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UO’s 100 most excellent faculty

According to Google Scholar, ranked by # of citations:

1 Paul Slovic Decision Research and University of Oregon, Cited by 138270
2 Michael I. Posner Prof Emeritus of psychology University of Oregon, Cited by 113549
3 Mark Johnson Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Cited by 83921
4 William H Starbuck University of Oregon, Cited by 42439
5 John Postlethwait Professor of Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 25357
6 Alan D. Meyer Professor of Management, University of Oregon, Cited by 20683
7 Patrick J. Bartlein Professor of Geography, University of Oregon, Cited by 18767
8 Helen Neville Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Cited by 18324
9 cq doe Univ Oregon, Cited by 17113
10 Russell J. Donnelly University of Oregon, Cited by 16072
11 Linda Price Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon, Cited by 15847
12 John Bellamy Foster Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, Cited by 14464
13 Lynn Kahle Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon, Cited by 14433
14 Gregory John Retallack University of Oregon, Cited by 14192
15 Jon Erlandson Professor of Anthropology, Executive Director of the Museum of Natural & Cultural Historty, Cited by 13758
16 Sanjay Srivastava Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 13113
17 Judith H. Hibbard Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon, Cited by 12719
18 Greg Bothun, Gregory Bothun, GD Bothun, G. Bothun University of Oregon, Cited by 12690
19 Nicholas Allen University of Oregon, Cited by 12207
20 Dipongkar Talukder Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Oregon, Cited by 11974
21 Brendan Bohannan Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 11899
22 Michael G. Raymer Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics, University of …, Cited by 10698
23 Jennifer Freyd University of Oregon, Cited by 10525
24 James E. Hutchison Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 10011
25 Bruce Bowerman Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 9984
26 Shannon Boettcher Assoc. Prof. Chemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 9670
27 Albert O. Edwards, MD, PhD Oregon Retina, Oregon Health Sciences University, University of Oregon, Mayo Clinic, …, Cited by 9668
28 Douglas Hintzman Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 9432
29 Bruce Blonigen University of Oregon, Cited by 8972
30 ulrich mayr University of Oregon, Cited by 8966
31 George W Evans University of Oregon, Cited by 8453
32 Michael M. Haley Richard M. & Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 8362
33 T. Bettina Cornwell Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon, Cited by 8148
34 Phil Fisher University of Oregon, Cited by 8144
35 Jessica L. Green University of Oregon, Cited by 8064
36 Christopher Minson Professor of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Cited by 7802
37 Reza Rejaie Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Cited by 7721
38 Gerard Saucier Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 7637
39 Louis Moses Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 7627
40 Craig M. Young Professor of Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 7503
41 Alice Barkan University of Oregon, Cited by 7435
42 Andrew Karduna University of Oregon, Cited by 7082
43 Patrick C. Phillips Professor of Biology, Institute for Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Cited by 6925
44 Stephen Fickas Professor of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon, Cited by 6867
45 John R Halliwill, PhD Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Cited by 6754
46 Trudy Ann Cameron RF Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Oregon, Cited by 6653
47 Michael V. Russo Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management, University of Oregon, Cited by 6653
48 Scott Bridgham Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, Cited by 6621
49 Richard York Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, Cited by 6373
50 Nash Unsworth University of Oregon, Cited by 6150
51 Allen D. Malony University of Oregon, Cited by 6124
52 Paul J. Wallace University of Oregon, Cited by 6099
53 Robert M. O’Brien Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, Cited by 5886
54 Ronald B. Mitchell Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, Cited by 5851
55 Gordon C. Nagayama Hall University of Oregon, Cited by 5788
56 Eric A. Johnson Associate Professor, Inst. of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon. Founder, SNPsaurus, Cited by 5771
57 Hailin Wang Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA, Cited by 5407
58 Leslie Leve University of Oregon, Cited by 5214
59 David Krinsley Courtesy Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Cited by 5097
60 William T Harbaugh Professor of Economics, University of Oregon, Cited by 5067
61 David C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 4936
62 Kim Sheehan University of Oregon, Cited by 4843
63 Dietrich Belitz University of Oregon, Cited by 4749
64 Ilya Bindeman Professor of Geology, U of Oregon, Cited by 4741
65 Jennifer H. Pfeifer Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Cited by 4734
66 Karen Guillemin Professor of Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 4720
67 Robert Madrigal Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Cited by 4675
68 Li-Shan Chou University of Oregon, Cited by 4476
69 Scott DeLancey University of Oregon, Cited by 4426
70 Ray Weldon Professor of Geology, University of Oregon, Cited by 4419
71 CJ Pascoe Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, Cited by 4406
72 Josh Roering Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Cited by 4241
73 Holly Arrow Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 4148
74 Douglas R. Toomey University of Oregon, Cited by 4131
75 Ken Prehoda Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 3989
76 Jeremy Piger Professor of Economics, University of Oregon, Cited by 3851
77 Victoria DeRose Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Cited by 3844
78 Daniel G. Gavin Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Cited by 3736
79 Sameer Shende Director, Performance Research Laboratory, University of Oregon and President, ParaTools, …, Cited by 3616
80 Azim Shariff Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 3580
81 Michael Pluth Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Cited by 3452
82 Hans C. Dreyer Assistant Professor of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Cited by 3435
83 Diane Del Guercio Gerry and Marilyn Cameron Professor of Finance, University of Oregon, Cited by 3376
84 Gina Biancarosa University of Oregon, Cited by 3290
85 Jamie Bridgham University of Oregon, Cited by 3275
86 Michael Wehr University of Oregon, Cited by 3242
87 Lynn Stephen University of Oregon, Cited by 3212
88 David Boush Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon, Cited by 3147
89 Christopher Murray University of Oregon, Cited by 3144
90 Laura Lee McIntyre Professor of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Cited by 3103
91 Spencer Chang Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Oregon, Cited by 3090
92 Terry Hunt Dean & Professor, Anthropology, University of Oregon, Cited by 2977
93 Sara D. Hodges University of oregon, Cited by 2966
94 Seth C. Lewis Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon; Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School, Cited by 2930
95 Michelle Wood Professor of Biology, University of Oregon, Cited by 2925
96 Raghuveer Parthasarathy The University of Oregon, Department of Physics, Cited by 2742
97 Pranjal Mehta Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon, Cited by 2736
98 Jessica M. Cronce University of Oregon, Cited by 2658
99 Victor Ostrik` Professor, University of Oregon, Cited by 2636
100 Elizabeth Skowron University of Oregon, Cited by 2596

