9 UOC researchers rank among the World's top 2% of Scientists - 2022 Release

Stanford University recently released the list of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists in the updated Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators on the 10^th of October 2022. The analysis was prepared by a team of experts led by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford University, and 40 Sri Lankan scientists including 9 researchers affiliated with the University of Colombo have been ranked on this list.
In the year 2021 list of the top 2% scientists, Emeritus Professor Kamini Mendis, Professor Senaka Rajapakse, Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Professor Nadira D. Karunaweera, Professor K. M. Nalin de Silva, Professor Priyanga Ranasinghe, Professor Ranil Jayawardena and Dr. Umesh Jayarajah have been included.
Emeritus Professor W D Ratnasooriya, Emeritus Professor Kamini Mendis, Professor Senaka Rajapakse and Professor Nadira D. Karunaweera are on the Career-long top 2% of scientists list.
This career-long database and single-year dataset considered 195,605 scientists and 200,409 scientists respectively from 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. Calculations were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of September 1, 2022. The database of top-cited scientists 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).