In October 2023, Stanford University and Elsevier released the sixth edition of World's Top 2% Scientists. The list selects the world's top 2% scientists from about 7 million scientists around the world who are classified into 22 subject fields and 174 sub-fields, by comprehensively evaluating the scientists' career-long academic achievements and influence. The list is divided into two rankings: Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking and 2022 Annual Influence Ranking. The former focuses on the impact of researchers throughout their academic careers, while the latter highlights the academic achievements of researchers in the current year of 2022.
Seven scholars from SUES have been selected in Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking. They are Xuebo Yin, Wei An, Xiaozhen Sheng, Qinghua Lu, Yansong Wang, Hengyun Zhang, and Li Chen.
Nine scholars from SUES have been selected in 2022 Annual Influence Ranking. They are Xuebo Yin, Xiaozhen Sheng, Wei An, Hengyun Zhang, Qinghua Lu, Min Zhang, Yansong Wang, Peilei Zhang, and Jiping Wang.
Since being on the list means that these scholars boast a great world influence in their research fields, the list reflects SUES’ great achievements in discipline construction and scientific research, hence playing a positive role in promoting the global impact of SUES.