Romania's Top 2% Scientists 2024: Career-Long List

Romania has 188 scientists on the 2024 career-long Top 2% list, up 11.2% from 169 in 2023. That places Romania 47th in the world by number of listed scientists. Academia Româna has the most listed scientists (25), followed by University Politehnica of Bucharest (18).

Single Year

257

+19 (+8.0%) vs 2023

Career Data

188

+19 (+11.2%) vs 2023

World rank by count

#47

No change vs 2023

Institutes

-4 (-8.2%) vs 2023

Scientists in Romania on the list, by year

The career-long count has grown 88% since 2020.

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+33.0%

2022+11.3%

2023+14.2%

2024+11.2%

2025+17.0%

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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	3,001	RJ Roncali, Jean	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Organic Chemistry	Rank 77
2	9,302	NP Nijkamp, Peter	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza	Urban & Regional Planning	Rank 11
3	10,392	SM Sarstedt, Marko	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Marketing	Rank 19
4	13,338	PI Pop, I.	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 89
5	20,388	PG Păun, Gheorghe	Academia Româna	Computation Theory & Mathematics	Rank 51
6	23,295	MD Mihalache, Dumitru	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 176
7	24,908	BV Badescu, Viorel	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Energy	Rank 278
8	26,982	GM Gavrilescu, Maria	Academia Româna	Environmental Engineering	Rank 85
9	28,029	BI Boldea, Ion	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 64
10	37,041	MM Marin, Marin	Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 235
11	37,114	AM Andruh, Marius	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 214
12	38,654	RV Radulescu, Vicentiu	University of Craiova	General Mathematics	Rank 137
13	43,065	HT Harko, Tiberiu	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 646
14	44,662	CI Caprini, Irinel	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 671
15	48,753	LJ Lidsey, James E.	Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 752
16	49,657	VC Vasile, Cornelia	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 445
17	50,039	SM Simionescu, Maya	Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology Nicolae Simionescu	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,015
18	50,389	ID Ieşan, D.	Academia Româna	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 332
19	52,469	DE Dragan, Ecaterina Stela	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 465
20	57,118	Cormos, Calin Cristian	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Energy	Rank 720
21	59,173	BV Barbu, Viorel	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza	General Mathematics	Rank 244
22	59,443	GA Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 507
23	60,899	SN Shahzad, Naseer	Academia Româna	Applied Mathematics	Rank 128
24	66,896	PV Parvulescu, Vasile	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Physical Chemistry	Rank 240
25	72,616	DM Diudea, Mircea Vasile	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	General Mathematics	Rank 331
26	73,095	VD Vinereanu, Dragos	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 2,525
27	74,445	HI Haiduc, Ionel	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 426
28	75,892	Berinde, Vasile	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 353
29	78,533	AI Agache, Ioana	Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov	Allergy	Rank 236
30	81,716	BP Budrugeac, Petru	National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies Romania	Physical Chemistry	Rank 296
31	82,433	ND Niculescu, Dragoș Ștefan	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 707
32	83,884	VS van Staden, Jacobus Frederick	National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 595
33	84,204	PL Popescu, Laurentiu M.	Victor Babes National Institute	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 3,281
34	85,983	LG Lazaroiu, George	Universitatea Spiru Haret	Business & Management	Rank 911
35	87,724	MC Mortici, Cristinel	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 430
36	89,316	CV Chatterjee, Victor	Morsani College of Medicine	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,903
37	89,353	CA Covic, Adrian	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa din Iasi	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 979
38	94,939	DD David, Daniel	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Clinical Psychology	Rank 322
39	95,361	ML Marin, Liviu	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Applied Mathematics	Rank 200
40	99,747	DD Dragoman, D.	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Applied Physics	Rank 2,623
41	105,652	CT Chirila, Traian V.	George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 450
42	105,785	BÁ Baricz, Árpád	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	General Mathematics	Rank 549
43	107,058	ZN Zamfir, Nicolae Victor	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 1,688
44	107,129	CH Chiriac, H.	SM-S National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics	Applied Physics	Rank 2,839
45	109,506	Minea, Alina Adriana	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 771
46	115,145	AN Andrei, Neculai	Academia Româna	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Rank 214
47	118,709	SA Saftoiu, Adrian	Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie din Craiova	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 1,619
48	119,981	BE Brujan, Emil Alexandru	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 1,019
49	120,269	BN Bizon, Nicu	National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies	Energy	Rank 1,627
50	121,182	DM Datcu, Mihai	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 573
