Engineer joins ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ list

Dominic Di Toro, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

3:47 p.m., Sept. 24, 2003--Dominic Di Toro, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, recently joined five other University of Delaware faculty members designated as Highly Cited Researchers by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).

The basic mission of ISI as a database publishing company is to provide comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential research.

In addition to Di Toro, the UD group includes Jack Baroudi, associate dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics; John Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor in the College of Marine Studies; Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Professor in the College of Engineering; David Mason, professor of statistics in the Department of Food and Resource Economics in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; and Donald L. Sparks, S. Hallock du Pont Chair and chairperson of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Di Toro is regarded as a pioneer in the field of water quality modeling, and his research involves the development and application of mathematical and statistical analyses to stream, lake, estuarine and coastal water quality and sediment problems.

His book, “Sediment Flux Modeling,” has been called the definitive text on the subject.

Di Toro joined the UD faculty in January. He had been the Donald O’Connor Professor of Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College in New York City.

The six UD professors are among a very exclusive group comprising less than one-half of 1 percent of all publishing researchers.

In compiling the list, ISI analyzed some 19 million articles to determine the most highly cited researchers in 21 broad categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. Researchers are selected for inclusion based on the total number of citations received by their articles within a given category.

The online database, [ISIHighlyCited.com], enables researchers from throughout the world to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades.

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