Several Faculty Honored for Highly-cited Papers

Engineering faculty in several departments have been cited for their publications, many of which are topping the most accessed and highly-cited lists. A paper from one faculty member is also included in the Thompson Scientific “Essential Science Indicators” (ESI) as one of the new hot papers.

In February 2006, the Journal of Physical Chemistry A & B announced that only 24 papers published since 2000 have had more than 100 citations. Four of these articles were authored by faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Joan F. Brennecke, Prashant V. Kamat, and Edward J. Maginn. Keating-Crawford Professor Brennecke had two papers in the list: “High-pressure Phase Behavior of Ionic Liquid/CO2 Systems” at No. 16 and “Solution Thermodynamics of Imidazolium-based Ionic Liquids and Water,” co-authored by Maginn, at No. 19. Professor Kamat’s “Photophysical, Photochemical, and Photocatalytic Aspects of Metal Nano-particles” was the fifth most cited article on the list. Professor Maginn’s “Solubilities and Thermodynamic Properties of Gases in the Ionic Liquid 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate,” co-authored by Brennecke, was No. 24.

Two papers authored by Danny Z. Chen, professor of computer science and engineering, were recognized for their impact. “Skew Voronoi Diagrams,” which was published in the June 1999 issue of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, and “Topological Peeling and Applications,” which was published in the April 2003 issue of the same journal, were cited as the first and sixth most accessed articles in publication’s history.

Martin Haenggi and Paulo Tabuada, assistant professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering, have been recognized for their publications. According to IEEE Xplore® Haenggi’s “Routing in Ad Hoc Networks: A Case for Long Hops” was ranked 52 among the top 100 documents accessed in November 2005. It initially appeared in the October 2005 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. ScienceDirect’s TOP 25 Hottest Articles cited Tabuada’s “Bisimulation Relations for Dynamical, Control, and Hybrid Systems” as the sixth most read paper in Theoretical Computer Science. It originally appeared in the September 1, 2005, issue of the journal.

In March 2006, a paper co-authored by J. Nicholas Laneman and titled “Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Efficient Protocols and Outage Behavior” was featured as one of the “New Hot Papers” on the Thompson Essential Science Indicators special topics list, which covers current and emerging trends in various areas of research. The paper suggests that in wireless communication systems with limited bandwidth or mobility, it may be beneficial to relay signals for and from other devices. Laneman, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, authored the paper with Professor David Tse (University of California at Berkeley) and Gregory W. Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It was originally published in the December 2004 issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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