Insubria rises in the World Top 2% Scientists ranking: 44 professors listed among the world's most cited researchers according to Stanford

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The University of Insubria confirms and strengthens its presence in the World Top 2% Scientists 2025 ranking, developed by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier and the global scientific research database Scopus.

This year, 44 members of the University’s academic staff are included in the ranking relating to the impact of publications from 2024 for their research, and 29 are listed in the career-long ranking, which also includes several former faculty members. This result highlights steady progress: in 2017, only 7 members of the University’s staff appeared on the list, rising to 28 in the 2023 “career” analysis and to 41 in the ranking based on citations for the year 2022 alone. 

The World Top 2% Scientists ranking considers more than 11 million scientists, classified across 22 fields and 174 disciplinary subfields, identifying for each the top 2% with the greatest scientific impact worldwide. Now in its eighth edition, the bibliometric analysis is based on Scopus data and is publicly available at the following link: Elsevier Digital Commons Data.

For the University of Insubria, the following scholars have been recognised in the career-long ranking up to 2024, listed in descending order by number of citations: Paola Gramatica, Luigi Bartalena, Georges Jean Marie Maestroni, Luigi A. Lugiato, Francesco Haardt, Giulio Casati, Stefano La Rosa, Stefano Serra-Capizzano, Francesco Dentali, Paolo Antonio Grossi, Fabio Ghezzi, Loredano Pollegioni, Elena Cristina Rada, Francesco Grossi, Vincenzo Torretta, Carlo Capella, Davide D. Calamari, Fabio Ferri, Norberto Masciocchi, Alberto Parola, Paolo G. Castelnuovo, Giuliano Benenti, Giampiero P. Campanelli, Elena F. Ferrari, Sabrina Sicari, Marco Mario Ferrario, Paolo Di Trapani, Ester Papa, Alessandra Andreoni.

In the ranking referring to the single year 2024, again listed from the most cited, the following appear: Paola Gramatica, Luigi Bartalena, Francesco Haardt, Stefano La Rosa, Luigi A. Lugiato, Vincenzo Torretta, Francesco Dentali, Navarro Ferronato, Salvatore Carlucci, Giampiero P. Campanelli, Georges Jean Marie Maestroni, Elena Cristina Rada, Loredano Pollegioni, Francesco Grossi, Fabio Ghezzi, Paolo G. Castelnuovo, Genciana Terova, Marco Cosentino, Jenny G. Vitillo, Sabrina Sicari, Antonio Travaglino, Fabio Angeli, Giovanni Veronesi, Paolo Antonio Grossi, Stefano Serra-Capizzano, Alessandro Squizzato, Maddalena Peghin, Gianluca Tettamanti, Norberto Masciocchi, Silvia Salvatore, Antonio Spanevello, Vittorio Gorini, Simona Rimoldi, Marco Mario Ferrario, Paolo Capogrosso, Maurizio Serati, Nicola Zerbinati, Giuliano Benenti