PW researchers in the World’s TOP 2% Scientists 2026

The World’s TOP 2% Scientists ranking comprises two lists. The first covers researchers’ entire careers, while the second is based on bibliometric data for the most recent calendar year (2025). The career-long list includes 76 WUT researchers, ten of whom were not listed in last year’s edition. The single-year list includes 45 researchers, including 11 new PW representatives. Together, the two lists feature 88 individuals, as some appear on both.

Warsaw University of Technology researchers represent a wide range of fields. The largest group is assigned to Engineering (30), followed by Enabling & Strategic Technologies (21), Information & Communication Technologies and Physics & Astronomy (11 each), and Chemistry (10). The ranking also includes researchers publishing in Clinical Medicine (2), Biomedical Research (1), and Earth & Environmental Sciences (1).

Across Poland, the career-long TOP 2% list includes 1,582 researchers from 220 institutions. The single-year ranking includes 1,617 scientists from 232 Polish institutions.

The ranking is based on bibliometric indicators including citation counts, the h-index and the co-authorship-adjusted Schreiber index (hm-index). It also considers a researcher’s position in publications, for example as first or last author. Results across disciplines are compared using the c-score (composite indicator), which combines information on academic output and scientific impact. The ranking covers 20 fields and 174 subfields.

The full ranking is available on the Elsevier website.

PW researchers in the World’s TOP 2% Scientists 2026* (single-year data):

• Prof. Przemysław Biecek, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Oncology & Carcinogenesis)

• Muhammad A. Butt, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Marek G. Gagolewski, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Information & Library Sciences)

• Prof. Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski, PhD (Aerospace & Aeronautics/Optics)

• Prof. Przemysław Grzegorzewski, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Statistics & Probability)

• Anna Herman, PhD (Dairy & Animal Science/Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry)

• Joanna Izdebska-Podsiadły, PhD (Polymers/Optics)

• Prof. Agnieszka Jastrzębska, PhD (Materials/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)

• Prof. Małgorzata J. Kacprzak, PhD (Environmental Sciences/Chemical Engineering)

• Prof. Czesław Kajdas, PhD (Mechanical Engineering & Transports/Materials)

• Artur Kasprzak, PhD (Organic Chemistry/Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry)

• Prof. Marian P. Kaźmierowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Prof. Jan Kindracki, PhD (Aerospace & Aeronautics/Energy)

• Prof. Adam Ryszard Kisiel, PhD (Nuclear & Particle Physics/General Physics)

• Prof. Wojciech M. Knap, PhD (Applied Physics/Networking & Telecommunications)

• Jacek Komorowski, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Prof. Tomasz Kozacki, PhD (Optics/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Prof. Jerzy Krupka, PhD ((Networking & Telecommunications/Applied Physics)

• Prof. Małgorzata Kujawińska, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Krzysztof S. Kulpa, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Geological & Geomatics Engineering)

• Prof. Janusz Lewiński, PhD (Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry/Organic Chemistry)

• Prof. Ryszard Łobiński, PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Environmental Sciences)

• Prof. Maciej Ławryńczuk, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Mohammad Maalandish, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Mateusz Piotr Malanowski, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Prof. Mariusz Malinowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Jacek Mańdziuk, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Operations Research)

• Prof. Wojciech Mazurczyk, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Włodzimierz Ogryczak, PhD (Operations Research/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Stanisław Osowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Kamil Paduszyński, PhD, university professor (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof Patorski, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Jerzy Piotrowski, PhD (Automobile Design & Engineering/Mechanical Engineering & Transports)

• Ryszard Piramidowicz, PhD, university professor (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Ryszard S. Romaniuk, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Nuclear & Particle Physics)

• Prof. Piotr P. Samczyński, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Geological & Geomatics Engineering)

• Agnieszka Siemion, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Networking & Telecommunications)

• Marcin Słoma, PhD (Applied Physics/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Monika Staniszewska, PhD, university professor (Microbiology/Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry)

• Prof. Andrzej I. Stankiewicz, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Physical Chemistry)

• Prof. Halina Szatyłowicz, PhD (Organic Chemistry/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Wojciech Święszkowski, PhD (Biomedical Engineering/Materials)

• Prof. Tomasz P. Trzciński, PhD (Nuclear & Particle Physics/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Sławomir Tumański, PhD (Applied Physics/Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

• Prof. Krzysztof Zboiński, PhD (Automobile Design & Engineering/Logistics & Transportation)

PW researchers in the World’s TOP 2% Scientists 2026* (career-long data):

• Prof. Maria Balcerzak, PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Nutrition & Dietetics)

• Prof. Jerzy Robert Bałdyga, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Materials)

• Prof. Jordi Mongay Batalla, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Przemysław Biecek, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Oncology & Carcinogenesis)

• Prof. Piotr Bilski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Zbigniew Brzózka, PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Muhammad A. Butt, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Dorota A. Chwieduk, PhD (Energy/Environmental Sciences)

