Professor Rappaport is listed among “Highly-Cited”

Professor Theodore Rappaport, Director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group, ECE faculty member, as well as the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has been included among the most highly cited researchers in his field, according to the Institute for Scientific Information.

Researchers on the ISI Highly Cited list are recognized for total citations of papers indexed and must rank among the 250 most cited in the world from 1984-2003. The list can be found at www.isihighlycited.com.

“It is gratifying to know,” said Rappaport, “that my students and I have been able to help build the knowledge base for today's wireless industry. Even more exciting is the fact that as we learn more about wireless, the advances of semiconductor and computer technologies promise to enable truly ubiquitous, massively broadband tetherless connections.”

As the ISI Highly Cited website explains, “Citation is a direct measure of influence on the literature of a subject, and it is also a strong indicator of scientific contribution, since it is derived from pattern of interaction among millions of published articles. When one researcher cites another’s work, he/she is acknowledging the relevance of that work to the current study. The interaction is both highly specific, and highly informed; it is a statement by an author of the scholarly relatedness of two works.”