18 Florida Tech Faculty Named Among Top 2% of Scientists in Updated 2025 Ranking
List Maintained by Stanford University Utilizes Citations for Faculty Inclusion
MELBOURNE, FLA. — A list updated in September that ranks scientists around the world based on career or single-year standardized academic citations of their work includes 18 current and former Florida Tech faculty members.
The “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” is maintained by Stanford University. The August 2025 version of the list features 236,000 scientists rated for either career-long and single-year impact, or both, using citations received during the 2024 calendar year.
The lists examine 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.
Here are the included Florida Tech faculty:
Career (14):
- Richard Aronson, marine biology and hydrobiology
- Mark Bush, paleontology
- Philip Chan, artificial intelligence and image processing
- Martin Glicksman (emeritus), materials
- Michael Grieves, industrial engineering and automation
- Md Selim Habib, optoelectronics and photonics
- Pei-feng Hsu, mechanical engineering and transports
- John Z. Kiss, plant biology and botany
- V. Lakshmikantham (emeritus), applied mathematics
- Mirmilad Mirsayar, mechanical engineering and transports
- Kanishka Perera, general mathematics
- Toufiq Reza, energy
- Robert van Woesik, marine biology and hydrobiology
- Rudolf Wehmschulte, inorganic and nuclear chemistry
Single year (13):
Career faculty Aronson, Bush, Glicksman, Grieves, Habib, Lakshmikantham, Mirsayarm, Reza and van Woesik also received single-year recognition. Additional designees are:
- Yi Liao, optoelectronics and photonics
- Roberto Peverati, chemical physics
- Alexander Schoedel, organic chemistry
- Steven Shaw, acoustics
Lakshmikantham has passed away. Grieves and Schoedel are no longer at Florida Tech.
