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 | Simon Roux | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0517 | 77 | 389 |
| 2 | Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0364 | 56 | 210 |
| 3 | Jizhong Zhou | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0339 | 152 | 1048 |
| 4 | Matthew B. Sullivan | The Ohio State University | 0.0288 | 98 | 346 |
| 5 | Frederik Schulz | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0243 | 44 | 161 |
| 6 | Daliang Ning | State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control | 0.0217 | 46 | 140 |
| 7 | Jillian F. Banfield | Planetary Science Institute | 0.0198 | 154 | 930 |
| 8 | David Páez-Espino | Regione Siciliana | 0.0198 | 40 | 90 |
| 9 | Brian P. Hedlund | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | 0.0186 | 55 | 306 |
| 10 | Brett J. Baker | The University of Texas at Austin | 0.0183 | 57 | 191 |