Not on the list? You need to claim your Google Scholar identity, associate with UO, and mark your papers. Rumor has it that President Schill will buy everyone with more than 5000 citations a drink down at the faculty club next Wednesday.

18 Comments

  1. honest Uncle Bernie 04/20/2017

    This list appears to be very incomplete. Yours truly and others not there. Not registered with google scholars, perhaps?

    We must have a very distinguished faculty, some have more citations than Einstein!

    Of course, Einstein quit publishing in 1955. Imagine what his h-index might be if he had kept going. Could have built quite a reputation!

    • Analytics chap 04/20/2017

      Only individuals who have set up a google Scholar profile are included. Some folks set up profiles for deceased individuals [ at least I assume Darwin did not do his own!]. So set one up!

      • Oryx 04/20/2017

        At least one person on the list is, in fact, deceased! (And, as HUB mentioned, it excludes some stellar people without Google Scholar profiles.)

        • Analytics chap 04/20/2017

          yes indeed; using web-of- science, and the correction factor for chemists [ see below] I put Matthews at ~ 50-75,000 GS citations.

  2. jackmccoy 04/20/2017

    Regarding psychology, when you have a reproducability crisis you end up citing a lot of papers because none of them agree….:-)

    • Analytics chap 04/20/2017

      There is a amusing index one can calculate. Web-of Science[ ISI] counts citations in a select group of journals, conference proceedings, and books . google Scholar counts a large array of sources as valid citing documents [ hard to know just what, but its some presence on the WEB that counts]. So one can get the count ratio of GS vs Web Of Science; for fun call this the Softness Index; its quite variable among disciplines, close to 1-1.5 in physics/chemistry, scientific-ecology, molecular biology….maybe 3 in applied ecology like fisheries… up to 4-5 in Economics and Psychology. Some of the causal-stuff for this variation is the low coverage of books in ISI [ except in Social science], and the coverage of the Gray Literature in GS[ fisheries has a vast gray lit]: Fun to speculate on causal factors here.

