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2 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from Remote Sensing Featured among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022

The list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022 was released by scientists at Stanford on 10 October 2022 to recognize influential scholars around the world. According to the statistics, 220 Remote Sensing Editorial Board Members from different research fields have been selected for the list, which recognizes them for their high-quality research results and outstanding contributions in their fields of expertise.
For the details of the listed scholars, please see the full list below:
Name | Affiliation |
Prof. Dr. Adrian Stern | Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
Dr. Akram Al-Hourani | RMIT University, Australia |
Dr. Alemu Gonsamo | McMaster University, Canada |
Dr. Alessandro Matese | 1. Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council (CNR-IBE), Italy; 2. Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky | German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany |
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Huete | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
Dr. Amin Beiranvand Pour | Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia |
Dr. Ana I. de Castro | Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Anatoly Gitelson | 1. Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2. University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA |
Prof. Dr. Andrea Garzelli | University of Siena, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Andreas Reigber | German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany |
Prof. Dr. Andrew Skidmore | University of Twente, the Netherlands |
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Stateczny | Gdansk Technical University, Poland |
Dr. Anup Basu | University of Alberta, Canada |
Dr. Arko Lucieer | University of Tasmania, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa | University of Alberta, Canada |
Dr. Ashraf Dewan | Curtin University, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Assefa M. Melesse | Florida International University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Atul Jain | University of Illinois, USA |
Dr. Augusto Getirana | 1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; 2. Science Applications International Corporation, USA |
Dr. Bailang Yu | East China Normal University, China |
Prof. Dr. Long Xiao | China University of Geosciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Bas van Wesemael | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
Prof. Dr. Bisheng Yang | Wuhan University, China |
Dr. Bo Du | Wuhan University, China |
Dr. Brian Alan Johnson | Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan |
Dr. Bruno Aiazzi | Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara", National Research Council of Italy, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Bruno Basso | Michigan State University, USA |
Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva | University of Florida, USA |
Prof. Dr. Carmine Serio | University of Basilicata, Italy |
Dr. Chandra Giri | United States Environmental Protection Agency, USA |
Prof. Dr. Changshan Wu | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA |
Prof. Dr. Chaowei Yang | George Mason University, USA |
Dr. Chengbin Deng | State University of New York at Binghamton, USA |
Dr. Chris Roelfsema | The University of Queensland, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Christian Wöhler | TU Dortmund University, Germany |
Dr. Christopher D. Elvidge | NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USA |
Prof. Dr. Christopher Small | Columbia University, USA |
Dr. Claudia Kuenzer | German Aerospace Center, DLR, Germany |
Dr. Claudio Persello | University of Twente, the Netherlands |
Dr. Clement Albergel | ESA - European Space Agency, UK |
Dr. Clement Atzberger | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria |
Prof. Dr. Conghe Song | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
Prof. Dr. Costas Varotsos | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
Prof. Dr. Danfeng Hong | The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Danilo Orlando | Università degli Studi “Niccolò Cusano”, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Danlin Yu | Montclair State University, USA |
Dr. Dar Roberts | University of California, USA |
Dr. David M. Johnson | USDA / National Agricultural Statistics Service, USA |
Prof. Dr. David Skole | Michigan State University, USA |
Dr. David W. Johnston | Duke University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Debra F. Laefer | 1. New York University, USA; 2. University College Dublin, Ireland |
Prof. Dr. Dehua Mao | Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Dengsheng Lu | Fujian Normal University, China |
Dr. Dino Ienco | French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Department of Territories, France |
Dr. Dominik Seidel | University of Göttingen, Germany |
Dr. Dominique Arrouays | INRAE, InfoSol Unit, France |
Dr. Edoardo Pasolli | University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
Dr. Eileen H. Helmer | United States Department of Agriculture, USA |
Prof. Dr. Eric Small | University of Colorado, USA |
Dr. Eric Vermote | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA |
Dr. Eugenio Sansosti | Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, Italy |
Dr. Eyal Ben-Dor | Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel |
Prof. Dr. Filippo Catani | University of Florence, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Francesco Martellotta | Politecnico di Bari, Italy |
Dr. Francesco Mattia | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Italy |
Dr. Francesco Nex | University of Twente, the Netherlands |
