10-31-2025
A recent report by researchers at Stanford University and Elsevier places six current and one retired Mitch Daniels School of Business faculty among the top 2% of most influential scientists in the world for 2025.
The “World’s Top 2%” scientists list focuses on impact (citations) rather than productivity (number of publications) and uses Scopus data. In the description of its dataset, Elsevier, an academic publisher, notes that “citation metrics are widely used and misused” and that they and Stanford have “created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations” and additional indicators.
“This ranking is an example of the academic prowess on display at the Daniels School,” says Jim Bullard, Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean. “Our school has enjoyed a rich tradition of paving new frontiers in business research, which helps shape the future of our profession. It also allows faculty to provide students with the tools to unleash their full potential and become tomorrow’s business innovators and leaders.”
Daniels School faculty members in the latest ranking include:
- Mike Campion, Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Business, teaches in the Daniels School’s Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Department. Recent research looks at the use of AI in making hiring decisions — is algorithmic bias in hiring fact or myth? Campion is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the 2023 winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s lifetime professional contribution award, the Distinguished Professional Contribution Award.
- Joshua Chan, Olson Chair in Management, is a professor in the Economics Department whose research focuses on the development and application of Bayesian methods in macroeconometrics. His book “Statistical Modeling and Computation,” published in January, provides a unique introduction to modern statistics from both classical and Bayesian perspectives. Chan’s research focuses on building new high-dimensional time-series models for macroeconomic forecasting, especially “nowcasting” U.S. GDP.
- Mara Faccio, Tom and Patty Hefner Chair in Finance, researches international finance and corporate finance and has more than 31,000 Google Scholar citations. Faccio was named the no. 1 female scientist in academic finance in 2022 and ranked in the top 0.05% of finance scholars worldwide, based on impact by ScholarGPS. Her recent research focuses on political determinants of competition in the mobile telecommunication industry; exposing the revolving door in executive branch agencies; and impediments to the Schumpeterian process in the replacement of large firms.
- Allie Gabriel, Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management, is the faculty director of the Center for Working Well and the incoming senior editor for micro-research submissions at Journal of Management. She was recently named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Gabriel is an advocate for workplace mental health and well-being who researches how employees can thrive at work. Gabriel and her colleagues won the 2025 Sage Publications/Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award for their 2019 paper on experience sampling methods.
- David Hummels, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Dean Emeritus, teaches courses in International Economics and has won multiple teaching awards at the graduate and undergraduate level. He researches international trade, offshoring and its impact on labor markets, product differentiation, barriers to trade and the broader impacts of aviation, infrastructure and more. He and Purdue’s Jay Akridge co-author a popular Substack, Finding Equilibrium: Two Economists on Higher Ed’s Future. They draw upon more than a quarter-century of higher education leadership to provide research-informed, data-forward and solutions-oriented writing on higher education’s present and future.
- Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor Emerita of Management, is considered one of the top global experts on work/life issues and has won numerous awards for research, teaching and service excellence to advance gender equality, inclusion and organizational support for work-life flexibility. She is in the 2025-26 fellows class for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Kossek and her coauthors were finalists for the 2025 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research for their paper on advancing work-life support for the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots.’
- Jeff Reuer, Distinguished Professor and Blake Family Endowed Chair in the Strategic Management Department, uses organizational economics to investigate firms' external corporate development activities and growth strategies. He is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and was the recipient of that organization's first Emerging Scholar Award. Reuer is a founding editor-in-chief of the Strategic Management Review, which is bringing the voice of practice to strategic management research.
Scientists in the Stanford-Elsevier study are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields based on the standard Science-Metrix classification.
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