On October 4, 2023, Elsevier and the team of Professor John R.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University released "World's Top 2% Scientists".

The list selects the world's Top 2% scientists from 22 fields and 174 subdisciplines based on a comprehensive assessment of nearly 7 million scientists based on the Scopus database based on the number of citations, h-index, co-author-adjusted hm-index, and citations to articles by sole or first author. The list is designed to provide a measure of a scientist's long-term scientific performance and to provide a more objective and realistic reflection of a scientist's output and academic impact.

The lists include the Lifetime Science Impact List which focuses on the impact of a scientist's entire academic career to date, and the Annual Science Impact List which focuses on academic accomplishments in the year 2022.

Lifetime Science Impact List (in order of name)

Annual Science Impact List (in order of name)