Dr. Francesco Soldovieri | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA), Italy |
Dr. Frédéric Frappart | INRAE, Université de Bordeaux, France |
Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki | 1. Chiba University, Japan; 2. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan |
Dr. Gabriel B. Senay | USGS EROS Center, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, USA |
Dr. Gemine Vivone | Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, CNR-IMAA, Italy |
Dr. Geoffrey Parker | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA |
Dr. George P. Petropoulos | Harokopio University of Athens, Greece |
Dr. George Xian | USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, USA |
Dr. Gianpaolo Balsamo | European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, UK |
Dr. Gianpaolo Coro | National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI-CNR), Italy |
Prof. Dr. Giles Foody | University of Nottingham, UK |
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Modica | Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Greg Okin | University of California, USA |
Dr. Guillaume Ramillien | Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS/IRD/UPS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France |
Dr. Guoqing Zhou | 1. Guilin Iniversity of Technology, China; 2. Tianjin University, China |
Dr. Gwanggil Jeon | Incheon National University, South Korea |
Dr. Hamish D. Pritchard | British Antarctic Survey, UK |
Prof. Dr. Hongtao Duan | Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Hubert Hasenauer | BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria |
Prof. Dr. Ignacio A. Ciampitti | Kansas State University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Inge Sandholt | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
Dr. Ira Leifer | Bubbleology Research International, USA |
Prof. Dr. Isabel Trigo | (IPMA) EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis - Satellite Application, Facility Project Manager Rua C ao Aeroporto, Portugal |
Prof. Dr. Ismail Gultepe | Ontario Technical University, Canada |
Prof. Dr. James Campbell | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA |
Prof. Dr. James Carton | University of Maryland, USA |
Prof. Dr. Janet E. Nichol | University of Sussex, UK |
Dr. Janne Heiskanen | University of Helsinki, Finland |
Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Muller | UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK |
Dr. Jean-Christophe Calvet | CNRM, Meteo-France, France |
Dr. Jean-Louis Roujean | CESBIO, Toulouse, France |
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey F. Kelly | Plains Institute, University of Oklahoma, USA |
Prof. Dr. Jianghui Geng | Wuhan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Jianxi Huang | China Agricultural University, China |
Prof. Dr. Jie Shan | Purdue University, USA |
Dr. Jin Wu | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
Dr. Jochem Verrelst | University of Valencia, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix | Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Phillips- University of Marburg, Germany |
Prof. Dr. Jose Moreno | Universitat de València, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Josep Peñuelas | Global Ecology Unit CREAF‐CSIC‐UAB, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Juha Hyyppä | Finish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland |
Prof. Dr. Jungho Im | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea |
Prof. Dr. Junjun Jiang | Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Dr. Junshi Xia | Geoinformatics Unit, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan |
Dr. Justin Morgenroth | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Prof. Dr. Kaicun Wang | Peking University, China |
Dr. Kim Calders | Ghent University, Belgium |
Dr. Kohei Arai | Saga University, Japan |
Dr. Konstantinos Topouzelis | University of the Aegean, Greece |
Dr. Konstantinos X. Soulis | Agricultural University of Athens, Greece |
Dr. Krzysztof Stereńczak | Forest Research Institute, Poland |
Prof. Dr. Lalit Kumar | East Coast Geospatial Consultants, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Lefei Zhang | Wuhan University, China |
Dr. Leonor Calvo | Universidad de León, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Liping Di | George Mason University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Lizhe Wang | Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Luca Brocca | National Research Council, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Lunche Wang | China University of Geosciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Marco Scaioni | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Dr. Martin Mlynczak | NASA Langley Research Center, USA |
Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Pieraccini | University of Florence, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Massimo Menenti | Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, China |
Dr. Matthew Clarke | Sonoma State University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Matthew McCabe | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
Dr. Mauro Dalla Mura | GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France |
Dr. Mehrez Zribi | Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Miaogen Shen | Beijing Normal University, China |
Dr. Michael H. F. Wilkinson | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
Prof. Dr. Michael Lefsky | Colorado State University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Michael Vohland | Leipzig University, Germany |
Dr. Michele Meroni | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D – Sustainable Resources, Food Security Unit, Italy |
Dr. Mohammad Awrangjeb | Griffith University, Australia |
