Four faculty among top-cited UChicago researchers on Google Scholar

December 17, 2020

Four Physical Science Division (PSD) scientists ranked among the most cited University of Chicago scholars, according to Google Scholar. Researchers included on the list have public Google Scholar profiles with verified email addresses at UChicago. 

Google Scholar Citations

University Ranking Name Research Field(s) Citations
1

Robert W. Gardner Jr

Deputy Dean of Computing, Physical Sciences Division, and Research Professor, Enrico Fermi Institute

High Energy PhysicsDistributed ComputingAdvanced Cyberinfrastructure Cited by 292140
2

Fukun Tang

Electronics Engineer, Enrico Fermi Institute

Electronics Design for High Energy Physics & Cosmological Physics Cited by 275701
3

Mark Oreglia

Professor, Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute

Particle Physics Cited by 231259
9

Ian T. Foster

Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Computer Science

Division Director, Distinguished Fellow, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne

Computer ScienceComputational ScienceDistributed ComputingData Science Cited by 124189

Gardner, Tang, and Oreglia are all part of the US ATLAS collaboration, which consists of 3000 scientists from 182 institutions and 38 countries. In 2012, physicists from the ATLAS experiment, a particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, announced that they’d observed a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson. This paper, published in Physics Letters B, has been cited 28508 times, according to Google Scholar, a count which includes merged citations.

Rob Gardner, Fukun Tang, Mark Oreglia, and Ian T Foster (L to R)
Robert Gardner, Fukun Tang, Mark Oreglia, and Ian T. Foster

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