Institute of Information Technology researchers ranked among the world's top scientists

Employees of the Institute of Information Technology under the Ministry of Science and Education, Corresponding Member of ANAS Ramiz Aliguliyev and Chief Researcher and Associate Professor Fargana Abdullayeva, have been included in Stanford University's list of the “World's Top 2% Scientists” in the field of artificial intelligence. The renowned Azerbaijani scientists were selected from among 517,648 specialists based on their scientific achievements and citation metrics.

The Institute reported that Ramiz Aliguliyev has been included in this ranking list for seven consecutive years. The scientist was first represented in the single-year impact list of this evaluation in 2020. In 2021, 2022, and 2023, he appeared on both the single-year and career-long impact lists. Continuing his successful scientific endeavors, R. Aliguliyev firmly maintained his position in the World Scientists' career-long impact ranking in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

As in the previous year, Fargana Abdullayeva has successfully secured a place on the single-year impact list of the “World's Top 2% Scientists”. The single-year impact list measures scientists' research output and influence strictly over the past year (the evaluation year). The primary objective is to demonstrate how active a researcher was during that specific year and the level of attention, specifically the citation dynamics, their work received.

The career-long impact list, on the other hand, evaluates a scientist's overall research achievements across their entire career, from their earliest publications to the most recent evaluation year. Because entering this list requires years of accumulated experience and a sustained citation base, inclusion is considered a strong metric of high academic stability and consistency.

When compiling both lists, scientists are not simply ranked by citation count alone. To prevent artificial inflation through self-citations or citation rings, a composite indicator consisting of six key metrics (total citations, H-index, co-authorship-adjusted H-index, and citations to papers as a single, first, or last author) is used. Scientists whose composite scores place them in the top 2% across 22 major scientific fields and 174 sub-fields worldwide are included in the ranking.

It should be noted that this international ranking, published by Elsevier and prepared by Stanford University researchers, is compiled based on the scientometric indicators of researchers indexed in the Scopus database.

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