Nearly 60 scientists and professors from Houston-area universities and institutions, working in fields from ecology to immunology, have been named among the most-cited researchers in the world.

The Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list considers a global pool of public academic papers that rank in the top 1 percent of citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science. It then ranks researchers by the number of times their work has been cited, or referenced, by other researchers, which, according to the University of Houston, helps their findings "become more impactful and gain further credibility."

This year 6,938 researchers from 70 different countries were named to this list. About 38 percent of the researchers are based in the U.S.

“Research fuels the race for knowledge and it is important that nations and institutions celebrate the individuals who drive the wheel of innovation. The Highly Cited Researchers list identifies and celebrates exceptional individual researchers who are having a significant impact on the research community as evidenced by the rate at which their work is being cited by their peers," says David Pendlebury, head of research analysis at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate, in a statement. "These individuals are helping to transform human ingenuity into our world’s greatest breakthroughs.”

Harvard University was home to the most researchers, with 233 researchers making the list, far outpacing Stanford University, which had the second highest total of 126 researchers.

Texas universities and institutions had a strong showing, too. The University of Texas at Austin had 31 researchers on the list, tying UT with the University of Minnesota and Peking University in China for the No. 35 spot. MD Anderson had 30 researchers on the list, the most among organizations in Houston, earning it a 38th place ranking, tied with the University of Maryland and University of Michigan.

Below is a list of the Houston-area highly cited researchers and their fields.

From UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Jaffer Ajani (Cross-Field)
• James P. Allison (Immunology)
• Jan A. Burger (Clinical Medicine)
• George Calin (Cross-Field)
• Jorge Cortes (Clinical Medicine)
• Courtney DiNardo (Clinical Medicine)
• John V. Heymach (Clinical Medicine)
• David Hong (Cross-Field)
• Gabriel N. Hortobagyi (Cross-Field)
• Robert R. Jenq (Cross-Field)
• Hagop M.Kantarjian (Clinical Medicine)
• Marina Y. Konopleva (Clinical Medicine)
• Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis (Cross-Field)
• Scott E. Kopetz (Clinical Medicine)
• Alexander J. Lazar (Cross-Field)
• J. Jack Lee (Cross-Field)
• Anirban Maitra (Clinical Medicine)
• Robert Z. Orlowski (Clinical Medicine)
• Padmanee Sharma (Clinical Medicine and Molecular Biology and Genetics)
• Anil K. Good (Cross-Field)
• Jennifer A. Wargo (Molecular Biology and Genetics)
• William G. Wierda (Clinical Medicine)

From Baylor College of Medicine

• Erez Lieberman Aiden (Cross-Field)
• Nadim J. Ajami (Cross-Field)
• Christie M. Ballantyne (Clinical Medicine)
• Malcolm K. Brenner (Cross-Field)
• Hashem B. El-Serag (Clinical Medicine)
• Richard Gibbs (Cross-Field)
• Heslop, Helen Cross-Field
• Joseph Jankovic (Cross-Field)
• Sheldon L. Kaplan (Immunology)
• Joseph F. Petrosino (Cross-Field)
• Cliona Rooney (Cross-Field)
• James Versalovic (Cross-Field)
• Bing Zhang (Cross-Field)

From Rice University

• Plucker M. Ajayan (Materials Science)
• Pedro J. J. Alvarez (Environment and Ecology)
• Naomi Halas (Materials Science)
• Jun Lou (Materials Science)
• Antonios G. Nikos (Cross-Field)
• Aditya D. Mohite (Cross-Field)
• Peter Nordlander (Materials Science)
• Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Physics)
• James M. Tour (Materials Science)
• Robert Vajtai (Materials Science)
• Haotian Wang (Chemistry)
• Zhen-Yu Wu (Cross-Field)

From University of Houston

• Jiming Bao (Cross-Field)
• Shuo Chen (Cross-Field)
• Whiffing Ren (Cross-Field)
• Zhu Han (Computer Science)

From UTMB Galveston

• Vineet D.Menachery (Microbiology)
• Nikos Vasilakis (Cross-Field
• Scott C. Weaver (Cross-Field)
• From UT Health Science Center-Houston
• Eric Boerwinkle (Cross-Field)