On September 19, Stanford University and the authoritative international academic publisher Elsevier jointly released the 2025 World's Top 2% Scientists list. The ranking is divided into two categories: the “Career-long Scientific Impact” list, which evaluates a researcher’s cumulative influence across his or her entire academic career, and the “Single-year Scientific Impact” list, which highlights scholarly achievements attained within the most recent year.

Single-year Scientific Impact Rankings

Sixteen professors from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology—Chen Junlong, Chen Min, Xu Yong, Zhang Tong, Ma Qianli, Chen Weineng, Lin Weiwei, Quan Yuhui, Yu Zhiwen, Zhang Xinglin, Gong Yuejiao, Du Guanglong, Liu Zhulin, Zhong Jinghui, Gao Ying, and Wu Yongxian—were selected for the 2025 Single-year Scientific Impact list.  

Among them, Chen Junlong, Chen Min, Lin Weiwei, Chen Weineng, and Yu Zhiwen were additionally named to the Career-long Scientific Impact list.

Career-long Scientific Impact Rankings

The ranking is compiled from a global pool of nearly seven million scientists. Using composite indicators that include total citations, h-index, co-author-adjusted hm-index, and citation counts to single- or first-authored papers, it identifies the top 2 % of researchers worldwide across 22 major fields and 174 sub-disciplines.

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