Ten Faculty Named Among World's Top 2% Scientists

October 06, 2025

Ten Meyers faculty were named on this year's Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists list. Eight were recognized for nursing, one for obstetrics-gynecology, and one for geronotolgy.

The annual list ranks scientists across various disciplines based on standardized indicators like total citations, Hirsch-index, and author-specific citation data, with the goal of highlighting influential researchers with significant scientific impact.

This prestigious roster of highly cited scholars is identified by a research group at Stanford University, using data from Elsevier's Scopus database. 

From the left:

Associate Prof. Jasmine Travers Altizer, Prof. Sean Clarke, Prof. Emerita Christine Kovner, Exec. Vice Dean Audrey Lyndon, Assistant Prof. Chenjuan Ma, Visiting Prof. Monica McLemore, Associate Prof. Dena Schulman-Green, Prof. Allison Squires - all recognized for nursing; Prof. Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski for Obstetrics and Gynocology), and Provost, NYU Shanghai Bei Wu, for Gerontology.

 

headshot collage of all 10 faculty