SN researchers among world’s top 2% of scientists on Stanford University list

Prof. Alex Molasiotis, Head of the School, and Prof. Frances Wong, Professor and Associate Dean (PolyU’s Faculty of Health and Social Sciences), have been listed among the world’s most cited researchers and those who are among the top 2% scientists within their specialty areas, released by Stanford University.

A total of 163 PolyU scholars where five of them are SN scholars (including those who had left the School and retired) were named in the ranking of 2% of the best scientists whose publications are most frequently cited by other authors across the globe. PolyU has the second highest number of scientists included on the list among Hong Kong universities.

The ranking method is based on standardized citation metrics developed by a group of scientists led by John PA Ioannidis##, a statistician at Stanford University. The scientists were grouped into 22 subject fields and 176 sub-fields using the indicators, which included information on citations, an individual’s scientific research output, co-authorship and a composite indicator for career-long citation impact up to the end of 2019.

*Associate Professor before she left the School in 2021.
** Assistant Professor before he left the School in 2021.
# Professor and Associate Head (Postgraduate Education) of the School before her retirement in 2014.
## The study was published in the journal Public Library of Science Biology, click here to view.