Editorial Board Members from Microorganisms Featured in Stanford’s List of World’s Top 2% Scientists

Stanford University recently published its updated list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists. The data, ranging from 1960 to 2022, are divided into two lists: the “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” and the “2022 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking”. The “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” presents the comprehensive influence of scientists during their careers, and the “2022 Annual Influence Ranking” highlights the academic influence of scientists in the previous year. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 200,000 of the more than 10 million active scientists worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields considered.

We are pleased to share that 156 Editorial Board Members from MDPI’s journal Microorganisms (IF: 4.926, ISSN: 2076-2607) were featured in Stanford University’s list of World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022.

Name	Affiliation
Prof. Dr. Andrea Crisanti	Department of Life Sciences, UK
Prof. Dr. Adelaide Almeida	Campus Universitário de Santiago, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Aaron Lerner	Aesku.Kipp Institute, Germany
Dr. Akikazu Sakudo	Okayama University of Science, Japan
Dr. Andrea Masotti	Research Laboratories, Italy
Prof. Dr. Antonella d'Arminio Monforte	University of Milan, Italy
Prof. Dr. Antonio Bevilacqua	University of Foggia, Italy
Dr. Arvind Varsani	Arizona State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Anthony J. Sinskey	Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Dr. Assaf Sukenik	Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Israel
Dr. Assunta Bertaccini	University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Shawn Babiuk	National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canada
Dr. Bruce S. Seal	Biology Program and Honors College, Oregon State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Holger Brüggemann	Aarhus University, Skou Building, Høegh, Denmark
Dr. Caroline M. Plugge	Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Changsun Choi	Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
Dr. Christophe Chassard	Centre de recherche Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes, France
Prof. Dr. Christophe Lacroix	Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Claudio de Simone	University of L’Aquila, Italy
Prof. Dr. Keith Clay	Tulane University, USA
Dr. Clarissa J. Nobile	University of California Merced, USA
Dr. Andrea Cortegiani	University of Palermo, Italy
Dr. Svetlana N. Dedysh	Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Prof. Dr. Denis Roy	Laval University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Haltrich	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Dr. Dilfuza Egamberdieva	Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Deepak Shukla	University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Dr. Egija Zaura	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Hyun Uk Kim	Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Prof. Dr. Sharon Einav	Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Dr. Elda Righi	University of Verona, Italy
Prof. Dr. Eliora Ron	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Caselli	University of Ferrara, Italy
Dr. Eric Dannaoui	Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Cité, France
Prof. Dr. Eric W. Triplett	University of Florida, USA
Dr. Federica Villa	Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Dr. Francesca Turroni	University of Parma, Italy
Prof. Dr. François Blachier	Université Paris-Saclay, France
Prof. Dr. Frank Schweizer	University of Manitoba, Canada
Prof. Graziano Pesole	University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Dr. Gabriella d'Ettorre	University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy
Dr. Gereon R. M. Schares	National Reference Centre for Toxoplasmosis, Germany
Prof. Dr. Xia Wang	Shandong University, China
Prof. Dr. Gianluigi Mauriello	University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Dr. Giancarlo Perrone	Via G. Amendola 122/O, Italy
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Comi	University of Udine, Italy
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Graziano	Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Dr. Gregor Grass	Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (IMB), Germany
Prof. Dr. Glenn S. Tillotson	GST Micro LLC, 8356 Town Hall Court, Henrico, USA
Prof. Dr. Liangdong Guo	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Haifeng Wang	Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Dr. Harsharn Gill	RMIT University, Australia
Prof. Dr. Peter Heisig	University of Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Henry C. Lin	University of New Mexico, USA
Prof. Dr. Heribert Insam	Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technikerstraße 25d, Austria
Prof. Dr. Zhili He	Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dr. Hiroshi Yoneyama	Tohoku University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk van Elsas	University of Groningen, Netherlands
Dr. Janet Cox-Singh	University of St Andrews, UK
Dr. Julio Villena	Reference Centre for Lactobacilli (CERELA-CONICET), Argentina
Prof. Dr. Jean Armengaud	Université Paris‐Saclay, France
Dr. Jae Gyu Kim	Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, South Korea
Prof. Dr. Johannes F. Imhoff	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research GEOMAR, Germany
Prof. Dr. Juan M. Gonzalez	Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Spain
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wendland	Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany
Dr. Keivan Zandi	Emory University, USA
Prof. Dr. Khosrow Adeli	University Ave, Canada
Prof. Dr. Steffen Kolb	Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Kris Audenaert	Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kutschera	Carnegie Institution, USA
Prof. Dr. Laurent Dufossé	Université de La Réunion, France
Prof. Dr. Lucio Capurso	San Filippo Neri Hospital, Italy
