and Viswanath Venkatesh have been named to the 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list for demonstrating significant influence in their fields or across multiple fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. This group of highly cited researchers represents about 1 in 1,000 of the scientists and social scientists in the world, according to Clarivate.
Citations — other scientists referencing a researcher’s findings in their own academic papers — are not only an acknowledgment of excellent work, but an indicator that work is playing a significant role in moving the researcher’s field forward.
A global company that maintains the Web of Science, Clarivate compiles an annual list of researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.
Get to know the researchers
Wenjing Lou, the W.C. English Professor of Computer Science
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2011
- Holds a courtesy appointment in electrical and computer engineering and is an affiliate faculty member of the Virginia Tech-led Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
- An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow since 2015 and Association for Computing Machinery fellow since 2024
- Recognized with the Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research Excellence in 2018
- Research interests include cybersecurity with a focus on blockchain, privacy protection in machine learning systems, mobile ad hoc networks, and security and privacy problems in the Internet of Things systems
- Has been named a highly cited researcher six times
- Most cited work: "Enabling Public Auditability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing"
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Walid Saad, professor of electrical and computer engineering
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2014
- The Next-G Wireless Faculty lead for the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus; leads the Network Intelligence, Wireless, and Security Laboratory; and is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow
- Research interests include the intersection of wireless systems, artificial intelligence (AI), game theory, quantum communication, and cyber-physical systems, including seminal contributions to emerging wireless systems such as 5G, 6G, and beyond as well as machine learning and AI/edge computing
- Has been named a highly cited researcher six times
- Most cited work: "A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems"
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Linsey Marr, University Distinguished Professor and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2003
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and a 2022 winner of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award
- Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research, the American Geophysical Union, and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
- Research interests include transformation and fate of pollutants in the atmosphere, transmission of infectious disease via aerosols, viruses in the built environment, and environmental and health impacts of engineered nanoparticles
- Featured on CBS’ "60 Minutes" for work related to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Second time being named a highly cited researcher
- Most cited work: "How Can Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 Indoors Be Minimized?"
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Lina Quan, assistant professor of chemistry
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2021
- Research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors such as perovskites for use in next-generation optoelectronic applications
- Employs a number of cutting-edge characterization techniques — ultrafast laser spectroscopy, synchrotron X-ray — to study the photophysics and the structural dynamics of materials and devices with high spatial and temporal resolutions
- Affliate of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Named a highly-cited researcher six times
- Most cited work: "Perovskite Light-emitting Diodes with External Quantum Efficiency Exceeding 20 Percent"
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Kwok Tsui, professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2020
- Research interests include data science and predictive analytics, surveillance in health care and public health, personalized health monitoring, prognostics and systems health management, calibration and validation of computer models, process control and monitoring, and robust design and Taguchi methods
- Recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and a fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Society for Quality, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, International Society of Engineering Asset Management, and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
- Elected member and council member of International Statistical Institute and was the U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee on Statistical Methods
- Second time being named to Clarivate’s list
- Most cited work: "State of Charge Estimation of Lithium-ion Batteries Using the Open-circuit Voltage at Various Ambient Temperatures "
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Viswanath Venkatesh, the Verizon Professor in Department of Business Information Technology
- Joined Virginia Tech in 2021
- Research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and society, and he has published several high-impact papers related to societal and organizational problems
- His work related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in rural India has been recognized for its impact by journals, governments and non-governmental organizations
- Published over 140 journal articles in various fields, including human-computer interaction, information systems, organizational behavior, psychology, marketing, medical informatics, and operations management
- Virginia Tech’s most-cited scholar, per Clarivate’s Web of Science with over 60,000 citations and more than 200,000 citations per Google Scholar, with 23 of papers being cited over 1,000 times
- Third time being named to Clarivate’s list
- Most cited work: “User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward a Unified view”
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