10 October 2025
AI Editorial Board Members Featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2025

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Scientists at Stanford University have recently published an updated list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists, the World’s Top 2% Scientists.
The time node of the statistical data of this list is from 1960 to 2025, and it is divided into two lists: “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” and “2025 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking”. The “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” counts the comprehensive influence performance of scientists during their careers, and the “2025 Annual Influence Ranking” focuses on highlighting the academic influence of scientists in the previous year. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 200,000 researchers from the more than 10 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields taken into account.
We are pleased to share that 16 Editorial Board Members from MDPI’s AI (ISSN: 2673-2688) were featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list in 2025.
Name: | Affiliation: |
Prof. Dr. Kenji Suzuki | Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan |
Dr. Shuhui Li | University of Alabama, USA |
Prof. Dr. Bernd R. Noack | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib | Tampere University, Finland |
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Cuzzocrea | University of Calabria, Italy |
Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshida | Harvard Medical School, USA |
Dr. Roberto Confalonieri | Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Huajun Chen | Zhejiang University, China |
Prof. Dr. Ke-Lin Du | Guangdong University of Science and Technology, China |
Dr. Donato Impedovo | Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy |
Dr. Arslan Munir | FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, USA |
Dr. Agostino Forestiero | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Yunze He | Hunan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Sharifu Ura | Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan |
Dr. Mikel Galar | Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Yeong Min Jang | Kookmin University, Republic of Korea |
The latest rankings reflect the significant influence and research excellence of scientists who are committed to furthering their knowledge for the benefit of the world.
We would like to congratulate our Editorial Board Members on their excellent achievements and thank them for their immense contributions to the scientific progression and development of the journal AI.