Thirty professors from the Department of Agricultural and Food Science are among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists worldwide, out of nine million active researchers in 2023, according to the annual World’s Top 2% Scientists report, a ranking compiled by scholars at Stanford University, led by Prof. John Ioannidis.
The August 2024 update of this annual World’s Top 2% Scientists report—based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus database and assessing the global scientific impact of researchers—was recently released. This ranking includes a public database of over 200,000 most-cited researchers, categorized across 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields. It comprises two distinct rankings: one based on career-long citations from 1996 to 2023, and the other on citations in the most recent year (2023). The rankings use standardized metrics, such as total citations, h-index, co-authorship-corrected hm-index, and citation positioning, all summarized in a composite indicator called the c-score.
These results underscore not only the outstanding caliber of our researchers but also the significant contributions of the Department of Agricultural and Food Science and Technology to the global scientific community.
