CARE-C’s Dr George Zittis and Affiliates Listed Among Top 2% of World’s Leading Scientists

Dr George Zittis, Research Scientist at the Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C) of the Cyprus Institute, has recently been listed in the August 2024 update of the prestigious “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, compiled by Stanford University (USA) and published by Elsevier.

In addition to Dr Zittis, three CARE-C affiliate staff were also included in the list: Prof. Philippe Ciais, CARE-C Professor and Associate Director at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LCSE), Université Paris Saclay, Prof. Jos Lelieveld, CARE-C Professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and Prof. Andrea Pozzer, CyI Adjunct Associate Professor and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.

The database is based on an August 1, 2024, snapshot of Scopus data. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2023, and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2023. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, and the selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.

You can find the full list of researchers in the “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” here.