Nicholas School’s Rob Jackson Named One of the World’s Most “Highly Cited” Scientists

Jackson joins Stuart Pimm and William Schlesinger on ISI’s new list of the most influential scientists and scholars

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004/DURHAM, N.C. – Robert B. Jackson, professor of environmental sciences and biology, has been named one the world’s most highly cited researchers by the international research database “ISI Highly Cited.”

Inclusion on the list is based on authorship of papers considered by peers to be among the most important scientific developments of the last two decades. Only the most widely cited authors – less than half of one percent of all publishing researchers – earned recognition. Citation is a direct measure of a researcher’s influence on the literature of a subject, and it is also a strong indicator of scientific contribution, since it is derived from pattern of interaction among millions of published articles.

Jackson hold joint appointments at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Duke’s Department of Biology.

He joins two other Nicholas School faculty members previously named to the ISI list: Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, and William H. Schlesinger, James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and dean of the Nicholas School.

Twenty-two members of the Duke faculty are now included on the list, which is accessible online at http://isihighlycited.com.

Jackson studies ecosystem functioning and feedbacks between global change and the biosphere. His recent publications include articles in Science, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other top journals.

Media Contact: Tim Lucas at 919-613-8084 or tdlucas@duke.edu