Seventeen professors and researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon are included in the latest edition of the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 Ranking, compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier.

This ranking recognizes the world’s most influential researchers in their respective fields, based on citation counts, acknowledging those whose work was really important and helpful to other scientists.

In the 2024 edition, the ranking features the most cited authors and the most influential scientists throughout their careers, up to the end of 2023.

Among the Top 2% of the most cited are 16 professors and researchers from FFUL:

  • Brites, Dora
  • Rodrigues, Cecília M.P.
  • Rodrigues, Tiago
  • Reis, Catarina Pinto
  • Marto, Joana
  • Afonso, Carlos A.M.
  • Cabral-Marques, Helena
  • Almeida, António J.
  • Gaspar, Rogério Sá
  • Pinto, João F.
  • Ribeiro, Helena
  • Florindo, Helena F.
  • Gaspar, Maria Manuela
  • Santos, Maria M.M.
  • Ferreira, Maria José U.
  • Bettencourt, Ana F.

Among the Top 2% most influential throughout their entire careers are 8 professors and researchers:

  • Afonso, Carlos A.M.
  • Brites, Dora
  • Cabral-Marques, Helena
  • Gaspar, Rogério Sá
  • Santos, Maria M.M.
  • Reis, Catarina Pinto
  • Ribeiro, Maria H.L.
  • Ferreira, Maria José U.

The annual list features the names of nearly 223 thousand of the world’s most cited scientists up to the end of 2023, representing the top 2% of the most influential scientists, classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification.

FFUL is represented in the scientific fields of Pharmacology & Pharmacy, Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, and Biotechnology.

The data can be accessed here.