Stanford University and the Elsevier Data Repository recently released the World’s Top 2% Scientists List 2024. Among the listed 377 scholars in literary studies, four are Chinese. Professor Nie Zhenzhao from the Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies ranks first among the Chinese scholars. Meanwhile, the Data Repository also released the World’s Top 2% Scientists List for Career-long Impact, which includes 377 scholars in literary studies. Professor Nie is one of the two listed Chinese scholars.

The World’s Top 2% Scientists List is based on a composite indicator (c-score) of the Scopus Data Repository calculated from six citation metrics: total citations (NC), H-index (H), Hm-index (H-index adjusted for the number of authors), citations to single-author papers (NCS), citations to single or first-author papers (NCSF), and citations to single, first, or last-author papers (NCSFL). The top 2% scientists have been selected from nearly seven million worldwide, covering 22 fields and 174 subfields. The c-score provides a comprehensive and objective measure of scientists’ long-term research performance and impact. The Career-long Impact List assesses the overall performance of scientists throughout their careers, while the Single-Year List focuses more on academic impact in the previous year. Inclusion in the list indicates that the scientists have a profound global impact in their research fields.

Appendix: Professor Nie’s Biography:

Professor NIE Zhenzhao FBA MAE is Professor and Yunshan Chair of World Literature and Languages at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Previously he was a Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the university-chartered Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of World Literature at Zhejiang University, where he became Emeritus in 2022. He is currently President of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism, and has consistently been designated by Elsevier as a Most Cited Chinese Researcher, as well as appears in both the career-long and single-year categories of Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists List. He is an International Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea.