Researchers at Virginia Tech

1. 1Viswanath VenkateshUnited States · #980 worldwide86k citations · 284 works
2. 2M. Joseph SirgyUnited States · #4,722 worldwide32k citations · 527 works
3. 3Muzaffer UysalUnited States · #5,104 worldwide28k citations · 329 works
4. 4Paul Benjamin LowryUnited States · #5,470 worldwide17k citations · 455 works
5. 5Ralph BuehlerUnited States · #10,652 worldwide13k citations · 168 works
6. 6F.C. LeeUnited States · #12,453 worldwide29k citations · 408 works
7. 7Weiguo FanUnited States · #15,046 worldwide15k citations · 360 works
8. 8James E.HawdonUnited States · #15,276 worldwide4.3k citations · 287 works
9. 9Theodore S. RappaportUnited States · #15,540 worldwide71k citations · 534 works
10. 10Linsey C. MarrUnited States · #16,063 worldwide21k citations · 282 works
11. 11Wenjing LouUnited States · #18,155 worldwide33k citations · 434 works
12. 12Walid SaadUnited States · #20,328 worldwide46k citations · 1,040 works
13. 13Gearóid Ó TuathailUnited States · #21,266 worldwide4.8k citations · 82 works
14. 14Dennis R. DeanUnited States · #23,903 worldwide24k citations · 325 works
15. 15Juan Luis NicolauUnited States · #25,448 worldwide7.9k citations · 309 works
16. 16William H. WoodallUnited States · #26,128 worldwide20k citations · 315 works
17. 17Nancy Gard McGeheeUnited States · #28,480 worldwide7.1k citations · 101 works
18. 18Hanif D. SheraliUnited States · #30,514 worldwide20k citations · 489 works
19. 19France BélangerUnited States · #32,221 worldwide9.5k citations · 114 works
20. 20Jia‐Bin HuangUnited States · #35,897 worldwide26k citations · 280 works
21. 21Xiang‐Jin MengUnited States · #37,523 worldwide30k citations · 354 works
22. 22Hesham A. RakhaUnited States · #37,656 worldwide15k citations · 667 works
23. 23John C. SmartUnited States · #38,122 worldwide9.1k citations · 170 works
24. 24Richard R. PerdueUnited States · #38,460 worldwide7.1k citations · 116 works
25. 25John M. McDowellUnited States · #38,700 worldwide9.1k citations · 117 works
26. 26Arun G. PHADKEUnited States · #39,509 worldwide15k citations · 193 works
27. 27Alan E. BayerUnited States · #40,852 worldwide6.3k citations · 133 works
28. 28Toni CalasantiUnited States · #45,184 worldwide4.8k citations · 230 works
29. 29Fred C. LeeUnited States · #45,189 worldwide21k citations · 442 works
30. 30Susan Williams WhiteUnited States · #45,291 worldwide16k citations · 394 works
31. 31Shuhai XiaoUnited States · #45,856 worldwide22k citations · 491 works
32. 32Anthony A. PegueroUnited States · #48,532 worldwide3.6k citations · 177 works
33. 33Frank O. AylwardUnited States · #50,444 worldwide5.4k citations · 222 works
34. 34Bonnie S. BillingsleyUnited States · #52,012 worldwide5.8k citations · 98 works
35. 35Feng LinUnited States · #55,650 worldwide18k citations · 384 works
36. 36P. Read MontagueUnited States · #55,866 worldwide27k citations · 193 works
37. 37Thomas H. OllendickUnited States · #57,684 worldwide36k citations · 664 works
38. 38Gerard ToalUnited States · #59,006 worldwide2.1k citations · 130 works
39. 39Ali Hasan NayfehUnited States · #59,054 worldwide39k citations · 832 works
40. 40Marion R. ReynoldsUnited States · #60,003 worldwide7.7k citations · 119 works
41. 41Peter J. VikeslandUnited States · #60,459 worldwide15k citations · 293 works
42. 42Amy J. PrudenUnited States · #61,401 worldwide24k citations · 368 works
43. 43Julie L. OzanneUnited States · #64,639 worldwide25k citations · 106 works
44. 44Steve HankeyUnited States · #65,526 worldwide3.1k citations · 127 works
45. 45Daniel John InmanUnited States · #65,616 worldwide51k citations · 1,061 works
46. 46Kevin BoyleUnited States · #66,567 worldwide14k citations · 387 works
47. 47Liviu LibrescuUnited States · #67,066 worldwide9.5k citations · 410 works
48. 48Sattar MansiUnited States · #67,619 worldwide12k citations · 128 works
49. 49James S. ThorpUnited States · #72,780 worldwide18k citations · 328 works
50. 50Jackson R. WebsterUnited States · #73,431 worldwide24k citations · 233 works
51. 51Daniel Judson BealUnited States · #74,568 worldwide10k citations · 91 works
52. 52Eranga Kokila GalappaththiUnited States · #77,534 worldwide3k citations · 63 works
