Romania's Top 2% Scientists 2023

Romania has 238 scientists on the 2023 single-year Top 2% list, up 13.9% from 209 in 2022. That places Romania 45th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universitatea din Bucuresti has the most listed scientists (20), followed by Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti (18).

Single Year

238

+29 (+13.9%) vs 2022

Career Data

169

+21 (+14.2%) vs 2022

World rank by count

#45

No change vs 2022

Institutes

+3 (+5.5%) vs 2022

Scientists in Romania on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 62% since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+29.3%

2022+10.0%

2023+13.9%

2024+8.0%

2025+14.4%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	147		100
2021	190	+29.3%	133	+33.0%
2022	209	+10.0%	148	+11.3%
2023	238	+13.9%	169	+14.2%
2024	257	+8.0%	188	+11.2%
2025	294	+14.4%	220	+17.0%

Top 10 institutes in Romania

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Rank in Romania	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	8,036	GA Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 240
2	8,305	MM Marin, M.	Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov	Applied Mathematics	Rank 29
3	8,489	GM Gavrilescu, Maria	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Environmental Engineering	Rank 38
4	10,843	PI Pop, Ioan	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 98
5	11,627	MD Mihalache, Dumitru	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 77
6	11,794	CR Costache, Romulus	Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 112
7	11,928	RJ Roncali, Jean	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Organic Chemistry	Rank 157
8	13,297	LG Lazaroiu, George	Universitatea Spiru Haret	Business & Management	Rank 351
9	14,334	AI Agache, Ioana	Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov	Allergy	Rank 28
10	15,487	VC Vasile, Cornelia	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 118
11	16,384	HT Harko, Tiberiu	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 169
12	17,048	RV Radulescu, Vicentiu D.	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 58
13	18,907	EG Etiope, Giuseppe	Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia, Rome	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 300
14	19,237	BV Badescu, Viorel	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Energy	Rank 423
15	20,547	NE Nica, Elvira	Bucharest University of Economic Studies	Business & Management	Rank 514
16	20,780	Ducea, Mihai N.	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 334
17	23,826	Minea, Alina Adriana	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 239
18	25,486	DE Dragan, Ecaterina Stela	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 194
19	25,924	PR Pravalie, Remus	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Environmental Sciences	Rank 411
20	26,221	Vodnar, Dan Cristian	Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara din Cluj-Napoca	Food Science	Rank 222
21	27,085	Cormos, Calin Cristian	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Energy	Rank 616
22	28,949	PG Paun, Gheorghe	Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy	Computation Theory & Mathematics	Rank 59
23	34,635	Precup, Radu Emil	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,141
24	34,836	AC Albulescu, Claudiu Tiberiu	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Economics	Rank 472
25	37,993	DD David, Daniel	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Clinical Psychology	Rank 185
26	39,580	VD Vinereanu, Dragos	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,203
27	41,589	Berinde, Vasile	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 176
28	42,421	BS Bungau, Simona Gabriela	Universitatea din Oradea, Facultatea de Medicina	Materials	Rank 748
29	43,248	BI Boldea, Ion	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 134
30	43,562	PG Popescu, Gheorghe H.	Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University	Energy	Rank 1,032
31	46,528	Oroian, Mircea	Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava	Food Science	Rank 441
32	46,579	SI Sarbu, Ioan	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Energy	Rank 1,119
33	47,737	ID Iesan, Dorin	Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics (Romanian Academy)	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 459
34	49,096	PB Popescu, Bogdan A.	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,428
35	49,164	BI Berindan-Neagoe, Ioana	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Iuliu Hatieganu din Cluj-Napoca	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,730
36	49,165	CI Caprini, Irinel	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 563
37	49,731	Rusu, Eugen	Universitatea Dunarea de Jos din Galati	Energy	Rank 1,184
38	51,133	VR Vatavu, Radu Daniel	Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,654
39	51,560	HS Hostiuc, Sorin	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Legal & Forensic Medicine	Rank 15
40	51,745	Dabija, Dan Cristian	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	Business & Management	Rank 1,118
41	52,183	AA Androniceanu, Armenia	Bucharest University of Economic Studies	Economics	Rank 673
42	53,859	AM Andruh, Marius	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 192
43	53,899	BM Brebu, Mihai	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 463
44	56,842	IL Ionescu, Lumini?a	Universitatea Spiru Haret	Business & Management	Rank 1,207
45	57,303	PV Parvulescu, Vasile I.	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Physical Chemistry	Rank 227
46	57,428	CA Covic, Adrian	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa din Iasi	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 420
47	58,681	BN Bizon, Nicu	Universitatea din Pitesti	Energy	Rank 1,417
48	60,285	CO Chioncel, Ovidiu	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,722
49	63,028	BM Butnariu, Monica	University of Life Sciences “King Mihai I” from Timisoara	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 2,095
50	63,473	BÁ Baricz, Árpád	Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai	General Mathematics	Rank 280
