"respected professors" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used as a noun phrase to refer to a group of professors who are highly regarded and esteemed for their knowledge and expertise in a particular field. Example: "The university's panel of respected professors presented groundbreaking research at the conference."
You'll learn the subject matter in both English and Mandarin from some of academia's most respected professors.
The week before his arrest, on May 5th, Masari and a group of some half-dozen highly respected professors, lawyers, and judges of impeccably orthodox Islamic credentials publicly unveiled the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights.
Written by three highly respected professors of social work, Brid Featherstone, Sue White and Kate Morris, it questions the current often punitive ethos of social work and the child protection culture.
Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right.
You might think: "I want them to see how many respected professors have said that they're willing to write references for me".
The teenager, Robert W. Tulloch of Chelsea, Vt., was one of two youths charged this year with the murders of Half and Susanne Zantop, two popular and respected professors at Dartmouth, in Hanover, N.H.
A loved and respected professor of French at Baruch College since 1989.
She taught at the Godmothers League Schooll, Bank Street College and became a highly respected professor at Brooklyn College's School of Education.
What seizes Joseph Skizzen (who will, under false colors, become Professor Skizzen, Whittlebauer College's published and respected professor of music), what claws at his brain, are the pullulations of all the world's evils.
Eban started as a brilliant scholar and would probably have been happy to spend his life as a highly respected professor writing books, a figure like Sir Isaiah Berlin, probably staying in Cambridge.
Faurisson's publisher drew up a petition arguing that the university should protect his right to free speech; the petition, which called Faurisson a "respected" professor and referred to his statements on the Holocaust as "findings," was published in several French newspapers and bore Chomsky's name as one of its signers.
