Roma Tre in the Top 2% of the World's Most Influential Scientists: 62 Researchers in the Stanford Ranking

A total of 62 researchers from Roma Tre University have been included in the Top 2% Most Influential Scientists 2026, the prestigious ranking compiled by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier. This figure marks a further increase compared to previous years: there were 48 researchers in 2023, 54 in 2024 and 57 in 2025, confirming the University’s steady growth in both the quality and visibility of its scientific output.
The international ranking is based on a combination of bibliometric indicators extracted from Scopus, one of the world's leading citation databases and identifies the top 2% most influential researchers worldwide across 20 scientific fields and 174 subfields from a pool of more than 24 million authors.
The 2026 ranking (DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.9), published on 6 October 2026, takes into account the impact of scientific output indexed exclusively in Scopus and evaluates both recent scientific performance (citations received in 2025) and researchers’ entire academic careers.
The growing number of Roma Tre researchers and professors included in this international ranking is a significant recognition of the value of the
University's research activities which continue to grow and stand out for the quality and impact of its research at international level.

The 2026 Top 2% Most Influential Scientists of Roma Tre University, listed by department, are:
Economics: Francesco Benedetto, Valeria Costantini
Business Studies: Roberto Merli, Ludovica Principato
Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts: Isabella Poggi
Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering: Francesco Bella, Riccardo Borghi, Alessandro Calvi, Roberto Camussi,
Gabriella Cincotti, Andrea D’Ariano, Gianmarco De Felice, Stefano De Santis, Giuseppe Di Battista, Aldo Fiori, Massimo Gennaretti, Dario
Pacciarelli, Claudio Palma, Davide Ramaccia, Marco Sebastiani, Luca Solero
Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering: Gaetano Assanto, Massimiliano Barletta, Nicola Pio Belfiore, Filiberto Bilotti, Alessandra
Caggiano, Patrizio Campisi, Francesco Cappa, Antonio Casimiro Caputo, Paolo Cicconi, Gaetano Giunta, Franco Gori, Emanuele Maiorana, Luigi
Morino, Massimo Santarsiero, Alessandro Neri, Davide Ramaccia e Michele Quercio
Mathematics and Physics: Stefano Bianchi, Giuseppe Degrassi, Vittorio Lubicz, Giorgio Matt, Davide Meloni, Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo
Science: Valerio Acocella, Paolo Ascenzi, Marco Barbieri, Giorgio Bernardi, Marco Alberto Bologna, Pasquale Borrelli, Giulia Caneva, Claudio
Faccenna, Alessandra Di Masi, Fabio Leccese, Maria Marino, Dante Rotili, Enrico Ruzzier, Viviana Trezza, Ion Udroiu, Iole Venditti, Paolo Visca
Education Science: Giuseppe Carrus, Salvatore Ioverno