Eight researchers from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) have been included in Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists worldwide. The list was prepared by a team of experts led by Prof John Ioannidis from Stanford University and published by Elsevier BV recently.

UTAR is very proud to congratulate the researchers who have made it to the top 2%.

In the top 2% rank in Career-Long 2021 are Emeritus Prof Dr Boo Nem Yun, Ir Prof Dr Ong Kok Seng, and Prof Dr Chong Kok Keong.

In the top 2% rank in Single Recent Year 2021 are Ir Ts Dr Bernard Saw Lip Huat, Ir Prof Dr Ong Kok Seng, Emeritus Prof Dr Boo Nem Yun, Prof Dr Sumathi Sethupathi, Dr Pang Yean Lin, Dr Steven Lim, and Mr Hew Jun Jie.

UTAR will continue to focus on teaching and research as the way forward for a progressive university that promotes quality in education and research.

Stanford University scientists have created a 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). They show separate data for career-long and for single recent year impact. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2021, and single current-year data pertain to citations received during the calendar year 2021. The selection is based on a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. They classified scientists into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. The publicly available database of over 100,000 top scientists provides standardized information on citations, h-index, and citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.