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Stanford/Elsevier list of Worlds top scientists for 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Md Noor-A-Rahim and Dr. Muhammad Yeasir Arafat, within the nasc research centre, School of Computer Science, who are listed in the top 2% researchers list for 2025.
The prestigious Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers has named 87 academics from the University College Cork experts among the global top 2% of academics most cited in their fields. You can find full list here (https://topscinet.com/university_profile/University%20College%20Cork/?stype=single_year)
The researchers are recognized as being experts in their fields in the rankings produced by Stanford University in conjunction with publisher Elsevier and the SciTech Strategies. The data is collated from Scopus.
The Stanford/Elsevier list of top scientists for 2025 is based on citations from 2024, and uses metrics like h-index, co-authorship adjustments, and a composite citation score (c-score), which reflects a scientist’s influence rather than just their publication count.
Researchers are ranked based on Scopus data, with the top 100,000 or those in the top 2% of their field included. The full list of the most-cited scientists in the world can be accessed from the Elsevier Data Repository (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8).