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Eight researchers from the University of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ have been included in the annual list of the international scientific database known as the Stanford Top 2%, published on 7 October 2026, which highlights researchers' international scientific impact based on citations received in 2025.

Researchers from the University of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ have been included in the list every year since 2020. Successive editions make it possible to track citations of research results, showing which works continue to be cited over time and how individual researchers' citation records develop.

Based on Annual Citation Impact:

János Abonyi, Péter Bakonyi, András Guttman, Ulrike Jessner, András Liker, Norbert Miskolczi, Viktor Sebestyén, Gergely L. Tóth*.

Based on Career-Long Citation Impact:

János Abonyi, Katalin Bélafi-Bakó, András Guttman, Ulrike Jessner, Norbert Miskolczi, Endre Nagy †, Gábor Speier †, Gergely L. Tóth*, Zsolt Tuza.

* Gergely L. Tóth was previously a staff member of the Georgikon Faculty, formerly part of the University of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ.

† Our deceased researchers.

Citations demonstrate the lasting influence of research results: other authors may use published methods, compare their own findings with them, or further investigate the conclusions. In this way, a scientific publication can continue to contribute to the development of a research field years after its publication. The inclusion of our deceased colleagues in the list also reflects the enduring citation impact of their work.

We congratulate our researchers featured on the list, as well as the colleagues who have contributed to their work! This achievement also highlights the collective efforts of co-authors, research groups, and collaborating partners.

The compilation, associated with Stanford University and published in the Elsevier Data Repository, evaluates the citation impact of individual researchers; it does not produce an institutional ranking. It is based on data from Scopus, a database that records scientific publications and their citations, and uses a composite indicator known as the c-score, which combines several citation metrics. The calculation also takes co-authorship and author positions into account.

There are two ways to be included: a researcher must either rank among the 100,000 authors with the highest composite scores or be among the top two percent within their specific scientific field. Therefore, the widely used name does not refer to a single, unified ranking of all researchers worldwide.

The annual list also counts citations received in 2025 for publications released in previous years. A researcher may appear on both lists. To assess changes over time, it is advisable to compare the same indicators and list types across successive editions. Citation impact is an important, but not the only, indicator of research performance.

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