Dominic M. 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.
The designation places Di Toro among a very exclusive group comprising less than one half of one 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 on-line 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.
Di Toro, who joined the University of Delaware in January of 2003, is regarded as a pioneer in the field of water quality modeling. The author or co-author of more than 60 articles in the peer-reviewed literature, he has specialized in the development and application of mathematical and statistical analyses to stream, lake, estuarine, and coastal water quality and sediment problems. Di Toro's book, Sediment Flux Modeling (2001, John Wiley & Sons) has been referred to as "the definitive text on this subject and deserv[ing of] a place in any respectable environmental library." Another reviewer describes the book as "masterfully done."
The other Highly Cited Researchers at UD are Jack Baroudi, Associate Dean, College of Business and Economics; John Boyer, E.I. du Pont Professor, College of Marine Studies; Tsu-Wei Chou, Pierre S. du Pont Professor, College of Engineering; David Mason, Professor of Food and Resource Economics; and Donald Sparks, Chair of the Department of Plant and Soil Science.
***** by Diane Kukich