Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) (1960-2020) List: Analysis of European Countries

Using Scopus publication impact scores, experts from Stanford University have released a complete list of the top 2% world’s most influential scientists [1]. Prof. John PA Loannidis and his colleagues at Stanford University [2] compiled the study, which Elsevier then published. In our previous articles, we mainly focused on researchers from all over the world, including the Stanford list.  However, this article focuses on the European countries that play a significant role in global innovation and research development. In Stanford’s list of 2% researchers, a total of 60065 researchers from European countries are selected. Figure 1 represents the distribution of research according to geographical location, and figure 1 shows that most of the researchers in the Stanford list are from the UK.

The number of researchers is an excellent criterion for analyzing the performance of different countries; however, the number of citations of the papers published by the researchers represents the quantitative work done by the researchers. Figure 2 represents this analysis.

The above analysis represents the performance of the different countries, but figure 3 represents the colleges’ performance in the European countries. Along with colleges, the subject is also an important criterion for analyzing the European country’s performances.  Figure 4 represents the important subject selected by the researchers.

Table 1: Top 10 Researchers in Europe

Name	Affiliation	Country	World Rank	Citations	Subject	Subject Rank
Kresse, Georg	Universitat Wien	aut	5	222898	Applied Physics	1
Friston, Karl J.	University College London	gbr	7	155441	Neurology & Neurosurgery	1
Barnes, Peter J.	National Heart and Lung Institute	gbr	10	127398	Respiratory System	1
Altman, Douglas G.	University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	gbr	11	398160	General & Internal Medicine	1
Dinarello, Charles A.	Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre	nld	27	96453	Immunology	2
Corma, Avelino	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	esp	28	112082	Physical Chemistry	1
Kroemer, Guido	Université de Paris	fra	40	178434	Immunology	3
Grimme, Stefan	Universität Bonn	deu	43	83980	Chemical Physics	2
Sheldrick, George M.	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	deu	44	137676	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	1
Rutter, Michael	King’s College London	gbr	53	74743	Developmental & Child Psychology	1

Table 2: Top 10 Countries in Europe

Country	Number of Selected Researchers
gbr	17237
deu	9986
fra	5912
ita	4956
nld	3857
swe	2889
esp	2813
dnk	1808
bel	1666
fin	1217

Table 3: Top 10 Colleges in Europe

Universities	Number of researchers
University College London	648
Imperial College London	643
University of Cambridge	587
University of Oxford	580
The University of Manchester	448
King’s College London	439
Sorbonne Universite	382
Universite Paris-Saclay	347
University of Birmingham	338
University of Bristol	337

European Researchers in Stanford University’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists (Career Impact) (1960-2020) List

References:

1. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3?fbclid=IwAR3hwMId0tq0xhZPCGwiXtLEdwuvn7TToIafNeLgF8ezaRT9lQ__svOHvc4
2. https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis

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