Recently, Stanford University has released the World’s Top 2% Scientists list for 2024. The data is divided into two parts: “career-long impact ranking” and “single-year impact ranking”.

Six scholars from WMU, namely Li Xiaokun, Liu Dehui, Chen Jiangfan, Qu Jia, Ge Renshan, and Higuchi Akon, were featured as the world’s top 2% scientists based on their career-long impact and forty-eight scholars, including Li Xiaokun, Shen Xian, Moosa Mohammadi, Qu Jia, Zhao Yingzheng, Li Xingyi, Wu Aimin, Huang Shengbin, and Zhang Lifang, were named for their single-year impact. With a four-person increase from the previous year’s list and six scholars entering both rankings, WMU has showed its growing international reputation and its escalating influence within the academic community.

▲ WMU scholars named in the world’s top 2% scientists 

“career-long impact” list (sorted by disciplines)

This list was compiled by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis’s team at Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier, using data from Scopus. According to a comprehensive database including information such as citations (with and without self-citations), h-index, hm-index, a composite indicator (c-score), the list recognized the world’s top 2% scientist from nearly 7 million researchers, who are classified into 22 fields and 176 sub-fields. The list provides an objective and reliable reflection of the academic impact of scientists. A total of 223,153 scholars around the world were included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024.

Text translated by Wang Feitao and reviewed by Sun You.