• Prof. Tomasz Ciach, PhD (Biomedical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Józef R. Dygas, PhD (Energy/Applied Physics)

• Marek Gągolewski, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Information & Library Sciences)

• Prof. Leon Gradoń, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)

• Prof. Przemysław Grzegorzewski, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Statistics & Probability)

• Anna Herman, PhD (Dairy & Animal Science/Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry)

• Prof. Grzegorz Iwański, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Krzysztof Jemielniak, PhD (Industrial Engineering & Automation/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Małgorzata J. Kacprzak, PhD (Environmental Sciences/Chemical Engineering)

• Prof. Czesław K. Kajdas, PhD (Mechanical Engineering & Transports/Materials)

• Prof. Mirosław A. Karpierz, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Marian P. Kaźmierowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Prof. Jan Kindracki, PhD (Aerospace & Aeronautics/Energy)

• Prof. Adam Ryszard Kisiel, PhD (Nuclear & Particle Physics/General Physics)

• Prof. Wojciech M. Knap, PhD (Applied Physics/Networking & Telecommunications)

• Prof. Andrzej Kołodziejczyk, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Tomasz Kozacki, PhD (Optics/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Marta Królikowska, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Marek Królikowski, PhD, university professor (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Jerzy Krupka, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Applied Physics)

• Prof. Marzena Kryszkiewicz, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Computation Theory & Mathematics)

• Prof. Małgorzata Kujawińska, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Tadeusz Kulik, PhD (Materials/Applied Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof S. Kulpa, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Geological & Geomatics Engineering)

• Prof. Małgorzata Lewandowska, PhD (Materials/Applied Physics)

• Prof. Janusz Lewiński, PhD (Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry/Organic Chemistry)

• Prof. Tomasz Lewiński, PhD (Mechanical Engineering & Transports/Design Practice & Management)

• Prof. Ryszard Łobiński, PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Environmental Sciences)

• Prof. Maciej Ławryńczuk, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Prof. Mateusz Piotr Malanowski, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Optoelectronics & Photonics)

• Prof. Elżbieta Malinowska, PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Energy)

• Prof. Mariusz Malinowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Jacek Mańdziuk, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/Operations Research)

• Andrzej Marciniak, PhD, university professor (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Wojciech Mazurczyk, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Jarosław Milewski, PhD (Energy/Mechanical Engineering & Transports)

• Prof. Roman Z. Morawski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Education)

• Prof. Włodzimierz Ogryczak, PhD (Operations Research/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Andrzej J. Osiadacz, PhD (Energy/Industrial Engineering & Automation)

• Prof. Stanisław Osowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Kamil Paduszyński, PhD, university professor (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof Patorski, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Jerzy Piotrowski, PhD (Automobile Design & Engineering/Mechanical Engineering & Transports)

• Prof. Ryszard Pohorecki, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Physical Chemistry)

• Prof. Marek Potemski, PhD (Applied Physics/General Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof T. Poźniak, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Nuclear & Particle Physics)

• Prof. Adam B. Proń, PhD (Applied Physics/Polymers)

• Prof. Jacek Rąbkowski, PhD (Electrical & Electronic Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Gabriel Rokicki, PhD (Polymers/Chemical Engineering)

• Prof. Ryszard S. Romaniuk, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Nuclear & Particle Physics)

• Prof. Piotr P. Samczyński, PhD (Networking & Telecommunications/Geological & Geomatics Engineering)

• Prof. Stanisław Sieniutycz, PhD (Mechanical Engineering & Transports/Energy)

• Prof. Robert Sitnik, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing)

• Prof. Jacek Skorupski, PhD (Strategic, Defence & Security Studies/Logistics & Transportation)

• Prof. Thomas Skotnicki, PhD (Applied Physics/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)

• Prof. Tomasz Robert Sosnowski, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Andrzej I. Stankiewicz, PhD (Chemical Engineering/Physical Chemistry)

• Grzegorz Stępniak, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Networking & Telecommunications)

• Prof. Roman Szewczyk, PhD (Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing/General Physics)

• Prof. Wojciech Święszkowski, PhD (Biomedical Engineering/Materials)

• Prof. Sławomir Tumański, PhD (Applied Physics/Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

• Prof. Jarosław P. Turkiewicz, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Optics)

• Prof. Klass Roel Westerterp (Chemical Engineering/Energy)

• Prof. Władysław G. Wieczorek, PhD (Energy/Chemical Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof Wilczyński, PhD (Polymers/Materials)

• Prof. Tomasz R. Woliński, PhD (Optoelectronics & Photonics/Applied Physics)

• Prof. Krzysztof Zboiński, PhD (Automobile Design & Engineering/Logistics & Transportation)

• Prof. Jerzy Zieliński, PhD (Physical Chemistry/General Chemistry)

* The terms in brackets indicate the fields in which the listed researchers were most frequently cited.