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The high quality research work produced at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), as well as the international reputation TUC has acquired, have been confirmed once again this year, according to the recent ranking of the bibliometric study by Baas, Boyak, and Ioannidis (2021) of Stanford University published on October 19, 2021 by Elsevier. This ranking, entitled "Data for updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", is announced annually and evaluates the performance of all academics worldwide. Twenty-nine (29) members of the academic staff of the Technical University of Crete (among them 20% of the current faculty members) appear in the ranking lists.

The updated 2021 ranking of the world's top scientists is based on a number of indicators, focusing on the impact of their published work, based on year 2020 or on their overall work, and concerns the evaluation of these indicators for over 8,000,000 scientists worldwide. The broader annual evaluation of the Stanford University team is based on the impact of the published research work and in particular on the citations received by each scientist with at least 5 publications according to the Scopus database.

TUC Academic Staff in Stanford's List

Twenty-two (22) members of the academic staff of the Technical University of Crete are included based on year 2020 in the list of the top 100,000 scientists worldwide, as well as among those who belong to the top 2% worldwide in their scientific area (over 22 scientific fields and 176 subcategories analyzed). These are (in order of ranking):

1. Professor Emeritus Markos Papageorgiou (School of Production Engineering and Management)
2. Professor Dionysia Kolokotsa (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
3. Associate Professor Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
4. Professor Konstantinos Komnitsas (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
5. Professor Despina Vamvouka (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
6. Associate Professor Michalis Konsolakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
7. Professor Konstantinos Zopounidis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
8. Professor Michalis Doumpos (School of Production Engineering and Management)
9. Associate Professor Ioannis Marinakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
10. Professor Evangelos Diamantopoulos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
11. Laboratory Teaching Staff Aristeidis Koutroulis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
12. Assistant Professor Alexandros Stefanakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
13. Professor Konstantinos Chrysikopoulos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
14. Professor Emeritus Nikolaos Kalogerakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
15. Professor Evangelos Grigoroudis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
16. Professor Eleftheria Psillakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
17. Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
18. Professor Petros Gikas (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
19. Associate Professor Fotios Kanellos (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
20. Associate Professor Eftychios Koutroulis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
21. Professor Angelos Bletsas (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
22. Assistant Professor Nikolaos Bekiaris-Lymperis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Additionally, twenty-five (25) members of the TUC academic staff can be found in the list of top researchers based on their total scientific work, 18 of whom are also included in the above list:

1. Professor Emeritus Markos Papageorgiou (School of Production Engineering and Management)
2. Professor Konstantinos Zopounidis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
3. Professor Dionysia Kolokotsa (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
4. Professor Eleftheria Psillakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
5. Professor Despina Vamvouka (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
6. Professor Konstantinos Komnitsas (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
7. Associate Professor Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
8. Professor Angelos Bletsas (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
9. Professor Evangelos Diamantopoulos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
10. Professor Konstantinos Chrysikopoulos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
11. Professor Emeritus Nikolaos Kalogerakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
12. Associate Professor Ioannis Marinakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
13. Associate Professor Michalis Konsolakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
14. Professor Michalis Doumpos (School of Production Engineering and Management)
15. Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
16. Retired Professor Ioannis Tsanis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
17. Professor Ioannis Gentekakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
18. Professor Petros Gikas (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
19. Associate Professor Eftychios Koutroulis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
20. Professor Pagona-Noni Maravelaki (School of Architecture)
21. Professor Evripidis Petrakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
22. Professor Emeritus Ioannis Filis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
23. Professor Emeritus Stavros Christodoulakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
24. Associate Professor Fotios Kanellos (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
25. Professor Emeritus Konstantinos Kalaitzakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

In total, considering both lists, twenty-nine (29) members of the TUC academic staff are included. The Technical University of Crete warmly congratulates the members of its academic staff for this important distinction, which reflects the high level of research work carried out at TUC, and which has contributed to the ranking of the Technical University of Crete among the 800-1000 best universities, according to the World University Rankings (Times Higher Education).