Researchers from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU) have been ranked among the world's most-cited scientists according to the prestigious international Stanford–Elsevier Global Top 2% Scientists database. Each year, the ranking identifies researchers with the greatest citation impact based on data from the Scopus database. The assessment takes into account not only citation counts and the impact of scientific publications, but also co-authorship and individual author contributions. The inclusion of CZU researchers confirms the international reach and significance of their scientific work.
The latest edition of the ranking, published on 7 October 2026, features 23 researchers affiliated with CZU. As in previous years, the list of CZU's top ten researchers is headed by Professor Jan Vymazal from the Department of Applied Ecology at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. He has long been the most-cited Czech scientist in environmental science and is ranked 1,245th worldwide.
TOP 10 researchers affiliated with the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague according to the Stanford University ranking:
- Prof. Jan Vymazal – Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Ecology
- Assoc. Prof. Josef Maroušek – University of South Bohemia; publication affiliation with the Faculty of Environmental Sciences
- Dr. Andrew M. Liebhold – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Forest Risk Research Department, FISC
- Assoc. Prof. Jan Kyselý – Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling
- Prof. Rajesh Kumar Mishra – Faculty of Engineering, Department of Material Science and Manufacturing Technology
- Prof. Michael Komárek – Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geoenvironmental Sciences
- Dr. Milan Skalický – Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology
- Dr. Jan Altman – Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology
- Assoc. Prof. Zhongbing Chen – Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Ecology
- Dr. Sherif T. S. Hassan – Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Applied Ecology; publication affiliation
The Stanford–Elsevier Global Top 2% Scientists is an international bibliometric ranking that identifies scientists with the greatest citation impact worldwide. It is based on a methodology developed by researchers at Stanford University and uses data from the Scopus scientific database. It aims to identify researchers whose publications have an exceptional influence on subsequent scientific research, as measured by citations of their scholarly work.