Most Cited Biomedical Research Papers: 2007-2011

The end of the year always brings lists of top accomplishments. In that spirit, below is an analysis of the most highly cited papers by Oakland University biomedical researchers. Rather than considering papers published only in 2011, all papers published in the last five years are analyzed: 2007-2011. Data is taken from the Web of Science, as of December 30, 2011. Only papers with Oakland University listed among the institutions of the authors are found by the search (so, for instance, if a young faculty member arrived in 2010, her highly cited 2008 paper published at her previous institution would not be included). And the winner is:

Shen ZH, Huang MC, Xiao CD, Zhang Y, and Zeng XQ, 2007, Nonlabeled Quartz Crystal Microbalance Biosensor for Bacterial Detection Using Carbohydrate and Lectin Recognitions, Analytical Chemistry, Volume 79, Pages 2312-2319.

The paper has accumulated 70 citations in just five years, or an average of 14 per year. Congratulations to lead author Zhihong Shen, a graduate of the Biomedical Sciences: Health and Environmental Chemistry PhD Program, and her advisor, Professor and CBR member Xiangqun Zeng, of the Department of Chemistry.

To be fair to OU’s non-biomedical researchers, note that by far the most highly cited paper published in the last five years is Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites: Historical Perspective, Status, and Future Directions (Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 103, Article 031101), coauthored by Distinguished Professor Gopal Srinivasan of the Department of Physics. This paper has an astounding 478 citations since its publication in 2008. Runner-up goes to Professor Ken Elder’s 2007 paper Phase-Field Crystal Modeling and Classical Density Functional Theory of Freezing, with 87 citations.

Following Shen’s paper, the next eight most highly cited biomedical papers published between 2007 and 2011 are all coauthored by Distinguished Professor Michael Chopp, of the Department of Physics. Chopp, who has an h-index of 84, is probably the most highly cited researcher at Oakland University. Top among these papers is Therapeutic Benefit of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Administered 1 Month After Stroke, which appeared in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (Volume 27, Pages 6-13, 2007), with 67 citations.