France's Top 2% Scientists 2022

France has 5,509 scientists on the 2022 single-year Top 2% list, up 4.5% from 5,274 in 2021. That places France 8th in the world by number of listed scientists, up 1 place. Sorbonne Universite has the most listed scientists (362), followed by Universite Paris-Saclay (320).

Single Year

5,509

+235 (+4.5%) vs 2021

Career Data

6,284

+372 (+6.3%) vs 2021

World rank by count

up 1 place vs 2021

Institutes

842

-58 (-6.4%) vs 2021

Scientists in France on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 22% since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+17.1%

2022+4.5%

2023+1.4%

2024+3.5%

2025+1.8%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	4,502		5,048
2021	5,274	+17.1%	5,912	+17.1%
2022	5,509	+4.5%	6,284	+6.3%
2023	5,588	+1.4%	6,522	+3.8%
2024	5,781	+3.5%	6,921	+6.1%
2025	5,886	+1.8%	7,284	+5.2%

Top 10 institutes in France

By number of listed scientists

Single-year list2022

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1Sorbonne Universite362
2Universite Paris-Saclay320
3Université Paris Cité287
4Université de Montpellier222
5Universite Grenoble Alpes211
6Aix Marseille Université149
7Université de Bordeaux147
8CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique132
9Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1105
10Université de Lorraine95

