Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
According to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, Duke has 31 scientists among the over 7,000 authors on the global list, including Neurobiology training faculty member Ru-Rong Ji. This means their work is among the top 1 percent of citations by scientific field and year. Ji was first named to this list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2018 and he has been included in it every single year since. This year marks his eighth time to be listed among this very select group.