Elsevier BV has created a publicly available database of over 100,000 top-scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least 5 papers. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2020. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Elsevier BV – August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” (digitalcommonsdata.com)

The released list contains top 2% scientists, however, Prof. Rafiee was ranked among the world top 1% scientists and highly cited researchers in the discipline of Materials in that list. Moreover, Prof. Rafiee was included in both single-year and career-long lists.