The Stanford University annual rankings are a widely recognised source of global rankings of the top 2% scientists in the world.

Among the 223,252 scientists listed in the Stanford University top 2 per cent of scientists globally, India boasts 5,352, an increase from 4,635 in 2023

The subject-wise bibliometric analysis was conducted by a team of scientists from SU and the Elsevier BV- a leading scientific publisher; scientists have been classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields,