Four Rutgers School of Nursing faculty members are included in Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists List 2024. First published in 2019 and updated annually, the Stanford list was created to provide a standardized way to recognize scientists who have made a significant impact on their respective fields through their widely cited works. It’s considered by many to be the most prestigious and influential list of its type. The Rutgers School of Nursing faculty included in the 2024 update are:

• Jill Cox (PhD, RN, APN-c, CWOCN, FAAN), clinical professor
• Caroline Dorsen (PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN), associate dean of clinical partnerships and professor
• Susan Salmond (EdD, RN, FAAN, ANEF), executive vice dean and professor
• Angela Starkweather (PhD, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN), dean and professor

The Top 2% list is created using data from Scopus, a comprehensive database that provides access to abstracts and citations for peer-reviewed literature and web sources. The 2024 list ranks top-cited scientists for career-long and single recent year impact of their scholarly work. Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields, such as biomedical research, clinical medicine, public health & health services, and 174 subfields, including nursing. The list selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by their composite citation score (c-score) (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. The career-long database includes 195,605 scientists and 200,409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset. The current ranking is based on the August 1, 2024 snapshot from Scopus, updated to the end of the citation year 2023. This work uses Scopus data provided by Elsevier through ICSR Lab.

The presence of four Rutgers School of Nursing faculty on this prestigious list reflects not only the extraordinary influence of each individual scholar but also the School of Nursing’s outstanding commitment to advancing nursing science that improves lives. The school educates and mentors aspiring nurse scientists through its PhD in Nursing program and recently established the Center for Health Equity and Systems Research to foster research that positively impacts policy and practice.