Professors Livia Puljak, Hrvoje Štefančić, and Tomislav Domazet-Lošo from CUC Ranked Among the Top 2% of the World’s Most Cited Scientists for 2024

On Friday, 19 September 2025, Stanford University published the eighth edition of its study on the world’s most highly cited scientists, according to which Professors Livia Puljak, Hrvoje Štefančić, and Tomislav Domazet-Lošo from the Catholic University of Croatia are among the top 2% of the world’s most cited researchers. The current edition of the study, August 2025 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, provides data on the most influential scientists in 2024 as well as throughout their entire careers.

According to this year’s edition, Prof. Livia Puljak appears on both lists: she ranks among the top 1% of scientists with the highest citation impact for 2024 and among the top 2% throughout her career. Prof. Hrvoje Štefančić is listed among the top 2% of the most influential scientists for his entire career, while Prof. Tomislav Domazet-Lošo is ranked among the top 2% for the year 2024.

The analysis of global citation impact has been conducted since 2019 by a research team at Stanford University in California, led by renowned Professor John P. A. Ioannidis. Two complete lists of the world’s most highly cited scientists are available on the website of the publisher Elsevier.

This publication includes a publicly accessible database containing detailed information on top scientists, with standardized data on citations, the h-index, the hm-index adjusted for co-authorship, citations of papers across author positions, and a composite citation impact indicator.

In this eighth edition of the analysis, 129 scientists affiliated with Croatia are listed among the top 2% for 2024, while 96 are listed for their entire career.