Seventeen ϳԹresearchers represented in prestigious Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% of Scientists list

Elsevier, in collaboration with Stanford University, has unveiled its latest compilation of the world’s most influential and top-cited scientists (top 2%), offering a comprehensive view of academic impact across disciplines. The —which includes 17 ϳԹresearchers—provides a nuanced picture of scholarly influence, measuring both career-long achievements and single-year impacts and is intended to address the misuse of citation metrics.
“Congratulations to my colleagues for their achievements and commitment to research,” said Dr. Wendy Rodgers, ϳԹPresident and Vice-Chancellor. “Seeing this number of ϳԹscholars on this prestigious list is a source of pride as it reaffirms our identity as an institution that makes a positive impact on society through research and scholarly work.”
The was updated in August 2024 with information from Scopus, a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.
The study’s methodology categorizes researchers into 22 broad fields and 174 sub-fields, with percentile rankings for those boasting at least five publications. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by the “index c-score” (a comprehensive gauge factoring in the total number of citations received for papers where the scientist is the single, first, or last author, emphasizing the impact of their published work) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.
UPEI’s 17 researchers who are on the Top 2% of Scientists List in either the career- and single-year impact category (or both) include:
Career (11)
- Ian Gardner:
- Greg Naterer:
- Ian Dohoo:
- Greg Keefe:
- Robert Gilmour
- Fred Kibenge:
- Suzanne Kresta:
- Mark Fast:
- Gary Conboy:
- David Speare:
- Kevin Smith
Single Year (13)
- Greg Naterer:
- Khabat Khosravi
- Travis Saunders:
- Greg Keefe:
- Ian Dohoo:
- Ian Gardner:
- Yulin Hu:
- Fred Kibenge:
- Aitazaz Farooque:
- Mark Fast:
- Gary Conboy:
- Katy Proudfoot:
- Jason Stull: