Bea Allyson Alimangohan

Elsevier's Scopus database recognized The 2024 Stanford University List, which showed 26 Filipino scientists including 8 Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) faculty in the ‘World's Top 2% Scientists’ in recent years.


ADMU’s official student publication, The GUIDON announced in their facebook page their faculty members that were notably included in the list on November 1.

Their faculty members, Assistant Vice President for Research, Creative Work, and Innovation Filomeno Aguilar Jr., PhD for Historical Studies, Development Studies Department Professor Jayeel Cornelio, PhD for Philosophy and Theology, and Research Fellow Gideon Lasco, MD, PhD for Public Health and Health Services were on the list.

Gregory Bankoff and Jose Trinidad, as well as Gianna Amul, Arianna Amit, and Christian Pepito, were acknowledged for their contributions to social sciences research and clinical medicine. 

Other Filipino scientist abroad were also recognized, they are Ramon Gustilo, Rigoberto Advincula, Carlito Lebrilla, Michael Purugganan, Josefino Comiso, Eduardo Padlan, Baldomero Olivera, and Enrique Ostrea.

National Scientists Bienvenido Juliano and Carmencita Padilla and National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Academicians Jose Cruz Jr., Glenn Gregorio, Antonio Miguel Dans, Allan Bernardo, Jurgenne Primavera, and Raymond Tan, were included on the list.

Also in the World's Top 2% Scientist are John Aruta, Kathleen Aviso, Alonzo Gabriel, Aristotle Ubando, Mary Ann Lansang, Lanndon Ocampo, Ourlad Tantengco, and Marie Lapitan.

Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. congratulated the Filipino scientists that were included in the list, “We are proud of their scientific achievements – truly world class.”

Stanford University intended to use the database to create a uniform method of recognizing scientists who have made a substantial contribution to their respective fields.  

This include c-score metrics by John Ioannidis to identify the rankings, such as total number of citations with or without self-citations.

Scientists are grouped into 22 main fields and 176 sub-fields, and only those in the top 2% are acknowledged on the list.