Prof. Dr. Chao Liang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Meng Li	Shenzhen University, China
Prof. Dr. Matthias Sipiczki	Debreceni Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary
Dr. Lisa Gorski	Agricultural Research Service, USA
Prof. Dr. He Liu	Jiangnan University, China
Prof. Dr. Luis F. Melo	University of Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Anders Løbner-Olesen	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Drago	University of Milan, Italy
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Morelli	Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Prof. Dr. Xuefeng LU	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Maurizio Ciani	Polytechnic University of Marche, Food, Industrial and Environmental Microbiology Lab. Via Brecce Bianche, Italy
Dr. Maddalena Rossi	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Prof. Dr. Marco Ventura	University of Parma, Italy
Prof. Dr. Mario Clerici	SM Nascente Scientific Institute, IRCCS, Don C Gnocchi Foundation, Italy
Prof. Dr. Markus M. Heimesaat	Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Martin Von Bergen	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Germany
Dr. Andrea Marzi	Laboratory of Virology, DIR, NIAID, NIH, 903 South 4th Street, USA
Prof. Dr. Matteo Bassetti	University of Genoa, Italy
Dr. Matteo Serino	Institut National de la Santé et de Recherche Médicale (INSERM), France
Dr. Matthias Labrenz	Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Germany
Dr. Lynne V. Mcfarland	University of Washington, USA
Prof. Dr. Jacob Bornstein	Bar Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Dr. Mark Obrenovich	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), USA
Dr. Garima Sharma	Kangwon National University, South Korea
Dr. Michael Jensen	Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr. Ludmila Chistoserdova	University of Washington, USA
Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Miyasaka	Sojo University, Japan
Dr. Mar Larrosa	Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Hijri	Université de Montréal, Canada
Prof. Dr. Nils Risgaard-Petersen	Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr. O. Roger Anderson	Columbia University, USA
Dr. Pankaj Trivedi	Colorado State University, USA
Dr. Paola Stefanelli	Regional Reference Laboratory and WHO collaborating centre for Polio, Italy
Prof. Dr. Paolo Visca	Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Dr. Pau Ferrer	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Dr. Paul M. Sharp	University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Dr. Peter Neubauer	Universität Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Peter Taylor	University College London, UK
Prof. Dr. Sangita Phadtare	Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, USA
Prof. Dr. Philippe Jacques	University of Liege, Belgium
Dr. Philippe Normand	Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France
Prof. Dr. Wei Qian	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Roger Pickup	Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Dr. Ricardo Amils	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Roberta Rizzo	University of Ferrara, Italy
Dr. Romain Briandet	French National Research Institute for Agriculture, France
Dr. R. Russell M. Paterson	University of Minho, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Hervé Alexandre	Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Dr. Ryo Inoue	Setsunan University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Saul Purton	University College London, UK
Dr. Isabelle J. Schalk	Université de Strasbourg, France
Prof. Dr. Senjie Lin	University of Connecticut, Groton, USA
Prof. Dr. Sisinthy Shivaji	Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, India
Prof. Dr. Simonetta Mattiucci	"Sapienza - University of Rome" and "Umberto I" University Hospital, Italy
Prof. Dr. Santiago Moreno	Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Seraphim Papanikolaou	Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Pöggeler	Georg-August-University, Germany
Dr. Stan Kubow	McGill University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Stefano Veraldi	University of Milan, Italy
Prof. Dr. Sven Hammerschmidt	University of Greifswald, Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas Proft	The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Dr. Tjip S. van der Werf	University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Torsten Thomas	The University of New South Wales, Australia
Prof. Dr. Yong Tao	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bjarnsholt	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Tetsuro Ikegami	The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Varzakas	University of Peloponnese, Greece
Dr. Tom Gill	Dalhousie University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Tom Van de Wiele	Ghent University, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Tim Tolker-Nielsen	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Uwe Groß	University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Uri Gophna	Tel Aviv University, Israel
Prof. Dr. Ute Römling	Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Sweden
Dr. Vijay Pancholi	The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center USA
Dr. Vittorio Capozzi	Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Dr. Yu Wang	Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, China
Prof. Dr. Shuo Wang	Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr.Yong Wang	Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Dr. Xiaolei Wu	Peking University, China
Prof. Dr. Xin Zhao	McGill University, Canada
Prof. Dr. Pablo Yagupsky	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Prof. Dr. Bo Yu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Dr. Zhigang Zhang	Yunnan University, China
Prof. Dr. Zhi Liu	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

The latest Stanford rankings reflect the considerable influence and research excellence of scientists who are committed to furthering their knowledge for the benefit of the world.

We congratulate our Editorial Board Members on their excellent achievement and thank them for their immense contribution to the development of Microorganisms.