| Description | Named on "2023 Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists list in 2022" (Career Impact). Based on bibliometric data from the Scopus database, this list is widely regarded as the most renowned of its kind.
Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). Separate data are shown for career-long and, separately, for single recent year impact. Metrics with and without self-citations and ratio of citations to citing papers are given. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2021 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2021. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This version (5) is based on the Sept 1, 2022 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2021. This work uses Scopus data provided by Elsevier through ICSR Lab (https://www.elsevier.com/icsr/icsrlab).
References
1. Access to the List: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/5
2. September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Released November 3, 2022. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/v1/datasets/compare/btchxktzyw/3/5 (DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.5; Version 5).
3. The news announcement appears in the peer-reviewed journal "Future Pharmacology":
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futurepharmacol/announcements/4828
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