Seventeen UPEI 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’s most influential and top-cited scientists (top 2%), offering a comprehensive view of academic impact across disciplines. The Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% of Scientists List—which includes 17 UPEI researchers—provides 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.

“Congratulations to my colleagues for their achievements and commitment to research,” said Dr. Wendy Rodgers, UPEI President and Vice-Chancellor. “Seeing this number of UPEI 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.”

The publicly accessible database 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’s 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 “index c-score” (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.  

UPEI’s 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)

Single Year (13)

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