51	66,323	SI Spiridon, Iuliana	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 599
52	68,353	NM Neagu, Monica	Victor Babes National Institute	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,474
53	68,739	AC Ancuti, Codruta O.	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,203
54	68,976	LV Lazar, Veronica	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Microbiology	Rank 1,557
55	69,630	IL Ixaru, L. Gr	Academia Româna	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 791
56	69,690	RI Radu, Iulian	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa din Iasi	Education	Rank 703
57	71,821	SA Saftoiu, Adrian	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 795
58	72,453	Popescu, Carmen Mihaela	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 664
59	73,602	SM Simionescu, Mihaela	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Economics	Rank 897
60	75,633	BE Brujan, Emil Alexandru	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 526
61	76,453	BA Blaga, Adara M.	Universitatea de Vest din Timi?oara	General Mathematics	Rank 349
62	78,178	MI Mozos, Ioana	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes din Timisoara	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,837
63	78,952	CD Coltuc, Dinu	Universitatea Valahia din Targoviste	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,504
64	79,351	PM Popescu, Maria Cristina	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 748
65	81,639	BC Bratianu, Constantin	Bucharest University of Economic Studies	Business & Management	Rank 1,592
66	82,110	PV Popa, Valentin I.	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Polymers	Rank 773
67	84,180	MP Magdalena Pisoschi, Aurelia	Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice si Medicina Veterinara din Bucuresti	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 272
68	84,835	AC Ancuti, Cosmin	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,668
69	85,336	BL Bulgariu, Laura	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Environmental Engineering	Rank 513
70	87,849	Dippong, Thomas	Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca	Materials	Rank 1,683
71	89,034	AN Andrei, Neculai	Academia Româna	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Rank 160
72	89,360	CD Calina, Daniela	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Craiova	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 3,210
73	90,061	Dragut, Lucian	Universitatea de Vest din Timi?oara	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 811
74	90,690	AL Atanase, Leonard Ionut	Universitatea Apollonia	Polymers	Rank 856
75	92,412	BV Barbu, Viorel	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza	General Mathematics	Rank 424
76	93,759	DM David, Madalina Elena	Universitatea Valahia din Targoviste	Polymers	Rank 890
77	94,676	MA Mocan, Andrei	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Iuliu Hatieganu din Cluj-Napoca	Food Science	Rank 990
78	96,731	IR Ionescu, Radu Tudor	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 3,025
79	99,603	HG Huminic, Gabriela	Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 902
80	100,836	TS Talu, Stefan	Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca	Applied Physics	Rank 1,972
81	105,751	Linul, Emanoil	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Materials	Rank 2,065
82	105,870	BC Braicu, Cornelia	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Iuliu Hatieganu din Cluj-Napoca	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 3,775
83	109,808	FC Fetecau, Constantin	Academia Româna	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 993
84	110,271	CS Coseri, Sergiu	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 1,055
85	112,300	LA Lavric, Alexandru	Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 405
86	114,636	DZ Diaconeasa, Zorita	Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara din Cluj-Napoca	Food Science	Rank 1,222
87	115,640	JL Jäntschi, Lorentz	Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 824
88	117,633	AE Andronescu, Ecaterina	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Materials	Rank 2,343
89	118,469	MF Mihai, Florin Constantin	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza	Mining & Metallurgy	Rank 66
90	118,649	Rusu, Liliana	Universitatea Dunarea de Jos din Galati	Energy	Rank 3,027
91	118,830	VE Vamanu, Emanuel	Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice si Medicina Veterinara din Bucuresti	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 2,084
92	118,923	AI Arma?, Iuliana	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 203
93	119,968	CM Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Microbiology	Rank 2,725
94	120,870	AC Apetrei, Constantin	Universitatea Dunarea de Jos din Galati	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 880
95	122,148	AI Antoniac, Iulian	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Materials	Rank 2,446
96	124,454	SI Sporea, Ioan	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes din Timisoara	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	Rank 682
97	129,323	Gavriletea, Marius Dan	Universitatea Babes Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Business	Energy	Rank 3,334
98	129,615	Nour, Violeta	University of Craiova	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 2,281
99	129,925	LM Leordeanu, Marius	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 4,038
100	131,344	VM Visa, Maria	Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov	Environmental Engineering	Rank 831
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Romania are in the 2023 Stanford Top 2% list?

238 scientists affiliated with Romania are on the 2023 single-year list, and 169 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2023 single-year list, Universitatea din Bucuresti has the most listed scientists from Romania, with 20. It is followed by Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti with 18.

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

On the single-year list, Romania went from 147 scientists in 2020 to 238 in 2023, a change of +61.9%.

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.