CICS Researchers Recognized in Research.com's 2024 Lists of Top Scientists
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Three Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) faculty members have been named among the nation’s top 80 Best Computer Science Scientists, according to the latest edition of Research.com’s Best Scientists by Discipline rankings. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Bruce Croft and Distinguished Professors Andrew McCallum and Donald Towsley join a list of nine UMass Amherst faculty acknowledged as the top 100 researchers and scholars in their fields.
Based on its scientific rankings methodology, Research.com ranks scientists in various fields using multiple bibliometric data sources, among other metrics collected in November 2023 for the 2024 edition. Thousands of researchers are analyzed and ranked based on the Discipline H-index (D-index) metric, which includes papers and citation values, contributions made within their discipline, and awards and achievements.
Towsley, whose wide-ranging research ranges from quantum and classical networking and secure communications to distributed learning and inference, ranks No. 24 in the U.S. and No. 38 in the world. Croft, a former dean and former director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, ranks No. 63 in the U.S. and No. 99 in the world; and Andrew McCallum, director of the Center for Data Science, ranks No. 80 in the U.S. and 119 in the world.
Adapted from a story originally published by the UMass Amherst Office of News & Media Relations.
