Recently, Stanford University and the globally renowned academic publisher Elsevier released the 2025 Global Top 2% Scientists List, highlighting the world’s most influential researchers across all disciplines. Six scholars from our university have been honored on this year’s list, with two selected for the Career-long Scientific Impact List and six featured in the Single-year Scientific Impact List.

Researcher Wang Xin and Professor Muhammad Sufyan Javed from the Institute of Carbon Neutrality were recognized for their career-long scientific impact. Meanwhile, Professor Yu Yubing from the School of Logistics and E-commerce, together with Researcher Wang Xin, Professor Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Associate Professor Tan Lichao, Dr. Waseem Raza, and Dr. Asim Mushtaq from the Institute of Carbon Neutrality, were listed for their single-year scientific impact.

The inclusion of these six scholars underscores our university’s robust research capacity and international influence in sustainable operations and supply chain management, digital-real economy integration and collaborative governance, and new energy materials.

The Global Top 2% Scientists List is composed of two categories: the Career-long Impact List and the Single-year Impact List. The former evaluates a scientist’s cumulative academic contributions, while the latter focuses on research performance and influence over the previous year. Drawn from a database of nearly 7 million scientists worldwide, the list identifies the top 2% based on a composite of standardized citation indicators-including total citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, and citations of single- or first-authored papers-across 22 disciplines and 174 sub-fields.