 {"id":14880,"date":"2025-11-25T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:33:37","slug":"our-professors-ranked-in-the-top-2-of-the-best-scientists-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/?p=14880&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Our Professors Ranked in the Top 2% of the Best Scientists Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/logo_Top2PercentScientists.png\" alt=\"logo World's Top 2% Scientists\" class=\"wp-image-14878\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/logo_Top2PercentScientists.png 864w, https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/logo_Top2PercentScientists-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/logo_Top2PercentScientists-768x708.png 768w, https:\/\/stc.uniroma2.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/logo_Top2PercentScientists-325x300.png 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On September 16, 2025, as is customary each year, <strong>Elsevier<\/strong> published its list of the <strong>\u201cWorld&#8217;s Top 2% Scientists,\u201d<\/strong> compiled using a methodology developed by researchers at Stanford University (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), \u201cAugust 2025 data-update for \u2018Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators\u2019\u201d, Elsevier Data Repository, V8, doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com\/datasets\/btchxktzyw\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.17632\/btchxktzyw.8<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list identifies the top 2% of scientists worldwide based on citation metrics. Researchers are grouped into two categories: one for overall career impact and one for impact in a single year. The list uses the extensive abstract and citation database of Scopus\/ Elsevier to calculate an overall score (c-score) that takes into account the number of citations, the Hirsch index (h-index), and the corrected h-index, thus providing a reliable measure of the impact that the scientific work of individual researchers has, relative to their field of activity, within the international scientific community of reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again this year, the Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies has confirmed its scientific excellence, with ten professors ranked in the top 2% in terms of overall career impact and\/or impact in a single year (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are their names (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARDUINI Fabiana<br>BIETTI Massimo<br>CARBONE Marilena<br>ERCOLANI Gianfranco<br>MOSCONE Danila<br>PAOLESSE Roberto<br>POLINI Riccardo<br>RICCI Francesco<br>TRAVERSA Enrico<br>VALENTINI Federica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uniroma2.it\/it\/contenuto\/i-top-2-scientists-di-roma-tor-vergata\">Click here<\/a> for more informations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 16, 2025, as is customary each year, Elsevier published its list of the \u201cWorld&#8217;s Top 2% Scientists,\u201d compiled using a methodology developed by researchers at Stanford University (Ioannidis, John P.A. 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