UCC experts named in Elsevier/Stanford’s top 2% of researchers worldwide

20 Oct 2023

The prestigious Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers has named 110 University College Cork experts among the global top 2% of academics most cited in their fields. The list includes a large number of academics from the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science. These rankings demonstrate how UCC researchers are working at the highest international level, pushing the boundaries of discovery and innovation.

Professor John Cryan, UCC Vice President for Research and Innovation said:

"Congratulations to all our outstanding researchers to have made this rankings list. These ranking results reflect the significant contribution that researchers in UCC are making on a global stage across a wide range of research themes.”

The rankings originated when a group of academics at Stanford University 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). These rankings are significant as this is the only publicly available citation database that accommodates different discipline citation practices.

The rankings were compiled by Stanford University and recently published by Elsevier. The researchers are classified in 22 disciplinary fields and 174 subfields.

The selection is based on the top 100,000 researchers by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This work uses information from the Scopus database provided by Elsevier through the ICSR Lab (International Center for the Study of Research). The rankings can be accessed here.