Matthew Sullivan has been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from Clarivate.

The list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index. Fewer than 6,700, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers across multiple fields earned this exclusive distinction in 2021.

Matthew Sullivan

Professor, Department of Microbiology

Sullivan maps viruses throughout the global oceans, and the approaches he has developed help researchers understand how viruses impact ocean biogeochemistry, climate change microbiology in soils and various disease states in humans. He is the founding director of Ohio State’s Center of Microbiome Science, co-director of the Genetic Diversity and Adaption team of the National Science Foundation-funded EMERGE Biology Integration Institute, and co-director of the Microbial Communities Program at Ohio State’s Infectious Diseases Institute.