Elsevier, one of the world's largest academic publishers, has released its annual international ranking of the world's most cited researchers. It included nine researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The Hirsch index, the total number of citations, the number of publications, the impact factor of journals, as well as the impact of the researcher's work both over his entire scientific career and over the past year were taken into account to form the ranking. The research is based on the analysis of data from the Scopus bibliographic database.

It is noted that the ranking includes researchers from 20 scientific fields and 174 subcategories. It includes only those researchers whose indices are in the top 2% of a particular area of expertise.

Among the participants of the ranking from Tomsk Polytechnic University are Roman Surmenev, Director of the Research Center "Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials" of the Research School of Chemical and Biomedical Technologies, and Mariya Surmeneva, Lead Researcher at the Research Center "Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials" of the Research School of Chemical and Biomedical Technologies, Shadfar Davoudi, Associate Professor of the Department of Oil and Gas Engineering of the Engineering School of Natural Resources, Geniy Kuznetsov, Professor at the I.N. Butakov Research and Education Center of the TPU School of Energy and Power Engineering, Evgeny Plotnikov, Professor at the Research School of Chemical and Biomedical Technologies, Nikita Martyushev, Associate Professor of the Department of Information Technologies of the Engineering School of Information Technology and Robotics, Pavel Strizhak, Professor at the I.N. Butakov Research and Education Center of the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Dmitry Antonov, Associate Professor at the Research School of High-Energy Process Physics, Al-Shargabi Mohammed Abdulsalam Taha Sallam, Engineer at the Oil and Gas Field Geology Laboratory of the Oil and Gas Training Center at the Engineering School of Natural Resources, and Vladimir Vavilov (posthumously), Head of the "Thermal Control" Research and Production Laboratory of the Center for Industrial Tomography of the Engineering School of Non-Destructive Testing and Safety.