Kookmin University professor named to World's Top 2% Scientists list for 6th straight year
Choi Sung-jin, a professor at Kookmin University’s School of Electrical Engineering, has been named to the 2026 World’s Top 2% Scientists list jointly released by Stanford University and Elsevier. The university said Choi has been included in the list for six consecutive years. The list identifies the top 2 percent of researchers in their respective fields based on a comprehensive analysis of…
Professor Choi Sung-jin, from Kookmin University's School of Electrical Engineering, has once again been honored as part of the 2026 World’s Top 2% Scientists list, released jointly by Stanford University and Elsevier. This prestigious recognition is Choi's sixth consecutive year on the list. The list identifies the top 2 percent of researchers in their fields, evaluating their impact based on citation metrics and research output using data from Elsevier’s Scopus database.
Choi is featured in both the "career-long" category and the "single-year" category in the 2026 edition. In applied physics, Choi ranks in the top 1.3 percent globally for career-long impact and the top 0.9 percent for single-year impact. His academic influence is evident with over 25,000 citations and an h-index of 70 or higher, as reported by Google Scholar.
The h-index is a measure of both the productivity and citation impact of an author's published work.
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