Thirty-nine UCLA faculty members, including UCLA Mathematics Professor Mason Porter, have been named among the world’s most influential scholars in the sciences and social sciences. The annual Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by international data and analytics firm Clarivate identifies scholars whose work has been cited most often in papers published by other researchers in their fields over the past 11 years. Those selected for this list have written multiple studies that rank among the top 1% of scholarly citations worldwide. 

Porter works in diverse topics — encompassing theory, computation, and applications — in networks, complex systems, and nonlinear systems. 2025 marks the fifth consecutive year this list has recognized Porter.

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