A new list issued by Stanford University reveals the world’s top 2% of most cited scientists across several fields. The 2021 Stanford list includes 18 academics within the University of Malta. When compared to 2020, there were only 11 Maltese individuals listed in the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world.
Based on bibliometric data from the Scopus database, this list is widely regarded as the most renowned of its kind. It is prepared by Prof. John PA Loannidis and his colleagues at Stanford University.
“We have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score).” says Prof. Loannidis.
Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (the c-score focuses on impact rather than productivity and it also incorporates information on co-authorship and author positions) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. The whole list of 200,409 top 2% most-cited scientists is included in the single year dataset available for download .
The University congratulates its academics who made it into this year’s list!
More information on the Stanford citation ranking database and its metrics can be found .
