Ioannidis et al. (2019) analyzed citation metrics to produce global rankings of scholars. Each year, typically in October, updated rankings of the top 2% of researchers are released as an Excel file available online. The data reported here is derived from the Authors_singleyr files.
Year: Indicates the publication year of the Excel file. For example, a file labeled “2023” presents citation metrics based on data from the 2022 calendar year.
My Rank (World): Corresponds to the “rank” variable provided in column V of the Excel file.
Version (Year) My Rank Number of My World My Rank Number of
(World) Scholars Ranking (%) (Korea) Korean Scholars
(Worldwide) in Top 2%
Version 7 (2024) 49,871 10,257,575 0.49% 393 3,499
Version 6 (2023) 69,451 9,617,763 0.72% 604 3,240
Version 4-5 (2022) 52,610 9,071,122 0.58% 388 2,903
Version 3 (2021) 43,112 8,547,891 0.50% 276 2,715
Version 2 (2020) 37,520 7,924,604 0.47% 248 2,139
Version 1 (2019) 26,201 6,880,389 0.38% 127 971