We are extremely pleased to announce that Vasco T. Vasconcelos, LASIGE’s integrated researcher, has been featured on the list of the top 2% most cited author throughout his career, in his research area: Reliable Software Systems.

We are also very pleased to congratulate Alysson Bessani and Cátia Pesquita, LASIGE’s integrated researchers, for being recognized as the top 2% most cited authors in 2020, in their research areas: Networking & Telecommunications; Health and Biomedical Informatics, Data and Systems Intelligence, respectively.

This list, of the top 2% (for career and single year) of the world’s most-cited scientists, is compiled by the prestigious Stanford University, California, USA.

This database includes the top 2% scientists of the world from different fields on the basis of standardized citation indications and was created by experts at Stanford University, led by Dr. John Ioannidis. It includes information on the number of citations, H-Index, co-authorship, a composite indicator, and it is also based on data from Scopus that ranks journals and gives a citation index. The results were recently published in Elsevier BV.