31 Scientists from Kafrelsheikh University are on Stanford’s List of the Top 2% in the World with the Most Cited Researches

Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Desouky, President of the University, announces that there are 31 scientists from the university in various scientific fields, among the list of the top 2% of the world's most influential scientists in terms of their total scientific production and reference citations for their scientific researches. This list includes more than 210 thousand scientists from 167 countries around the world, in which scientists are classified in 22 scientific fields, divided into 176 specializations.

Prof. Dr. Abdelrazek Desouky points out that the appearance of 31 scientists from the university in the Stanford lists confirms the quality of the research outputs of the university’s members, and also reflects the extent of the efforts made by staff members in the recent period to promote scientific research and increase the number and impact of researches published in prestigious scientific journals included in global databases, as a result of the support provided by the university to researchers to achieve the quality of scientific research outputs.

Otherwise, Prof. Dr. Ismail Al-Qon, Vice President of the University for Postgraduate Studies and Research, points out that the report reflects the strengthening of the confidence of international scientific and research circles in our scientists in all fields and specializations, and that this ranking uses the Scopus database of the global publisher Elsevier to extract various indicators for this list, including international scientific publishing, number of citations, the H-index, co-authorship, and the composite citation index.

It is worth noting that the Kafrelsheikh University scholars who are included in the list of the top 2% of the world’s most influential scholars in terms of their overall scientific production and citations of their scientific research are from the Faculties of “Engineering, Agriculture, Science, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Fisheries, Computers and Information, Artificial Intelligence, and the Institute of Nanoscience and Technology.”