Selengut Makes List of Highly Cited Researchers

Jeremy Selengut, an associate research scientist in UMIACS working in the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, is included on Thomson Reuter’s 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers, a compilation of influential names in science.

Approximately 3,000 researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers—ranking among the top one percent that are most cited for their subject field and year of publication.

Selengut’s research focuses on bioinformatics, including developing hidden Markov models for proteins, particularly as they relate to bacterial and archaeal subsystems.

He is leading the web interface, data coordination, and database design and management efforts of the University of Maryland/Battelle Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, one of 14 nationwide centers established by the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to conduct research relevant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

The 2015 Highly Cited Researcher list incorporates all feedback received between Sept. 8, 2015 and Dec. 1, 2015.

See the full list here.