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Stanford University has published an updated list of the top 2% of scientists in various scientific fields. The list, a public database comprising more than 100,000 top scientists, provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to articles in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Congratulations to the 13 Kwansei Gakuin University professors who were listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022 in their fields, according to this latest update.

Professors:

• Hideki Hashimoto (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment)
• Hiroki Hibino (School of Engineering, Program of Materials Science)
• Susumu Imaoka (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences)
• Koichi Iwabuchi  (School of Sociology, Department of Sociology)
• Masako Kato (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment)
• Yasuhiro Morisaki (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment)
• Shinichi Shikata (School of Engineering, Program of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
• Hirohisa Tanaka (School of Engineering, Program of Materials Science)
• Hiroyuki Toh (School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biosciences)
• Katsunori Wakabayashi (School of Engineering, Program of Materials Science)

Emeritus Professors:

• Yukihiro Ozaki (School of Science and Technology)
• Tokio Taga (School of Science and Technology)
• Hiroshi Yamasaki (School of Science and Technology)

The time node of the statistical data of this list is from 1960 to 2022, and it is divided into two lists: "Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking" and "2022 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking." The "Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking" counts the comprehensive influence performance of scientists during their careers, and the "2022 Annual Influence Ranking" focuses on highlighting the academic influence of scientists in the previous year. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 200,000 researchers from the more than 10 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields taken into account.

Separate data are shown for career and one-year impact. Metrics with and without self-citations and the proportion of citations in citing articles are given. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields. Field and subfield specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least 5 articles.

Source:  September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"