SOCORRO, N.M. – Due to their research expertise and contributions to their fields, a prestigious list has recognized current and retired faculty members at New Mexico Tech as among the top 2% of the most cited scientists worldwide. The global database, published by an international information and analytics company and ranking scientists according to their citations, was recently updated through calendar year 2021.

The publicly available Elsevier listing – “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" – is updated yearly and is thought to be the only large-scale database that systematically ranks 100,000 of the most-cited scientists in the world. The database provides standardized information on citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Separate data are shown for career-long impact, which covers citations throughout history, and single-year impact.

Included in the listing are the following researchers, some of whom are now retired or have emeritus status, affiliated with New Mexico Tech:

Single-year impact:  

• Kent C. Condie, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geochemistry, Earth & Environmental Science
• Bixiang Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics
• Randall Seright, Ph.D., Associate Director, PRRC; Adjunct Faculty, Petroleum and Chemical Engineering
• Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Ph.D., Professor, Business and Technology Management
• J. S. Buckley, Ph.D., Senior Scientist Emeritus, PRRC, Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry
• David J. Raymond, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Physics
• Fred M. Phillips, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Hydrology, Earth & Environmental Science
• Gary J. Axen, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geology, Earth & Environmental Science
• A. Fakhimi, Ph.D., Professor, Mining Engineering; Adjunct Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
• Philip R. Kyle, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geochemistry
• Brian Borchers, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics
• Wenyang Gao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemistry
• Mostafa Hassanalian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• D. Choudhuri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering

Lifetime impact:

• Kent C. Condie, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geochemistry, Earth & Environmental Science
• Toshiyuki Sueyoshi, Ph.D., Professor, Business and Technology Management
• Randall Seright, Associate Director, PRRC; Adjunct Faculty, Petroleum and Chemical Engineering
• Fred M. Phillips, Emeritus Professor, Hydrology, Earth & Environmental Science
• David J. Raymond, Emeritus Professor, Physics
• J. S. Buckley, Senior Scientist Emeritus, PRRC, Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry
• Bixiang Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics
• Gary J. Axen, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geology, Earth & Environmental Science
• Philip R. Kyle, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Geochemistry
• John G. Curro, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, Materials Engineering
• T.L. Kieft, Ph.D., Professor, Biology
• John L Wilson, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Hydrology, Earth & Environmental Science
• Brian Borchers, Ph.D., Professor, Mathematics
• L. W. Teufel, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Petroleum Engineering
• T. David Burleigh, Ph.D., Professor and Department Chair, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
• A. Fakhimi, Ph.D., Professor, Mining Engineering; Adjunct Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
  Jun Zheng, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering