Korea Maritime and Ocean University places 9 researchers on world's top 2% scientists list

Korea Maritime and Ocean University announced Wednesday that nine of its researchers have been included in the 2026 World's Top 2% Scientists list, published by Stanford University and academic publisher Elsevier.

Seven researchers were named in the career-impact category and five in the single-year category. Professors Chae Gyu-jeong, Heo Jun-ho and Shim Do-sik were selected in both categories.

The career-impact category includes Professor Heo Jun-ho (data science), Professor Chae Gyu-jeong (environmental engineering), Professor Cho Seong-hwan (marine biotechnology and fisheries bioengineering), Professor Choi Cheol-young (marine biotechnology and fisheries bioengineering), Professor Seo Young-wan (marine biotechnology and fisheries bioengineering), Professor Jeon Tae-in (electrical and electronic engineering) and Professor Shim Do-sik (marine advanced materials convergence engineering).

The single-year category includes Professor Chae Gyu-jeong, Professor Heo Jun-ho, Professor Shim Do-sik, Professor Seo Dong-wook (radio frequency and mobility convergence engineering) and Dr. Dipak A. Jadhav (research professor, environmental engineering).

The list was released Oct. 7 by a research team led by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis of Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. It covers researchers who rank in the top 2% within any of 174 subfields or among the top 100,000 globally based on a composite citation metric.

The rankings are divided into two categories: career-impact, which measures citation performance across a researcher's entire career, and single-year, which tracks citations received during 2025. Korea Maritime and Ocean University also had nine researchers selected in last year's edition of the list.