Nine researchers from the University of Peradeniya are among the top 2% of world scientists based on the ranking by the September 2022 edition of Stanford University. The University of Peradeniya is proud to be the university with the highest number of world 2% researchers in the country.

September 2022 edition of the top 100,000 scientists by c-score or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field published by Stanford University and Elsevier BV is out now. It can be downloaded from https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4. According to the new data based more academics from the University of Peradeniya is captured under the criteria the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field.