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CU Boulder researchers featured among highly cited researchers in 2025

CU Boulder researchers featured among highly cited researchers in 2025

Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, announced on Nov. 12, again includes a number CU Boulder faculty who are demonstrating “broad and significant influence in their fields.”

In addition to authoring “multiple Highly Cited Papers ranking the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science Core Collection over the past eleven years,” these individuals are further selected through a rigorous process including both quantitative and qualitative measures.

These researchers are being recognized for their outsized influence on their fields of study globally.

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Jennifer K. Balch: Professor of Geography; Director, Earth Lab; Fellow of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Matthew C. Beard: Fellow of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Joseph J. Berry: Associate Professor of Physics; Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Alan C. Bovik: Professor of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Jason A. Burdick: Bowman Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; BioFrontiers

Aaron Clauset: Professor of Computer Science; BioFrontiers Institute

Noah Fierer: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Jose-Luis Jimenez: Distinguished Professor of Chemistry; Fellow of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Daniel B. Larremore: Associate Professor of Computer Science; BioFrontiers Institute

Joseph M. Luther: Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Michael D. McGehee: Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering Program; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Erica J. Nelson: Assistant Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences; Fellow, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA)

Roy Parker: Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; Director, BioFrontiers Institute

John L. Rinn: Professor of Biochemistry; BioFrontiers Institute

Michael F. Toney: Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering Program

Merritt R. Turetsky: Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Fellow of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Tor D. Wager: Formerly CU Boulder Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Institute of Cognitive Science. Now the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College

Jun Ye: Professor Adjoint of Physics; Distinguished Fellow at JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Wei Zhang: Professor of Chemistry

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