Seventeen 91探花 researchers represented in prestigious Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% of Scientists list

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Elsevier, in collaboration with Stanford University, has unveiled its latest compilation of the world鈥檚 most influential and top-cited scientists (top 2%), offering a comprehensive view of academic impact across disciplines. The 鈥攚hich includes 17 91探花 researchers鈥攑rovides a nuanced picture of scholarly influence, measuring both career-long achievements and single-year impacts and is intended to address the misuse of citation metrics.

鈥淐ongratulations to my colleagues for their achievements and commitment to research,鈥 said Dr. Wendy Rodgers, 91探花 President and Vice-Chancellor. 鈥淪eeing this number of 91探花 scholars on this prestigious list is a source of pride as it reaffirms our identity as an institution that makes a positive impact on society through research and scholarly work.鈥

The was updated in August 2024 with information from Scopus, a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.  

The study鈥檚 methodology categorizes researchers into 22 broad fields and 174 sub-fields, with percentile rankings for those boasting at least five publications. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by the 鈥渋ndex c-score鈥 (a comprehensive gauge factoring in the total number of citations received for papers where the scientist is the single, first, or last author, emphasizing the impact of their published work) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.  

91探花鈥檚 17 researchers who are on the Top 2% of Scientists List in either the career- and single-year impact category (or both) include: 

Career (11)

  • Ian Gardner:
  • Greg Naterer:
  • Ian Dohoo:
  • Greg Keefe:
  • Robert Gilmour
  • Fred Kibenge:
  • Suzanne Kresta:
  • Mark Fast:
  • Gary Conboy:
  • David Speare:
  • Kevin Smith

Single Year (13)

  • Greg Naterer:
  • Khabat Khosravi
  • Travis Saunders:
  • Greg Keefe:
  • Ian Dohoo:
  • Ian Gardner:
  • Yulin Hu:
  • Fred Kibenge:
  • Aitazaz Farooque:
  • Mark Fast:
  • Gary Conboy:
  • Katy Proudfoot:
  • Jason Stull:

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