Ranked by in-field PageRank — how central a professor is in this subfield's co-authorship network. Compare against h-index to spot influential researchers that citation counts alone would miss.
| # | Professor | Institution | PageRank | h-index | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kerry Bloom | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 0.0503 | 66 | 379 |
| 2 | Paul S. Maddox | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 0.0485 | 50 | 158 |
| 3 | Barbara Robbertse | National Institutes of Health | 0.0364 | 27 | 62 |
| 4 | Samuel F. Bakhoum | Dartmouth College | 0.0364 | 44 | 136 |
| 5 | Edward D. Salmon | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 0.0357 | 94 | 239 |
| 6 | Arshad Desai | University of California San Diego | 0.0340 | 82 | 245 |
| 7 | Michael A. Lampson | University of the Arts | 0.0308 | 52 | 142 |
| 8 | Jennifer G. DeLuca | Colorado State University | 0.0298 | 40 | 143 |
| 9 | Conrad L. Schoch | National Institutes of Health | 0.0285 | 63 | 130 |
| 10 | Kurt LaButti | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0276 | 59 | 266 |