Recently, Stanford University and Elsevier jointly published the List of World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024. Professor Wei Lu was on the list of career-long impact (1960-2023) and single-year impact of 2024. Professor Jiang Wu, Professor Lin Zhang, Professor Yongqiang Sun and Associate Professor Han Zheng were on the list of single-year impact of 2024. There are 18 scholars in the library and information science worldwide on the list of career-long impact, including 4 scholars from China mainland.

The list is used to measure long-term and short-term impact of scholars. John P.A. Ioannidis and his team have created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). Separate data are shown for career-long and, separately, for single recent year impact. Metrics with and without self-citations and ratio of citations to citing papers are given and data on retracted papers (based on Retraction Watch database) as well as citations to/from retracted papers have been added in the most recent iteration. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2023 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2023.