Five CAFNR faculty members named as highly ranked scholars




Three faculty members in the Division of Plant Science and Technology, one in the Division of Animal Sciences, and a professor emeritus from Biochemistry, all in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, have been named to the list of Highly Ranked Scholars on ScholarGPS.

Scholars listed include:

  • John Boyer, Distinguished Research Professor, Plant Science and Technology
  • Ron Mittler, Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Plant Science and Technology
  • Henry Nguyen, Professor, Plant Science and Technology
  • R. Michael Roberts, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry
  • Tom Spencer, Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Animal Sciences

Highly Ranked Scholars™ are the most productive (number of publications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™ classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct specialties, 177 disciplines, and 14 fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified within each Specialty, Discipline, Field, and all Fields. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better.