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Single-year list2022

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Rank in France	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	50	KG Kroemer, Guido	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Immunology	Rank 1
2	85	BF Bray, Freddie	International Agency for Research on Cancer	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 3
3	116	TJ Tarascon, Jean Marie	Collège de France	Energy	Rank 3
4	238	RC Robert, Caroline	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 9
5	261	DS Dehaene, Stanislas	Collège de France	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 21
6	336	DA Dufresne, Alain	Universite Grenoble Alpes	Polymers	Rank 2
7	370	RD Raoult, Didier	Aix Marseille Université	Microbiology	Rank 5
8	423	TC Théry, Clotilde	Université PSL	Developmental Biology	Rank 16
9	553	TW Thuiller, Wilfried	Universite Grenoble Alpes	Ecology	Rank 14
10	628	AD Astruc, Didier	Université de Bordeaux	Organic Chemistry	Rank 4
11	664	SP Simon, Patrice	Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III	Energy	Rank 15
12	684	MS Mallat, Stéphane	Collège de France	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 37
13	781	LJ Lehn, Jean Marie	Université de Strasbourg	Organic Chemistry	Rank 7
14	850	DG de Gennes, Pierre Gilles	Collège de France	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 7
15	875	LP Lions, Pierre Louis	Université Paris-Dauphine	General Mathematics	Rank 2
16	878	SR Spitzer, Robert	Université de Bordeaux	Psychiatry	Rank 20
17	901	DH Duffau, Hugues	Hopital Gui de Chauliac	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 67
18	910	LM Loreau, Michel	CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	Ecology	Rank 25
19	965	FG Férey, Gérard	Institut Universitaire de France	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 4
20	974	ZL Zitvogel, Laurence	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Immunology	Rank 39
21	993	Crini, Grégorio	Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté	Polymers	Rank 5
22	1,092	QD Quéré, David	Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 10
23	1,100	KA Klamt, Andreas	Dassault Systemes	Chemical Physics	Rank 25
24	1,136	DT Damour, Thibault	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 8
25	1,170	KM Karplus, Martin	Université de Strasbourg	Chemical Physics	Rank 27
26	1,187	FJ Ferlay, Jacques	International Agency for Research on Cancer	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 33
27	1,364	AJ Antoni, J.	Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustiques	Acoustics	Rank 2
28	1,414	RN Roussel, Nicolas	Laboratoire Navier	Building & Construction	Rank 8
29	1,420	HB Henrissat, Bernard	Aix Marseille Université	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 35
30	1,612	LB Latour, Bruno	SciencesPo Paris	Science Studies	Rank 5
31	1,708	TJ Tirole, Jean	Toulouse school of Economics - Recherche - (TSE-R)	Economics	Rank 39
32	1,719	DM Dougados, Maxime	Université Paris Cité	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 12
33	1,735	MA Møller, A. P.	Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique et Évolution	Ecology	Rank 53
34	1,764	PL Peyrin-Biroulet, Laurent	CHU de Nancy	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 25
35	1,792	RM Rinaudo, Marguerite	Biomaterials Applications	Polymers	Rank 9
36	1,829	BP Bourdieu, Pierre	École Pratique des Hautes Études	Sociology	Rank 8
37	1,831	FA Fert, Albert	Universite Paris-Saclay	Applied Physics	Rank 58
38	1,910	JC Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta	EMLYON Business School	Business & Management	Rank 41
39	1,938	HM Humbert, Marc	Universite Paris-Saclay	Respiratory System	Rank 9
40	1,943	ZF Zannad, Faiez	Université de Lorraine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 56
41	1,974	BF Bach, Francis	École Normale Supérieure	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 87
42	1,980	SA Scalbert, Augustin	International Agency for Research on Cancer	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 9
43	1,993	ET Ebbesen, Thomas W.	Université de Strasbourg	Applied Physics	Rank 61
44	2,052	SJ Savéant, Jean Michel	Université Paris Cité	Energy	Rank 40
45	2,101	CG Chabrier, G.	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 7
46	2,243	WL Wacquant, Loïc	Centre de Sociologie Européenne	Sociology	Rank 10
47	2,469	FM Fink, Mathias	Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris	Acoustics	Rank 3
48	2,487	CJ Chave, Jérôme	Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III	Ecology	Rank 84
49	2,609	DB Dubois, Bruno	Sorbonne Universite	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 163
50	2,895	CJ Chaboche, J. L.	Département Matériaux et Structures	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 32
51	2,926	AD Annane, Djillali	Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 11
52	2,939	SB Staels, Bart	Université de Lille	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 79
53	3,023	LS Laurent, Stephane	AP-HP Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 97
54	3,048	LD Lichtenstein, Daniel	Hopital Ambroise Pare, Boulogne-Billancourt	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 12
55	3,053	VW Van Wassenhove, Luk N.	INSEAD, Europe	Operations Research	Rank 12
56	3,057	LS Lavorel, Sandra	Universite Grenoble Alpes	Ecology	Rank 94
57	3,166	CP Ciais, Philippe	Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 47
58	3,221	CJ Casanova, Jean Laurent	Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades	Immunology	Rank 90
59	3,227	CV Cottin, Vincent	Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1	Respiratory System	Rank 14
60	3,282	RJ Rodríguez-Carvajal, Juan	Institut Laue-Langevin	Applied Physics	Rank 89
61	3,357	CP Couvreur, Patrick	Universite Paris-Saclay	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 15
62	3,389	OM Oturan, Mehmet A.	Université Gustave Eiffel	Environmental Sciences	Rank 30
63	3,390	Fosso Wamba, Samuel	TBS Business School	Information Systems	Rank 15
64	3,396	CM Callon, Michel	Mines ParisTech	Science Studies	Rank 9
65	3,431	BF Berenbaum, Francis	Sorbonne Universite	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 25
66	3,469	SP Steg, P. Gabriel	Université Paris Cité	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 112
67	3,524	AV Aboyans, Victor	Universite de Limoges	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 113
68	3,591	EB Escudier, Bernard	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 122
69	3,629	GA Gandini, A.	Universite Grenoble Alpes	Polymers	Rank 17
70	3,647	BP Boileau, Pascal	Institut de chirurgie réparatrice locomoteur et du sport (ICR)	Orthopedics	Rank 8
71	3,656	PE Paradis, Emmanuel	CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 37
72	3,685	DC Delmas, Claude	Université de Bordeaux	Energy	Rank 72
73	3,689	BL Bocquet, Lydéric	École Normale Supérieure	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 28
74	3,738	VG Varoquaux, Gael	INRIA Saclay	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 245
75	3,746	PJ Pawlotsky, Jean Michel	Hôpital Henri Mondor	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 53
76	3,819	BP Bedossa, Pierre	Liverpat	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 54
77	3,861	VB Vellas, Bruno	CHU de Toulouse	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 252
78	3,878	NG Noctor, Graham	Institut Universitaire de France	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 35
79	3,913	FW Fridman, Wolf Herman	Sorbonne Universite	Immunology	Rank 105
80	3,989	RF Rousset, François	Université de Montpellier	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 42
81	3,994	JM Jeannerod, M.	Inserm	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 261
82	4,067	BJ Bousquet, Jean	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier	Allergy	Rank 6
83	4,134	RG Raposo, Graça	Université PSL	Developmental Biology	Rank 159
84	4,213	CL Castera, Laurent	Université Paris Cité	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 60
85	4,252	SM Schlumberger, Martin	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 89
86	4,278	MM Mohty, Mohamad	Sorbonne Universite	Immunology	Rank 119
87	4,282	FK Fizazi, Karim	Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 151
88	4,286	DB Dréno, Brigitte	Université de Nantes	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	Rank 6
89	4,287	MM Millan, Mark J.	Servier	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 18
90	4,343	MP Moreau, Philippe	Hôtel Dieu CHU de Nantes	Immunology	Rank 121
91	4,356	RC Rovelli, Carlo	Aix Marseille Université	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 39
92	4,419	Aghion, Philippe	Collège de France	Economics	Rank 76
93	4,421	BY Ben-Ari, Yehezkel	Campus scientifique de Luminy	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 290
94	4,467	LJ Lutz, Jean François	Université de Strasbourg	Polymers	Rank 21
95	4,470	DD Dubois, Didier	Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 152
96	4,473	CJ Changeux, Jean Pierre	Collège de France	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 296
97	4,497	TA Tarantola, A.	Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 62
98	4,573	LL Leibler, Ludwik	Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris	Polymers	Rank 22
99	4,618	DR Di Renzo, Marco	Universite Paris-Saclay	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 37
100	4,687	SC Serre, Christian	École Normale Supérieure	Organic Chemistry	Rank 74
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from France are in the 2022 Stanford Top 2% list?

5,509 scientists affiliated with France are on the 2022 single-year list, and 6,284 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in France has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2022 single-year list, Sorbonne Universite has the most listed scientists from France, with 362. It is followed by Universite Paris-Saclay with 320.

How has the number of Top 2% scientists in France changed since 2020?

On the single-year list, France went from 4,502 scientists in 2020 to 5,509 in 2022, a change of +22.4%.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.