Mietek Jaroniec, Professor, Kent Campus, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, joining Kent State in 1991. His expertise and research are focused on adsorption, interfacial chemistry and chemistry of materials with ordered and disordered nanoporosity. He has been author or co-author on over 1,200 refereed publications, exceeding 111,000 citations in his lifetime.
Since 2016, when Jaroniec received his first President’s Faculty Excellence Award, he has published nearly 150 peer-refereed papers. This is an average of over 21 papers per year. In each year from 2017 to 2021, Jaroniec was listed among the most-highly cited researchers (top 1%) in two disciplines: chemistry and materials science. In 2019 he was recognized in the top 2% cited scientists in the world based on a study published by Stanford University scholars. More than half of his lifetime citations have occurred since 2016. All of his citations are reflected in his stunning H-index of 143. That is, he has at least 143 papers that have at least 143 citations, which is extraordinarily high.
In 2018 he received an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from Poznan University of Technology (Poland) and in 2019 he received the Darsh Wasan Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Award for outstanding contributions within surface and colloid chemistry.
