Liu among “most cited” on global list of top researchers
The list recognizes 6,636 research scientists from across the globe who have offered expertise and significantly influenced their respective fields of research. The list is created from highly cited papers in the top 1% of citations for field and publication year in Clarivate’s Web of Science citation index.
All four MSU researchers on this year’s awardees were also on the 2023 list. Researchers from more than 1,200 institutions in 59 nations and regions. The United States remains the world leader with 2,507 Highly Cited Researcher awards.
Liu, a University Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has conducted cutting-edge research across multiple scales (local to global) through integrating theories, methods, and data from approximately three dozen diverse disciplines. He has pioneered the development and applications of the telecoupling framework to understand complex human-nature interactions over distances across the globe. He has also developed the integrated metacoupling framework for achieving sustainable development worldwide.
He was named as a highly cited researcher in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023. He is a core faculty member in MSU's Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program.
Also named this year from MSU:
Morteza Mahmoudi is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology and Precision Health Program in the College of Human Medicine.
David Roy is the director of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations in the College of Social Science and a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences.
James Tiedje is a University Distinguished Professor and the director of the MSU Center for Microbial Ecology in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
