Engineering professor Adeyemi Adesina is the latest UWindsor researcher to make the list of the world’s most influential academics.
An unprecedented number of UWindsor professors are among the world’s most influential academics, according to an annual ranking by researchers at Stanford University.
Each year, Stanford University and information analytics company Elsevier compile a database of the most-cited researchers. This year, 40 current and former UWindsor professors made the list.
“This most-cited researchers list speaks to the breadth of expertise and research excellence at our institution,” said Shanthi Johnson, UWindsor’s vice-president, research and innovation.
“I'm delighted so many of our researchers have been recognized in this way. I extend to them my heartiest congratulations.”
The study, which lists the top two per cent of scholars in their fields of expertise, is based on metrics that assess the publication records and citations of roughly 7 million academics from 1965 to 2023. The database is derived from Elsevier’s Scopus database of abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It corrects for self-citations and co-authorships, and reflects a scholar’s influence rather than just their publication count.
The list includes current or past professors across several faculties and disciplines, with 20 from the Faculty of Engineering. Nine are chemists and others are ecologists, social workers, sociologists, mathematicians, physicists, geomorphologists, neuropsychologists, and philosophers.
Some are early career researchers, while others made so many contributions over their lifetimes they continue to make the list posthumously.
Engineering professor Adeyemi Adesina is the latest UWindsor researcher to make the list. Joining the University in October 2023, he made the list for the first time three years ago with papers he co-authored while completing his PhD.
Dr. Adesina studies the sustainability and durability of concrete, alternative binders in cement, low-carbon alternatives to cement, and the use of waste products such as plastics in construction.
“We use a lot of this material and there’s a lot of research in this field,” he said, modestly crediting the subject matter for why his work is highly cited.
“It’s the current push for sustainability… It’s the time for it.”