The annual list of the top 2% of the most cited scientists, compiled by Elsevier – one of the largest scientific publishing houses in the world, includes the names of eight scientists of Tomsk State University. Below is the 2024 ranking. According to the second indicator – career-long data – 12 scientists who currently work at TSU or have collaborated with the university before joined the top 2%.

The top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world for 2024 includes:

1.    Evgeny Chulkov, leading research fellow at the Laboratory of Nanostructured Surfaces and Coatings of TSU Research Division;

2.    Yuri Chumlyakov, professor, head of the Laboratory of Physics of High-Strength Crystals of the Siberian Institute of Physics and Technology, TSU;

3.    Vladimir Ivanchenko, leading research fellow and part-time leading researcher at the Laboratory for Analysis of High Energy Physics Data, Faculty of Physics, TSU;

4.    Yuri Kistenev, head of the Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning of TSU Research Division, part-time professor of the Department of General and Experimental Physics of the Faculty of Physics and leading researcher of the Laboratory of Ecophotonics of TSU Research Division;

5.    Julia Krzyszkowska, professor at the Department of Natural Compounds, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, concurrently Head of the Laboratory of Translational Cellular and Molecular Biomedicine, Faculty of Chemistry, TSU;

6.    Oleg Pokrovsky, leading research fellow at the Laboratory of Biogeochemical and Remote Methods of Environmental Monitoring, Biological Institute, TSU, scientist at the Midi-Pyrenees Observatory (Toulouse, France);

7.    Mikhail Sheremet, professor, head of the Research Laboratory for Modeling the Processes of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, concurrently head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, TSU;

8.    Vladimir Tyuterev, professor, leading research fellow at the Laboratory of Quantum Mechanics of Molecules and Radiation Processes of TSU Research Division.

According to career-long data – from the first publication until the end of 2024 – the top 2% of the new ranking also includes scientists who previously worked at TSU: Viktor Atuchin, Alexey Bashkatov, Iosif Bukhbinder and Lev Zuev.

The selection was among the top 100,000 C-rated scientists (C-score, with and without self-citation) and with citation rates in the top 2% in the relevant scientific field. The new version of the ranking is based on Scopus data from August 1, 2025, updated until the end of 2024, and includes 22 scientific areas and 176 subcategories.

A complete list of the most cited scientists in the world according to Elsevier can be found here.