51	125,050	LV Lupei, V.	National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics	Applied Physics	Rank 3,371
52	135,323	CD Coltuc, Dinu	Universitatea Valahia din Targoviste	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,689
53	136,366	FC Fetecau, Constantin	Academia Româna	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 979
54	136,871	SI Sporea, Ioan	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes din Timisoara	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	Rank 1,216
55	138,022	BI Bica, Ioan	Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara	Polymers	Rank 1,245
56	138,418	BM Brebu, Mihai	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 1,250
57	145,836	Rusu, Eugen	Universitatea Dunarea de Jos din Galati	Energy	Rank 2,034
58	146,173	IL Ixaru, L. Gr	Academia Româna	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,303
59	150,048	MD Miheţ, Dorel	Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara	General Mathematics	Rank 894
60	151,478	Oroian, Mircea	Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava	Food Science	Rank 836
61	153,187	PA Postelnicu, Adrian	Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 1,111
62	155,825	Precup, Radu Emil	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 3,128
63	156,409	Vodnar, Dan Cristian	Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara din Cluj-Napoca	Food Science	Rank 871
64	158,653	SI Sarbu, Ioan	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Energy	Rank 2,228
65	159,129	VR Vatavu, Radu Daniel	Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 3,185
66	159,832	CJ Calderon-Moreno, Jose M.	Academia Româna	Materials	Rank 2,222
67	159,946	OS Oprea, Stefan	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 1,418
68	164,623	PR Prăvălie, Remus	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,234
69	165,426	SI Spiridon, Iuliana	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 1,469
70	167,280	CO Carp, Oana	Academia Româna	Physical Chemistry	Rank 603
71	167,657	GD Ghilencea, D. M.	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,667
72	171,149	ML Mitoseriu, Liliana	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza	Materials	Rank 2,375
73	172,170	AS Antoniu, Sabina	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa din Iasi	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 1,651
74	172,310	LV Lazăr, Veronica	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Microbiology	Rank 4,152
75	172,959	CR Costache, Romulus	Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 844
76	173,402	RI Rus, Ioan A.	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	General Mathematics	Rank 1,085
77	176,452	AI Ardelean, I.	Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca	Applied Physics	Rank 4,828
78	179,360	GM Gavrilas, Mihai	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 558
79	180,781	DP Dita, P.	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,852
80	181,016	CS Coseri, Sergiu	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry	Polymers	Rank 1,634
81	182,534	MM Mihăilescu, Mihai	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 1,174
82	187,345	SS Stoica, Sabin	International Centre for Advanced Training and Research in Physics	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 2,959
83	194,784	LC Lascu, Cristian Vasile	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 611
84	197,276	SO Sima, O.	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 3,120
85	200,564	BE Burzo, Emil	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Applied Physics	Rank 5,528
86	202,089	MV Marinca, Vasile	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	General Physics	Rank 1,306
87	202,093	DD Dubina, Dan	Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara	Civil Engineering	Rank 463
88	203,623	SS Stefan-Van Staden, Raluca Ioana	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 1,668
89	204,568	PV Popa, Valentin I.	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI	Polymers	Rank 1,849
90	205,996	SR Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Radu	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 1,265
91	207,048	HS Hostiuc, Sorin	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Carol Davila din Bucuresti	Legal & Forensic Medicine	Rank 82
92	207,695	PD Petcu, Dana	Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 4,253
93	210,511	VD Vizireanu, Dragoș Nicolae	University Politehnica of Bucharest	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 2,069
94	212,150	CI Ciucanu, Ionel	Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 1,756
95	213,546	DD Delion, D. S.	Universitatea din Bucuresti	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 3,352
96	215,005	AC Apetrei, Constantin	Universitatea Dunarea de Jos din Galati	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 1,786
97	215,441	GS Gal, Sorin G.	Academia Româna	General Mathematics	Rank 1,499
98	215,723	Iliescu, Ciprian	Academia Româna	Applied Physics	Rank 5,988
99	218,535	CV Craciun, Valentin	Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Applied Physics	Rank 6,055
100	223,360	PL Pintilie, L.	Institut de Physique des Matériaux, Bucarest-Magurele	Applied Physics	Rank 6,208
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Romania are in the 2024 Stanford Top 2% list?

257 scientists affiliated with Romania are on the 2024 single-year list, and 188 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2024 career-long list, Academia Româna has the most listed scientists from Romania, with 25. It is followed by University Politehnica of Bucharest with 18.

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

On the career-long list, Romania went from 100 scientists in 2020 to 188 in 2024, a change of +88.0%.

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.