Recently, Stanford University and the internationally renowned academic publisher Elsevier jointly released the 2026 World's Top 2% Scientists list. The list is divided into the "Career-long Impact" and "Single-year Impact" rankings, focusing respectively on the cumulative impact of scientists throughout their entire academic careers and their academic achievements in the current year.
Academician Li Jun from the School of Spatial Artificial Intelligence at East China Normal University was selected for both the "Career-long Impact" and "Single-year Impact" rankings, while Professor Tan Kun and Associate Professor Zhou Yue were included in the "Single-year Impact" ranking. The successful inclusion of these three scholars highlights the academic influence and outstanding achievements of the high-end talents at the School of Spatial Artificial Intelligence, East China Normal University.
It is reported that the list is based on a systematic analysis of citation data from the Scopus database. Using six key indicators—total citations, Hirsch H-index, co-author-corrected Schreiber Hm-index, single-author, single or first-author, and single, first, or last-author article citations—it selects the top 2% of scientists worldwide from the global scientific community.
