Recently, Stanford University released the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 list. The ranking is divided into two categories: the “career-long impact” list, which evaluates a scholar’s academic impact over the course of their entire career to date, and the “single recent year impact” list, which focuses on academic achievements in the most recent year. A total of 22 scholars from the University were included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists — “career-long impact” list, while 46 scholars were selected for the “single recent year impact” list. The number of scholars recognized as top scientists accounts for 6.13% of the University’s full-time faculty.

Top 2% Scientists - Career-Long Impact

Top 2% Scientists — Single Recent Year Impact

The World’s Top 2% Scientists list is jointly developed by Elsevier and the research team led by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis at Stanford University. The database is publicly available on Mendeley Data, a data repository operated by Elsevier. The ranking is based on citation data from Scopus and is generated through systematic analysis using six key citation indicators: total citations, Hirsch h-index, co-authorship adjusted Schreiber Hm-index, citations to single-authored papers, citations to papers where the scientist is single or first author, and citations to papers where the scientist is single, first, or last author. Covering 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, the database provides a metric for assessing scientists’ long-term research performance and offers a more objective and comprehensive reflection of their scientific impact.