Jin Wen poses next to a "We Are" sign for her department head announcement. Credit: College of Engineering Flickr/Penn State
Jin Wen named a 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS
June 4, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jin Wen, the incoming head of the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State, has been named a ScholarGPS — a recognition awarded to the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide for excellence in research productivity, impact and quality.
The global honor is based on comprehensive analysis across over 30 million scholar profiles and 200 million publications. ScholarGPS ranks researchers using advanced data science methodologies, including AI and machine learning, to evaluate lifetime and five-year academic performance across more than 350,000 specialties.
Wen earned Top Scholar – Lifetime distinctions in three areas:
#25 in Building Energy
#611 in Environment (systems)
#4,146 in Energy
ScholarGPS evaluates and ranks scholars across 14 broad fields, 177 disciplines and hundreds of thousands of specialties. In addition to individual rankings, the platform highlights leading institutions and identifies subject matter experts based on publication volume, citation counts and h-index performance.
These rankings place Wen among the most influential scholars in engineering and environmental systems, recognizing sustained contributions to research in energy efficiency, environmental systems and sustainable infrastructure.
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