The Most Highly Cited Black Mathematicians in 2004
Analyzing the database of the Institute of Scientific Information in Philadelphia, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education conducted a citation analysis of a group of 96 black scholars who teach mathematics at American colleges and universities. Here are the three black mathematicians JBHE identified as having the most academic citations in academic journals during the calendar year 2004:
Clifford V. Johnson, professor of physics at the University of Southern California, leads our rankings of the most highly cited black mathematicians. Professor Johnson is a theoretical physicist who works mainly with string theory, quantum gravity, gauge theory, and M-theory. He used mathematical tools to study objects such as black holes. Professor Johnson, who was cited 65 times in academic journals in 2004, is a graduate of Imperial College, London University, and holds a Ph.D. from Southampton University.
William A. Massey is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. A native of Jefferson City, Missouri, Massey is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University. For more than 20 years he was a top engineer at Bell Laboratories before coming to Princeton in 2001. Dr. Massey has published more than 50 academic papers on applied probability analysis. He was cited 59 times in academic journals in 2004.
Emery
N. Brown, a mathematical biologist,
is director of the Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory
at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also serves as
an associate professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
His research is in the area of neural information coding, which
uses mathematical techniques to decipher how neurons receive and
transmit information. Dr. Brown is a Harvard man to the core.
He is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College. He holds
a master's and Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard and is also a
graduate of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brown is widely published
in academic journals. In academic journals, he was cited 45 times
by his peers in 2004, placing him third in the JBHE rankings.
from The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
http://www.jbhe.com/latest/092205_blackmathematicians.html
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