{"id":1413,"date":"2026-02-07T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:21:47","slug":"jed-fuhrman-2025-highly-ranked-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2026\/02\/jed-fuhrman-2025-highly-ranked-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jed Fuhrman"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Jed Fuhrman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1414\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/jed-fuhrman-600x338-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Jed Fuhrman\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/jed-fuhrman-600x338-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2026\/02\/jed-fuhrman-600x338-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jed-fuhrman\/\">Jed Fuhrman<\/a><\/strong>, McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology and professor of biological sciences, has been listed as a Highly Ranked Scholar for 2025 by <a href=\"https:\/\/scholargps.com\/scholars\/97907011746428\/jed-a-fuhrman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScholarGPS<\/a>. Fuhrman ranks No. 16 globally in microbial ecology, No. 76 in bacteria, No. 292 in biology and biological sciences, and No. 1,134 overall based on his accomplishments over the entirety of his career, putting him in the top 0.05% globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jed-fuhrman\/\"><strong>Jed Fuhrman<\/strong><\/a>, McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology and professor of biological sciences, has been listed as a Highly Ranked Scholar for 2025 by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholargps.com\/scholars\/74170478605665\/douglas-g-capone\"> ScholarGPS<\/a>. Fuhrman ranks No. 16 globally in microbial ecology, No. 76 in bacteria, No. 292 in biology and biological sciences, and No. 1,134 overall based on his accomplishments over the entirety of his career, putting him in the top 0.05% globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-natural-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jed Fuhrman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fuhrman ranks No. 16 globally based on his accomplishments over the entirety of his career, putting him in the top 0.05% globally\" \/>\n<meta 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