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 | 0.0470 | 77 | 389 |
| 2 | Jizhong Zhou | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0454 | 152 | 1048 |
| 3 | Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0393 | 56 | 210 |
| 4 | Jillian F. Banfield | Planetary Science Institute | 0.0314 | 154 | 930 |
| 5 | Daliang Ning | State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control | 0.0284 | 46 | 140 |
| 6 | Frederik Schulz | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0262 | 44 | 161 |
| 7 | Brett J. Baker | The University of Texas at Austin | 0.0239 | 57 | 191 |
| 8 | James M. Tiedje | North West Agriculture and Forestry University | 0.0239 | 171 | 775 |
| 9 | Susannah G. Tringe | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 0.0225 | 91 | 335 |
| 10 | David Páez-Espino | Regione Siciliana | 0.0224 | 40 | 90 |