Twenty-one UPEI researchers named to 2025 Elsevier/Stanford University Top 2% of Scientists List
Twenty-one UPEI researchers have been named to the 2025 Elsevier/Stanford Top 2% of Scientists List.
Elsevier, in collaboration with Stanford University, unveiled its latest compilation of the world’s most influential and top-cited scientists and engineers (top 2%) earlier this year, offering a comprehensive view of research impact across a range of disciplines. The list provides standardized indicators of scholarly influence, measuring both career-long achievements and single-year impacts and is intended to address the misuse of citation metrics.
The publicly accessible database was updated in August 2025 with information from Scopus, a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.
The study’s methodology categorizes research areas into 22 broad fields and 174 sub-fields, with percentile rankings for researchers. The selection is based on the world’s top 100,000 scientists by the “index c-score” (a comprehensive gauge factoring in the total number of citations received for papers where the scientist is the single, first, or last author, emphasizing the impact of their published work) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.
The following is an alphabetical list of the UPEI researchers on the Top 2% of Scientists List in either the career- and single-year impact category, or both:
- Dr. Rabin Bissessur, Professor, Chemistry, Faculty of Science: https://islandscholar.ca/people/rabissessur
- Dr. Michael Cockram, Professor, Health Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/mcockram
- Dr. Gary Conboy, Professor Emeritus, Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/conboy
- Dr. Ian Dohoo, Professor Emeritus, Health Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/dohoo
- Dr. Gaoliang Fang, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering: https://islandscholar.ca/people/gfang
- Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, Associate Dean, UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation: https://islandscholar.ca/people/afarooque
- Dr. Mark Fast, Professor, Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/mfast
- Dr. Ian Gardner, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Dr. Robert Gilmour, Professor (retired), Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering
- Dr. Dominique Griffon, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/dgriffon
- Dr. Yulin Hu, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering: https://islandscholar.ca/people/yulinhu
- Dr. Masoud Karbasi, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation
- Dr. Greg Keefe, Advisor to the President, UPEI; past Dean and Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/gkeefe
- Dr. Fred Kibenge, Professor (retired), Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/kibenge
- Dr. Suzanne Kresta, Dean, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering: https://islandscholar.ca/people/skresta
- Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President, Academic and Research; Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering: https://islandscholar.ca/people/gnaterer
- Dr. Karen Overall, Professor, Biomedical Sciences: https://islandscholar.ca/people/koverall
- Dr. Kathryn Proudfoot, Professor, Health Management, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; Director, Sir James Animal Dunn Welfare Centre: https://islandscholar.ca/people/kproudfoot
- Dr. Travis Saunders, Professor, Applied Health Sciences, Faculty of Science: https://islandscholar.ca/people/trsaunders
- Dr. David Speare, Professor, Fish Pathology, Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: https://islandscholar.ca/people/speare
- Dr. Brian Wagner, Professor, Chemistry, Faculty of Science: https://islandscholar.ca/people/bwagner
“On behalf of UPEI, I congratulate my colleagues for this recognition of the global impact of their research and innovation, and am honoured to be counted among them,” said Dr. Greg Naterer, Vice-President, Academic and Research.
