Citations & compensation
This groups teaching faculty by lifetime citations (from OpenAlex) and shows each group’s median peak salary — one visible correlate of pay, alongside grants.
| Lifetime citations | Georgia Tech | UGA | Georgia State | Kennesaw State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No matched output | $73,000n=1523 | $55,532n=3499 | $15,540n=5847 | $19,989n=4552 |
| Under 100 | $115,076n=191 | $100,819n=438 | $78,037n=425 | $94,527n=367 |
| 100–1K | $151,296n=298 | $126,288n=587 | $107,524n=372 | $114,072n=342 |
| 1K–10K | $181,737n=616 | $144,304n=836 | $148,781n=329 | $131,334n=130 |
| 10K+ | $255,137n=188 | $204,895n=114 | $216,395n=37 | n<10 |
Most-cited matched researchers
The 25 matched faculty with the highest h-index, with salary and federal grants. Ranked by a raw, field-unadjusted citation measure — high-citation-density fields dominate any such list, so this is not a cross-field ranking of scholarly standing.
| Person | Institution | h-index | Citations | Works | Grants | Peak salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Younan Xia | Georgia Tech | 231 | 206K | 1.2K | $7M | $311,514 |
| Kai Wang | Georgia Tech | 173 | 221K | 7.2K | $300K | $178,367 |
| Meilin Liu | Georgia Tech | 156 | 87K | 1.2K | $435.6K | $383,363 |
| Vince D Calhoun | Georgia State | 150 | 110K | 2.3K | $28.8M | $547,485 |
| Antonio Facchetti | Georgia Tech | 134 | 72K | 787 | $469K | $270,167 |
| Henry F Schaefer | UGA | 128 | 91K | 2.1K | — | $448,987 |
| Andrew H Paterson | UGA | 127 | 72K | 646 | — | $317,993 |
| Rodney Weber | Georgia Tech | 127 | 48K | 609 | $1.6M | $211,992 |
| Gerald Hart | UGA | 126 | 50K | 536 | $3.6M | $288,228 |
| William J Koros | Georgia Tech | 123 | 52K | 571 | — | $352,625 |
| John A Miller | UGA | 116 | 58K | 1.1K | — | $163,910 |
| Leann Birch | UGA | 116 | 51K | 338 | $682.3K | $266,644 |
| Laura Cadonati | Georgia Tech | 111 | 79K | 435 | $2.1M | $299,389 |
| John Reynolds | Georgia Tech | 110 | 58K | 714 | — | $315,220 |
| Nam Jong Kim | Georgia Tech | 109 | 46K | 738 | — | $120,000 |
| John Crittenden | Georgia Tech | 109 | 41K | 645 | — | $368,928 |
| Mark Prausnitz | Georgia Tech | 106 | 48K | 445 | $753.1K | $320,797 |
| Mandev Singh Gill | UGA | 105 | 111K | 705 | — | $152,997 |
| Gene H Brody | UGA | 103 | 34K | 517 | $20M | $139,684 |
| Uzi Landman | Georgia Tech | 102 | 40K | 682 | — | $397,626 |
| Christopher Jones | Georgia Tech | 101 | 36K | 715 | $12.2M | $337,400 |
| Jeffrey Lynn Bennetzen | UGA | 100 | 48K | 333 | — | $344,385 |
| Yong Ding | Georgia Tech | 100 | 40K | 353 | $850K | $118,624 |
| Ronald L Simons | UGA | 100 | 34K | 353 | $8.3M | $307,707 |
| W K Campbell | UGA | 98 | 41K | 332 | — | $214,296 |
Research profiles come from OpenAlex, matched to a person by name (faculty-restricted, precision-first) — the single best-scoring author is kept. Metrics are indicative: OpenAlex disambiguation can merge authors who share a common name (inflating a few profiles), and h-index / citation counts are all-time, not windowed. Coverage skews toward research-active faculty; teaching-only instructors often have no matched profile (the “none” bucket). See ADR-014.