SI Affiliates recognized in the Top 2% Scientists worldwide

Congratulations to the Sustainability Institute's Director, Elena Irwin, and 72 of our affiliates for their recognition in the 2025 World’s Top 2% Scientists list! These researchers are a distinguished group recognized in the Top 2% Scientists listing, a collaboration between Stanford University and Elsevier, for global impact and highly cited scholarship.

The organization DataMeta Lab, compiled the list of the top 2% of scientists from a global review of top-performing researchers. The ranking includes researchers who fall within the top 2% percentile or above, based on their c-score (with and without self-citations). This c-score is calculated using standardized data on citations, h-index, and other bibliometric indicators derived from Scopus data provided by Elsevier.

Congratulations again to all the recognized SI affiliates:

Anant Agarwal

Sheikh Akbar

Bhavik Bakshi

V.M. Balasubramaniam

Elliot Bendoly

Alison Bennett

Ramiro Berardo

Ken Boyer

Bryan C Carstens

Zhenhua Chen

David R Cole

Antonio Conejo

Katrina Cornish

Thaddeus Ezeji

Liang-Shih Fan

Joseph Fiksel

Gerald Frankel

Mary Gardiner

Jared Gardner

Pelagia-Irene Gouma

Michael Groeber

Andrea G Grottoli

Winston Ho

Ian Howat

Elena Irwin

Jeffrey B. Jacquet

Joel T. Johnson

Jung-Hyun Kim

Rattan Lal

Clark Spencer Larsen

Desheng Liu

Klaus Lorenz

Stuart Ludsin

Alan A. Luo

Becky Mansfield

Sandip Mazumder

David W McComb

Harvey Miller

Joachim Moortgat

David Nagib

Shujun Ou

Umit Ozkan

Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Joel Paulson

Bill Peterman

Rongjun Qin

Steven Quiring

T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu

Giorgio Rizzoni

Brian E. Roe

Matthew Saltzman

Audrey Sawyer

Christo Sevov

Halil Sezen

Hannah Shafaat

Abdollah Shafieezadeh

Ajay Shah

C.K. Shum

Brent Sohngen

Narasi Sridhar

James P. Strange

Matthew B Sullivan

Mike Sumption

Christine M. Thomas

Lonnie G Thompson

Claudia Turro

Caroline S. Wagner

Yiying Wu

Shang-Tian Yang

Aylin Yener

Hongtao Yi

Alper Yilmaz

Kaiguang Zhao