Research

Eberly Science Research Rankings

Research publications output by subject.
Publications by subject

$122,588,000 in research expenditures (2nd highest college)

Research Statistics

130 inventions disclosed since 2015 (21/year on avg)

68 projects funded by industry since 2015

23 Patents Awarded since 2015

8 active startups

Over 350 Researchers (355 counted by Scival)

23% of publications in top 10% of most cited worldwide

Research Publications

2nd in publications of all PSU colleges.

Avg of 1300 publications/year and 30 citations/publication since 2015 (1293 in 2019 and 7,981 from 2015-2020).

2.4 Avg. Field-Weighted Citation Impact

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bio-Tech Cluster

Undergrads in this minor leave Penn State with the practical knowledge and skills employers look for.

Beatrice Sirakaya featured image for the Winter 2021 issue of the Science Journal.

Carefully allocated heat allows 3D printing with different kinds of polymers

Ben Lear and his lab shine lasers on nanoparticles, which absorb the light and convert it to heat. The heat that diffuses out of the particle can then be used to drive a chemical reaction. Credit: Ben Lear

Lab Bench to Commercialization

Two faculty members will receive $75,000 each toward commercializing intellectual property.

Life Sciences Bridge at the University Park campus during the spring.

51% in top 10% of journals

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Publications in top ten percent most cited worldwide.
23% or our publications in top 10 percent most cited journals worldwide. Elsevier.
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Publications in the top ten percent of journals.
 51% of our publications in the top 10 percent of journals. Elsevier.
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Publications with co-authored researchers in other countries.
57% of our publications with co-authored researchers in other countries. Elsevier.
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Publications with both academic and corporate affiliations.
4% of our publications with both academic and corporate affiliations. Elsevier.

Publications that fall within the top 10% of cited publications worldwide​

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary neutron Star Merger
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
1613 Citations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9

 

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
1005 Citations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305228926_The_clustering_of_galaxies_in_the_completed_SDSS-III_Baryon_Oscillation_Spectroscopic_Survey_Cosmological_analysis_of_the_DR12_galaxy_sample

 

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe​
The Astronomical Journal​
595 Citations​
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa7567

The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2016 update​
Nucleic Acids Research​
ECOS Authors: Anton Nekrutenko​
1028 Citations​
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27137889/​

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Gut microbiota and intestinal benefits of metformin​
Nature medicine​
223 Citations​
PSU Authors: Robert Nichols, Jingwei Cai, Bipin Rimal, Andrew Patterson​
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0222-4​

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Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Enzymes in Human Health and Disease​
Annual Review of Biochemistry​
ECOS Authors: Squire Booker​
119 Citations​
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27145839/​

Systematic Revision of Symbiodiniaceae Highlights the Antiquity and Diversity of Coral Endosymbionts​
Current Biology​
ECOS Authors: Todd LaJeunesse​
538 Citations​
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30100341/​

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One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants​
Nature​
326 Citations​
PSU Authors: Claude W. dePamphilis, Paula Ralph, Eric Wafula​
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1693-2#author-information​

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Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic​
Nature Microbiology​
247 Citations​
PSU Authors: Maciej Boni​
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4​

Reversible aqueous zinc/manganese storage from conversion reations​
Nature Energy​
1103 Citations​
ECOS Authors: Karl T. Mueller​
https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201639#Abs1

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Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Metal Phosphide Catalysts for Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction​
PSU Authors: Raymond Schaak, Juan Callejas, Carlos Read​
American Chemical Society​
361 Citations​
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02148​

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Beyond the Hofmeister Series: Ion-Specific Effects on Proteins and Their Biological Functions​
Journal of Physical Chemistry​
ECOS Authors: Paul Cremer, Halil Okur, Kelvin Rembert​
265 Citations​
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10797​

Exceptionally High Piezoelectric Coefficient and Low Strain Hysteresis in Grain-Oriented (Ba, Ca)(Ti, Zr)O3 through Intergrating Crystallographic Texture and Domain Engineering​
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces​
ECOS Authors: Wenwu Cao​
97 Citations​
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.7b08160​

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Stability and Monotonicity for Some Discretizations of the Biot's Model​
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering​
ECOS Authors: Ludmil Zikatanov​
54 Citations​
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07150​

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Variable Bandwidth Diffusion Kernels​
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis​
ECOS Authors: John Harlim​
49 Citations​
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263281004_Variable_Bandwidth_Diffusion_Kernels​

Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger​
PSU Authors: S.J. Chamberlin, R. Everett, L.S. Finn, C. Hanna, A. Idrisy, D. Meacher, C. Messick​
Physical Review Letter​
6294 Citations​
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102​

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Topological photonics​
PSU Authors: Mikael Rechtsman​
Reviews of Modern Physics​
881 Citations​
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.015006​

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Carbon science in 2016: Status, challenges and perspectives​
Carbon​
176 Citations​
PSU Authors: Mauricio Terrones​
scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955300158&origin=inward&txGid=cddfebe25ae40599d05744506dc6e1dc​

The ASA Statement on p-values: Context, Process, and Purpose​
The American Statistician​
ECOS Authors: Nicole A. Lazar​
2403 Citaitons​
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108#.YUNYb51KguW​

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Balancing Covariates via Propensity Score Weighting​
Journal of the American Statistical Association​
ECOS Authors: Kari Lock Morgan​
156 Citations​
https://www.researchgate.net/publication308646210_Balancing_Covariates_via_Propensity_Score_Weighting​

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HiCRep: assessing the reproducibility of Hi-C data using a stratum-adjusted correlation coefficient​
Genome Research​
ECOS Authors: Qunhua Li, Tao Yang, Feipeng Zhang, Fan Song, Ross C Hardison, Feng Yue​
110 Citations​
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28855260/​

The armillary sphere sculpture at Old Main on the University Park campus.

Funding for Research

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