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What “top 2%” means here

“Top 2%” is a percentile rank of 2% or above within a Science-Metrix sub-field. The other route onto the list is a top-100,000 global composite score (c-score).

As the dataset’s authors put it: “If an author is not on the list, it is simply because the composite indicator value was not high enough to appear on the list. It does not mean that the author does not do good work.” About & methodology →