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April
2003 ISIHighlyCited.com editors have identified 214 researchers in the
Materials Science category. Seventeen countries are represented, with the United
States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany leading the way. The Materials Science category is very much a
composite of specific sub-disciplines within the broader
Physics,
Chemistry, and
Engineering categories. In addition to journals devoted
specifically to materials science, materials engineering, and
metallurgy (e.g. Journal of Materials Research, Advanced
Materials, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions),
journals which cross disciplinary boundaries are well represented:
Chemistry journals related to chemical testing of materials,
chemical coating technology, organic and polymer chemistry (e.g.
Journal of Applied Polymer Science), and aspects of physical
chemistry/chemical physics and electrochemistry (Journal of
Electrochemistry) are frequently cited in Materials Science, as
are journals in areas of Physics such as applied physics (Nanotechnology,
Physics of Metals and Metallography), condensed matter
physics, ceramics (Journal of the American Ceramic Society),
and surface and film deposition (Chemical Vapor Deposition,
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology).
It is therefore no surprise that many of our
Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science are also highly cited
in one or more of the other categories. (11 researchers in Physics,
6 in Engineering, and 2 in Chemistry). Two researchers,
Anthony G. Evans of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hadis
Morkoç of Virginia Commonwealth University (previously profiled
in
Community News), are cited in three categories: Physics, Engineering, and
Materials Science.
While the inherently interdisciplinary nature
of Materials Science predictably leads to frequent cross-citation
with other ISI categories, what may be less expected is the relative
dominance of a few institutions in the field: Pennsylvania State
University dominates the category, with an amazing 12 Highly-Cited
Researchers in materials science based there. This is twice the
number at the next-most influential institution, the University of
Texas at Austin, with 6 Highly Cited materials scientists; the
University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford University, North
Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and
Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung follow closely with 5
apiece. Penn State alone accounts for nearly 5% of the researchers;
the seven top institutions combined host 43, or 20%, of the entire
category. This is the largest percentages to date of
researchers in a given category based at a single institution.
Penn State's success can be partly attributed
to its aggressive efforts to integrate a materials science
curriculum among several colleges and departments, as well as to
develop industry partners, through the prestigious Materials
Research Institute, which grew out of the Materials Research
Laboratory where many of the influential works of the Highly Cited
Researchers in Materials Science were published.
Reflecting the importance of other scientific fields to materials
science, the MRI is composed of researchers from sub-units as
disparate as the College of Medicine, the College of Agricultural
Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics, as well as the more
traditional engineering, chemistry, and physics departments. The
Materials Research Institute can be found on the Web at
http://www.mri.psu.edu/.
Dr. Evans'
profile is available on ISIHighlyCited.com.
Dr. Morkoç's
profile is available on ISIHighlyCited.com.
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