Professor Xu Jun was selected into the top 2% of the world's top scientists in artificial intelligence and image processing

On October 10, 2022, the list of the top 2% of the world’s top scientists released by the team of Professor John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University was updated to the 2022 version. Professor Xu Jun, executive director of the Smart Medical Research Institute, was selected into the list of the top 2% of the world’s top scientists at Stanford University in the United States. The two selected research fields are: 1. Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing, 2. Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging.

The list of the top 2% of the world’s top scientists at Stanford University in the United States is the result of a globally influential project jointly conducted by Elsevier and the team of Professor John P. A. Ioannidis of Stanford University. It provides the global academic community with a measure of scientists’ long-term scientific research performance, aiming to reflect scientists’ global influence more objectively and truly. The list is based on the Scopus database and uses the following six key factors for scoring: 1) Total citations; 2) Hirsch H-index; 3) Schreiber Hm-index modified by co-authors; 4) Sole author; 5) Sole or first author; 6) The number of citations of articles of the sole, first or last author, based on their “career influence” and “annual influence”, from 22 fields and 176 In each subfield, the top 2% of scientists in the world are selected from nearly 7 million scientists. The statistical time node of this list is from 1960 to 2022, covering 200,409 scientists around the world. It is divided into two lists: “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking (1960-2022)” and “2022 Scientific Influence Ranking”.

Figure: Geographical distribution map of countries with the world’s most influential scientists in 2022 (source Elsevier)

Judging from the country distribution of the top 2% of scientists in 2022, the countries with the most influential scientists in the world are still the United States (accounting for 39.88% of the world), the United Kingdom (accounting for 9.29% of the world) and Germany (accounting for 5.49% of the world). There are 7,795 scientists labeled as Mainland China (CHN) (accounting for 3.99% of the world), an increase of 852 compared to the third edition, surpassing Japan and ranking fifth in the world. Japan’s ranking dropped from fifth to sixth; India remained at 14th; South Korea remained at 17th. The ranking of Asian countries is mainland China, Japan, India, and South Korea.

Translated from the original Chinese source.