Twenty-five academics from the University of Nicosia (UNIC) are on the latest Stanford University list of the world’s most-cited scientists, published on 7 October, the university said.
Twenty-two feature in the single-year ranking for 2025, up from 20 in the previous edition, and 15 in the career-long ranking. Twelve appear in both.
The annual list, formally titled ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators’, is commonly known as the Stanford list of the world’s top 2 per cent of scientists. It is produced by Elsevier with Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University. It measures scientific impact using indicators including citations, the h-index, the co-authorship-adjusted hm-index and a composite score. It covers 20 major fields and 174 subfields, and ranks researchers both on their career-long work and on their performance in a single year.
The UNIC academics on the list, in alphabetical order, are:
- Professor Andreou, Eleni P., School of Life and Health Sciences (by career and year)
- Professor Antonakakis, Nikolaos, School of Business (by career and year)
- Professor Apostolou, Menelaos, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (by year)
- Professor Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam, Medical School (by career and year)
- Professor Davidson, Michael D., Medical School (by career and year)
- Professor Douroumis, Dennis, School of Life and Health Sciences (by career and year)
- Professor Drikakis, Dimitris, School of Sciences and Engineering and Medical School (by career and year)
- Professor Ferreira, Nuno Bravo, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (by year)
- Associate Professor Gentekaki, Eleni, School of Veterinary Medicine (by year)
- Professor Georgalas, Christos C., Medical School (by career and year)
- Professor Karanis, Panagiotis, Medical School (by career and year)
- Professor Kararigas, Georgios, Medical School (by year)
- Professor Karayiannis, Peter, Medical School (by career)
- Associate Professor Korakakis, Vasileios, School of Life and Health Sciences (by year)
- Professor Makridakis, Spyros G., School of Business (by career and year)
- Professor Makridis, Christos, School of Business (by year)
- Professor Mavromoustakis, Constandinos X., School of Sciences and Engineering (by career)
- Professor Nicolaïdes, Andrew N., Medical School (by career and year)
- Associate Professor Panagouli, Eleni, Medical School (by year)
- Professor Papaneophytou, Christos P., School of Life and Health Sciences (by year)
- Professor Sahalos, John N., Adjunct Faculty (by career)
- Professor Sullman, Mark J.M., School of Humanities and Social Sciences (by career and year)
- Professor Thrassou, Alkis, School of Business (by year)
- Associate Professor Voskarides, Konstantinos, Medical School and School of Veterinary Medicine (by year)
- Professor Vrontis, Demetris, School of Business (by career and year)
The university was recently placed in the 501-550 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.