Dr. Nancy E. Grulke | USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, USA |
Dr. Nicolas Baghdadi | University of Montpellier, France |
Prof. Dr. Noam Levin | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Dr. Okan Yurduseven | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |
Dr. Oleg Dubovik | Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Universite Lille, France |
Dr. Olivier Merlin | CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, France |
Dr. Pamela Nagler | U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, USA |
Dr. Parth Sarathi Roy | Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, World Resources Institute India, India |
Dr. Paul Honeine | LITIS Lab, Université de Rouen Normandie, France |
Prof. Dr. Paul Scheunders | Vision Lab, University of Antwerp (CDE), Belgium |
Dr. Paulo Pereira | Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania |
Prof. Dr. L. Monika Moskal | University of Washington (UW), USA |
Dr. Peng Fu | Harrisburg University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Peng Jia | Wuhan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Pinliang Dong | University of North Texas, USA |
Prof. Dr. Piotr Samczynski | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
Prof. Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman | Swinburne University of Technology, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Qi Wang | Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Dr. Qiangqiang Yuan | Wuhan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Qihao Weng | Indiana State University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Qile Zhao | Wuhan University, China |
Dr. Qinghua Guo | State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Qiuhong Tang | Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Qiusheng Wu | University of Tennessee, USA |
Dr. Ralph R. Ferraro | NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), USA |
Prof. Dr. Raphael M. Kudela | University of California, USA |
Dr. Robert Brewin | University of Exeter (Penryn Campus), UK |
Dr. Robert Treuhaft | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA |
Dr. Ronald C. Estoque | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan |
Dr. Ronan Fablet | Institut Mines-Télécom, Telecom-Bretagne, France |
Dr. Rosa Lasaponara | CNR-IMAA (Institute of Environmental Analysis), Italy |
Prof. Dr. Ruiliang Pu | University of South Florida, USA |
Prof. Dr. Salah Bourennane | Ecole Centrale de Marseille, France |
Dr. Sandra Eckert | University of Bern, Switzerland |
Prof. Dr. Sébastien Lefèvre | IRISA, Université Bretagne Sud, Campus de Tohannic, France |
Dr. Seyed Amir Naghibi | Lund University, Sweden |
Dr. Shawn P. Serbin | Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA |
Prof. Dr. Shuanggen Jin | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath | Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK |
Prof. Dr. Shuguang Liu | Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Shunichi Koshimura | Tohoku University, Japan |
Prof. Dr. Simon Jones | RMIT University, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Soe W. Myint | Arizona State University, USA |
Dr. Soo Chin Liew | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Prof. Dr. Stefania Bonafoni | University of Perugia, Italy |
Dr. Stefano Mattoccia | University of Bologna, Italy |
Dr. Stefano Tebaldini | Politecnico di Milano, Department of Information, Electronics, and Bioengineering, Italy |
Prof. Dr. Stuart Phinn | University of Queensland, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Tamas Sziranyi | Machine Perception Research Laboratory, Hungary |
Dr. Tao Lei | Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Udelhoven | University of Trier, Germany |
Prof. Dr. Toby N. Carlson | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Dr. Tomoaki Miura | University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA |
Prof. Dr. Valerio Tramutoli | University of Basilicata, Italy |
Dr. W. Gareth Rees | University of Cambridge, UK |
Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhou | State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Wenge Ni-meister | Hunter College The City University of New York, USA |
Prof. Dr. Wenhui Kuang | Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Wenjiang Huang | Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Xia Yao | Nanjing Agricultural University, China |
Dr. Xian Sun | Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Xiangrong Zhang | Xidian University, China |
Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Tong | Tongji University, China |
Dr. Xiaoxiong Xiong | Sciences and Exploration Directorate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA |
Dr. Xin Li | Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Xuecao Li | China Agricultural University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yanfei Zhong | Wuhan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yang Hong | University of Oklahoma, USA |
Prof. Dr. Yongjiu Dai | Sun Yat-sen University, China |
Dr. Yongxiang Hu | NASA Langley Research Center, USA |
Dr. Yoshio Inoue | University of Tokyo, Japan |
Dr. Yuanwei Qin | University of Oklahoma, USA |
Prof. Dr. Yuji Murayama | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Prof. Dr. Yunlin Zhang | Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dr. Yuwei Chen | Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland |
Dr. Yuxin Miao | University of Minnesota, USA |
Dr. Zhe Zhu | University of Connecticut, USA |
Prof. Dr. Zhenhong Li | Chang’an University, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhenwei Shi | Beihang University, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhong Lu | Southern Methodist University, USA |
Congratulations to the scholars again!
Source: September 2022 data update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4.