Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are selected based on the Hirsch index, also known as the H-index, which represents the number of research papers a faculty member has published, and the papers’ impact as determined by how many times they have been cited by other scientists and scholars in subsequent research articles.
For example, a researcher with an H-index of 50 has published at least 50 articles that each have been cited at least 50 times. An H-index increases as multiple papers are cited multiple times. The H-index calculations for the Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are based on research abstract and citation data from Scopus. Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are faculty who have achieved H-index scores of 100 or higher (“gold” level) and 50 or higher (“silver” level).
The following faculty achieved Impact Scholar distinction during the 2021 calendar year:
Gold Level
- Edwin Stone, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, director of the UI Institute for Vision Research, and the Seamans-Hauser Chair in Molecular Ophthalmology
- Daniel Tranel, MD, associate dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies in the Carver College of Medicine and professor in the Department of Neurology
Silver Level:
- Frederick Domann, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology
- Randy Kardon, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and the Pomerantz Family Chair in Ophthalmology
- Arnold Menezes, MD, professor in the Department of Neurosurgery
- David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, professor in the Department of Pathology and director of the department’s comparative pathology division
- Delwyn Miller, MD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry
- Laura Ponto, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiology
- Brian Wolf, MD, MS, professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, medical director of UI Sports Medicine, and the John and Kim Callaghan Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine