Thirty-nine HKU Science members ranked as the World’s Top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University

With concerted efforts with the publishing house Elsevier and scientific research organisation SciTech Strategies, Stanford University has created a ranking of 2% of the best scientists whose publications are most frequently cited by other authors across the globe, making the 159,648 researchers the most influential researchers in the science world.

Among the top 2% scientists, 39 professoriate staff and affiliated members from HKU Science are included in the list under versatile disciplines, in which 5 of them under the subject field of Geochemistry & Geophysics, which performs the best among all categories.

The list is based on data from Scopus, that ranks journals and indicates a citation index. The research paper can be accessed from here.