Zheng-Hua Ye and Ruiqin Zhong, respectively a professor and research professional in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ plant biology department, were named among the world’s highly cited researchers for 2014 by Thomson Reuters.
The list includes more than 3,000 authors worldwide in 21 science and social science fields. They represent the top 1 percent of researchers most cited in their specialty areas from 2002 to 2012.