53. 53Marc J. SternUnited States · #79,910 worldwide4.7k citations · 194 works
54. 54Michael F. HochellaUnited States · #81,084 worldwide20k citations · 293 works
55. 55Manisha SingalUnited States · #81,487 worldwide3.2k citations · 102 works
56. 56Camillo MarianiUnited States · #81,700 worldwide13k citations · 284 works
57. 57Dushan BoroyevichUnited States · #84,334 worldwide36k citations · 778 works
58. 58Richard A. WinettUnited States · #84,758 worldwide11k citations · 212 works
59. 59Richard M. EislerUnited States · #84,933 worldwide6.2k citations · 113 works
60. 60Zhen HeUnited States · #85,083 worldwide28k citations · 545 works
61. 61Devi R. GnyawalịUnited States · #86,018 worldwide8.8k citations · 100 works
62. 62Sterling J. NesbittUnited States · #86,295 worldwide9.4k citations · 249 works
63. 63Vincent P. MagniniUnited States · #86,829 worldwide4.3k citations · 109 works
64. 64Thomas W. SanchezUnited States · #87,460 worldwide3.9k citations · 225 works
65. 65Ahmed Adel KhdeirUnited States · #87,898 worldwide3.4k citations · 69 works
66. 66Katherine R. AllenUnited States · #88,145 worldwide6.5k citations · 220 works
67. 67Dorothea ThollUnited States · #88,405 worldwide11k citations · 92 works
68. 68Leandro CastelloUnited States · #89,040 worldwide8.7k citations · 115 works
69. 69Zheng XiangUnited States · #90,918 worldwide16k citations · 195 works
70. 70Linqin MuUnited States · #91,115 worldwide6.5k citations · 105 works
71. 71Joseph A. SchetzUnited States · #96,110 worldwide7.8k citations · 521 works
72. 72Shigeo Ted OyamaUnited States · #96,206 worldwide23k citations · 370 works
73. 73Christopher W. ZobelUnited States · #98,890 worldwide4.1k citations · 118 works
74. 74Manisa PipattanasompornUnited States · #102,684 worldwide9k citations · 155 works
75. 75Danfeng Daphne YaoUnited States · #103,065 worldwide5.2k citations · 219 works
76. 76T D WilkinsUnited States · #104,413 worldwide9.8k citations · 125 works
77. 77Michael D. BartlettUnited States · #104,773 worldwide6.9k citations · 110 works
78. 78Shashank PriyaUnited States · #105,680 worldwide37k citations · 782 works
79. 79R.C. BatraUnited States · #106,670 worldwide21k citations · 597 works
80. 80Gang Alan WangUnited States · #107,753 worldwide6.1k citations · 137 works
81. 81Richard A. HuntUnited States · #107,956 worldwide5k citations · 222 works
82. 82Junghwan KimUnited States · #108,570 worldwide1.7k citations · 101 works
83. 83Lei ZuoUnited States · #111,105 worldwide5.3k citations · 109 works
84. 84Paul L. KnoxUnited States · #111,301 worldwide4.4k citations · 155 works
85. 85Saifur RahmanUnited States · #112,131 worldwide14k citations · 263 works
86. 86Leah R. JohnsonUnited States · #113,170 worldwide7.9k citations · 190 works
87. 87Luis E. EscobarUnited States · #113,596 worldwide12k citations · 174 works
88. 88T. Charles ClancyUnited States · #113,815 worldwide12k citations · 261 works
89. 89George A. HilleryUnited States · #114,648 worldwide2.2k citations · 76 works
90. 90Pamela M. Murray‐TuiteUnited States · #115,506 worldwide4.3k citations · 167 works
91. 91Kate E. LangwigUnited States · #116,556 worldwide4.5k citations · 87 works
92. 92Hongliang XinUnited States · #116,941 worldwide12k citations · 131 works
93. 93Ling Lei LisicUnited States · #117,067 worldwide2.7k citations · 69 works
94. 94Chris L. NorthUnited States · #117,705 worldwide8.9k citations · 300 works
95. 95Paul Andrew EstabrooksUnited States · #118,122 worldwide20k citations · 554 works
96. 96John Eric TaylorUnited States · #118,506 worldwide16k citations · 509 works
97. 97C. A. RogersUnited States · #120,414 worldwide6.6k citations · 110 works
98. 98Ian M. ShoemakerUnited States · #120,594 worldwide3.4k citations · 124 works
99. 99Mohammad MozaffariUnited States · #121,391 worldwide7.2k citations · 90 works
100. 100Joseph O. FalkinhamUnited States · #121,517 worldwide14k citations · 280 works

Ranked on quality: the share of their papers in the world top 10% for their field and year, with output counting too. Affiliation is the institution a researcher publishes from most; identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation.