Seven Sophia University researchers have been ranked in the Updated Science-wide Author Database of Standardized Citation Indicators, a comprehensive list identifying the world’s top 2% of scientists, updated, and published on September 17, 2024, by Stanford University and Elsevier.

The ranking is based on the Scopus citation database and includes the top 2% of scientists worldwide who have published at least five papers in 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.

Single Recent Year Category

• Horikoshi Satoshi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences
• Takai Kenichi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Miyatake Masafumi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Takahashi Hiroshi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences

Career-long Category

• Hirano Tetsufumi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Takahashi Hiroshi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences
• Takai Kenichi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Fujita Masahiro　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences
• Miyatake Masafumi　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Arai Takayuki　Professor
  -Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences

For reference: Elsevier Data Repository
August 2024 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”