Turner College’s James, Leonce Ranked Among Most Highly-Cited Scholars in Intelligent Manufacturing

New research from the UK-China Joint Intelligent Center of Special Equipment and Robotics has named the most productive scholars in the field of intelligent manufacturing during 2021.  The authors of the project indicate that their ranking methodology uses the international general selection method to identify the 1,000 highly cited scholars with the most global influence in the field from citations data found in Emerald Publishing’s database.  The 2021 ranking appears in the latest issue of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment, and it indicates that Mark James, an associate professor of management, and Tesa Leonce, an associate professor of economics, are ranked 893^rd and 895^th, respectively.  At the top of the ranking is Bilal Alhayani of Yildiz Technical University (Turkey), while the highest-ranked U.S.-based scholar is Hoejin Kim of the University of Texas – El Paso, who is ranked third overall.  James and Leonce rank close behind John Gorman, at 890^th, from the University of Minnesota, and ahead of A.M.M. Ahsan, at 919^th, from North Dakota State University.  Lastly, both James and Leonce rank ahead of scholars from the University of Oklahoma, University of Colorado, Fresno State University, Penn State University and Southern Methodist University.