Five faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences have been recognized among the world's most influential researchers in the 2024 Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List. This prestigious ranking identifies scientists and social
scientists whose work is among the most cited globally, reflecting their profound impact on their respective fields.Compiled by Stanford University, in partnership with Elsevier and SciTech Strategies, the annual list ranks scholars based on citation impact using Scopus, a leading research database. Developed in 2020 by Stanford researcher John P.A. Ioannidis and his team, the list has become a benchmark for scholarly influence, used by universities, research institutions, and funding agencies worldwide.
The recognition underscores the College of Arts and Sciences’ commitment to cutting-edge research and academic leadership. Faculty members included in this year’s ranking contribute groundbreaking work across multiple disciplines, reinforcing the university’s standing in the global research community.
Kim M. Blankenship
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology
Professor Blankenship is the Founding Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society; CAS Associate Dean of Research; and Co-Director of the Developmental Core of the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research. Her research focuses on the social determination of health inequities and structural interventions to address them. Most recently she was PI on a National Institute of Mental Health-funded project focusing on the intersecting impacts of mass incarceration, housing vulnerability, and housing policies.
Robert A. Blecker
Professor of Economics
Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategies in developing countries, and U.S. trade policy. His teaching fields include international economics, macroeconomics, history of economic thought, and political economy.
David C. Culver
Environmental Science Adjunct in Residence
Professor Culver, the author or editor of five books and more than 100 articles, has studied many aspects of the biology of subterranean animals, especially cave animals. His field sites range from seeps in the George Washington Memorial Parkway to the caves of Slovenia. His most recent book, written with Tanja Pipan, is Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats, published by Oxford University Press.
Gregory Harry
Professor of Physics
Professor Harry works to detect gravitational waves from supernovas, neutron stars, pulsars, and possibly the Big Bang. In this way, he is testing Einstein’s theory of gravity against Newton’s. An astrophysicist by trade, Harry works on the National Science Foundation–funded Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). As part of the international collaboration, Harry’s central research has been to reduce thermal noise disruptions in the optics of the three, 4 km long interferometers that measure oscillations — warped space caused by gravitational waves — between mirrors at either end. At AU, Harry runs experimental labs for advanced physics students.
Nathalie Japkowicz
Professor of Computer Science
Professor Nathalie Japkowicz previously led the Laboratory for Research on Machine Learning for Defense and Security at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. Over the years, her research has received funding from Canadian Federal and Provincial institutions (NSERC, DRDC, Health Canada, OCE, MITACS CITO). She has worked with many private companies and published more than 100 articles, papers and books including Evaluating Learning Algorithms: A Classification Perspective, with Mohak Shah (Cambridge University Press 2011) and Big Data Analysis: New Algorithms for a New Society (Springer 2016). Most recently she published Machine Learning Evaluation: Towards Reliable and Responsible AI with Zois Boukouvalas (Cambridge University Press 2024).
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