Urban planning professor Michael Storper recently made Thomson Reuters’ list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2014.
The list was generated by analyzing data and determining which researchers have produced work that is most cited and acknowledged by peers. The 2014 list was determined by those who have published the highest-impact work during the past 11 years.
Storper, who teaches globalization, economic geography, and regional and international development at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, was recognized in the general Social Sciences category.
“I'm very happy that my publications are having an impact,” Storper said. "As a scholar, I believe that scientific research is the basis for understanding the world around us and how it may be improved."
Storper’s latest book, “Keys to the City,” examines economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political contexts that shape urban economic development. Currently, Storper is completing a five-year research project on the divergent economic development of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area economies since 1970, which is the subject of his next book.