      • Anas clypeata 04/20/2017

        All of this is in addition to the system-wide bias that appears to exist in relation to departments where research is more oriented toward practice and less toward publishing, like art, architecture, and similar disciplines. To take a list like this (somewhat) seriously, it might have to broken down by discipline, after which one could compare faculty from a given discipline at the UO with faculty in that discipline as a whole. Tricky business.

        • Peter Keyes 04/21/2017

          This is true. In architectural practice, the traditional methodology is to just copy the work of others, without citation. This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in academia.

  3. Dog 04/20/2017

    I think most of us faculty will claim that we are on this list and therefore the flaw rides with how citations are counted.

    In my own case, I may or may not be on this list -but

    a) from my own experience Google scholar overcounts citations and they must be filtered – this seems to be about a 10% effect

    b) while I am not a strong fan of H-scores, I do think they have some value and are better than number of citations; since you get that for free from google scholar you might want to do a list of 100 h-scores –
    maybe without names but just research areas

    c) citations really need to be normalized to the growth of publications in a field – its is ridiculous to talk about Einstein at a time when the number of physical journals was about 50 times less than is now and the actual number of physicists was greatly less than now.

    d) the most difficult thing to do with this kind of data is to devise an IMPACT parameter – there have been various attempts at this, but all on them are flawed.

  4. Dog 04/20/2017

    More

    1) I assume this list was set up to show where Freyd is and that is fine – just change the title of the post to reflect that

    2) I suspect that Brian Mathews would be in the top 3 were is profile included

    3) I hope penis evny doesn’t occur as a result of this post – to all: this is not the correct way to measure size …

  5. environmental necessity 04/20/2017

    These are all great scholars we are fortunate to have as members of the UO community. There is a least one individual on the Nobel bubble in the group.

    That said, no one cognizant of the state-of-the-art in bibliometrics or citation analyses takes raw citation count alone seriously as a measure of productivity or quality of scholarship.

    For one thing, this is Google Scholar by itself, and not even their more sophisticated impact measures such as the h-index (itself problematic). It does not index all and it also indexes marginally-academic citations while discounting web-only scholarship (ironically). Second, it doesn’t normalize for field publishing norms such as article length, format, extent of time in development, or quality of peer review. Third, it counts all citations equally even if the citation is in a low-impact journal. Fourth, it obviously advantages older scholars regardless of the quality or impact of their work simply due to longevity and opportunity. Fifth, it is no measure of the quality or impact of the contribution (“this is the most idiotic article in the history of scholarship” counts the same as “this is groundbreaking work that will change the field”). Finally, publication and citation by other scholars is but one aspect, albeit the most important aspect, of faculty “excellence”.

    The main point: No one who understands modern influence metrics uses raw citation count. It is like rating the offensive impact of baseball players using only batting average. It tells you something, but not as much as most assume.

  6. Dog 04/20/2017

    okay now produce a plot of Salary vs Citation Number …

  7. Dog 04/20/2017

    So Okay I am probably on this list, maybe, but the latest Schill missive (not yet posted by UOM) about our budget problems contains these precious words:

    Eliminating the strategic investment fund

    Yeah, that’s the kind of forward looking University that I like …

  8. who's who on google scholar 04/20/2017

    And for just $19.99, you can get a certificate showing how many citations you have!

  9. dog 04/22/2017

    Seriously, what is the purpose for even publishing this
    list? Does it serve anything?

    I think its best to retract it and for the record
    if you Google Scholarly Dog Citations – this is what you get

    The Dog That Did Not Bark: No-Citation Rules, Judicial Conference Rulemaking, and Federal Public Defenders

    • Oryx 04/22/2017

      Completely agree.

    • OSU fan 04/22/2017

      In a real sense the list has existed for a long time, years,as it does for any University.
      Just find any UO faculty with a GS profile, and put UOREGON into the GS profile search box,… hit enter: this list will be the result. Sometimes one must be a little tricky in the search phrase[ UOREGON works well for UO], but its pretty easy nonetheless.
      Actually the UO list has gotten bigger since UOM pulled this stunt; several of your highly cited physical scientists now have public GS profiles, and I can detect other UO folks who have done the same. So the list here is already dated.Getting folks to be public with GS Profiles seems a worthy goal.
      As for the usefulness of the ranking, many wrinkles to consider, and several are in this thread.

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