Eberly Science Research Rankings
$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.
Carefully allocated heat allows 3D printing with different kinds of polymers
Lab Bench to Commercialization
Two faculty members will receive $75,000 each toward commercializing intellectual property.
51% in top 10% of journals
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/
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
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
Topological photonics
PSU Authors: Mikael Rechtsman
Reviews of Modern Physics
881 Citations
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.015006
Carbon science in 2016: Status, challenges and perspectives
Carbon
176 Citations
PSU Authors: Mauricio Terrones
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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
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
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/
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