De-en Jiang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and of chemistry, is on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers. Jiang also was cited in the 2023 list.
He is among 6,636 “highly cited researchers” around the world whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field of research and publication year in the Web of Science citation index over the past decade, according to the global analytics firm Clarivate, which compiled and released the 2024 list on Nov. 19.
Of the 11 Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University researchers on the list, Jiang is the only one from the university. A Clarivate official said that in calculating their list, all authors of highly cited papers are given equal credit.
“I am honored to be recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher for two consecutive years and look forward to continuing to contribute impactful, interdisciplinary research at Vanderbilt,” said Jiang, whose long-term goal is to “achieve data-driven design of functional materials and molecules for a sustainable society.”
Jiang joined the School of Engineering faculty in fall 2022. His research focuses on applying state-of-the-art computational methods to important chemical and materials systems and energy-relevant problems. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications in such journals as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Energy, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Accounts of Chemical Research, and Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society, that together have been cited 35,000 times and earned him an impressive h-index of 100, according to Google Scholar.
Among his awards and honors are a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award and an early career award from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jiang is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.
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